Ed Halsted (1960-1963)...

Edward Halsted has been in touch, and we've had several chats online recently!

A click on the link below shows an impressive career in theatre, film and TV, and there are too many recognisable titles to write here! The link at the bottom can be cut 'n pasted for everything!

Ed says that he's unable to get to Sedlescombe in a couple of weeks time, but of course the invitation is still open to anyone coming along to the Queens!

Hi Mike 

I've just come upon your old boy blog so thought I'd say hello. We must have been at the school at the same time - I was there from 1960 to 1963 I think. It was good to scroll through the posts and photos; a few faces and rather more names were familiar. 

I came back for a reunion a year or two after leaving and, then, stopped off in 1975(?) when I was working locally to find the place deserted. The doors were open so I walked round the house and grounds and met a few ghosts. 

I haven't met any contemporaries since apart from a chap called Davis who came up to say hello after a show I was in. (Have been an actor after university and drama school since 1974.) I won't wait another 58 years to google the school. 

Thanks for putting up the site - Hope you are keeping well while the plague is with us. 

Yours Edward Halsted 

edward.halsted@gmail.com 

Spotlight Link:http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1933-9053-8506

(I got back to him, then...)

Hello again - Many thanks for your speedy reply. 

Touched by your memories of me and my immortality via the army station! In fact, I think I had rather a low profile due to the combination of Brodribb's enthusiasm for sports and my hopelessness at all of them. 

Even my job as scorer for the cricket 1st 11 was unglorious - Seem to remember never getting the numbers to add up! I did go on to Bryanston (how did you work that out?) but no one from Hydneye came too. Had a very good time there. Then law and Sociology at Exeter meaning to become a barrister. Sadly, half way through the first law lecture I realised my mistake!

Don't have any photos to add to the site's collection. Do feel free to put my letter up if that would be suitable.

Best wishes. I live in London. Perhaps we can meet some time....

Ed

(Ed, I've left off your phone numbers, but can put them up if you want - Mike)!

ps, the link will have to be a cut and paste - the swap from the email somehow wouldn't let me copy it as a proper link! Apols too, for the formatting, it's been a bit of a b****r to transpose, hence the rather attractive type...