The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Loanranger

My school's noted alumni lists nine former pupils, one of whom turns out to be my brother. Blimey. He has two sets of honours, the sort you get from going up to the palace not from a university.
Another is a very famous personage, my year, and another was a member of a worldwide famous pop band though they probably prefer a more pretentious label! Actually, I think that's incorrect...that person went to another school not ours. Will check that.

Pyxis

Had a look at my school's wiki page.

Only one 'notable', ever!, a philosophy writer, never heard of her, and way before my time, so that's that.

silvercar

DS2's school has no notable's, probably as it only opened in 1990.

DS1's has 11 notable past pupils - a lot easier when you were established in 1573!

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

DS1's has 11 notable past pupils - a lot easier when you were established in 1573!

But my sixth form gets more into oxbridge - or be it from a much larger pool of six formers (and appears to be famous for it). My Secondary has no famous alumni....

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

...Channel...

Yes...stood in the garden overlooking the ocean when planes flew in and chewed up the grass with their bullets! (Not for long obviously ... you only stay until you realise what's happening!)

GDB2222

One of the great things about Wikipedia is that you can edit it yourself. If your old school listing has unaccountably omitted your name from the list of notable former pupils, it is easy to remedy.

Looking at my old school listing it has indeed omitted my name. Sensible people running Wikipedia!

I did learn though that TS Eliot taught there for a year, about 50 years before my time. It was a miserable school, and I can well understand that it might have inspired The Waste Land. All the critics trying to fathom the meaning of "April is the cruellest month of all" have entirely missed the simple point that it was the start of the summer term and he was dreading going back to work.

PasturesNew

I used to laugh ... how you do.

My friend's dad was a teacher at the school (pompous twit he was).... my friend was the school slapper.

Her dad was a biology teacher.
She got up the duff.
His next job title was Head of Reprographics.
I found this amusing.
She pumped out six kids in the end I think.... to the usual clutch of 2-3 fathers.

The local authority website for that county is "good" in that the records are up to date and detailed.... so I can easily look up if people got married ... and remarried as the records display past names of divorced women remarrying. That helps with "stalking" people you went to school with, or randomly remember the names of and wonder what happened to them. I can see she married in 1979 and again in 1988.

OMG ...and I just googled her latest married name - and the Internet provided me instantly with a colour photo of her! I can still recognise her, but by god she looks old. Do I look that old? Blimey. She works on the tills at a village Co-Op.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

I did learn though that TS Eliot taught there for a year, about 50 years before my time. It was a miserable school, and I can well understand that it might have inspired The Waste Land. All the critics trying to fathom the meaning of "April is the cruellest month of all" have entirely missed the simple point that it was the start of the summer term and he was dreading going back to work.

:rotfl::rotfl:
:T:T

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I used to laugh ... how you do.

My friend's dad was a teacher at the school (pompous twit he was).... my friend was the school slapper.

Her dad was a biology teacher.
She got up the duff.
His next job title was Head of Reprographics.
I found this amusing.
She pumped out six kids in the end I think.... to the usual clutch of 2-3 fathers.

Do you mean he was in charge of the photocopier? :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Did anybody else have school houses? Where teachers lived?

My junior school was built in 71/72 and at the entrance driveway there was a caretaker's house.

My secondary school was built ~1940 - Grade I listed just because the designer was "a regarded architect with a vision". It was built with a row of houses, possibly 3 terraced houses, 2 flats and a detached house - for teachers - and at the start of that was an old "gatehouse" where the caretaker lived - this was a retained (17th/18th century) old feature from the original wall enclosing the manor house that donated the land for a school.

When I met "my friend" in the mid-70s she was living in one of the teacher houses - and her parents are still there! They had a 4-bed end of terrace one as she had 3 brothers.