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Post by jerry on Oct 21, 2009 19:34:10 GMT
I was demoted (thrown out of) Laird's French and into Pince's. I was just the opposite! Moved from Pince's up into Laird's for a term so he could "keep an eye on me"! Behaved myself for a few months so I got sent back to Pince where I could mess about to my hearts content! Astonishingly I got an A in my French GCSE even though I was utterly dreadful at it! I'm pretty sure they mixed my paper up with someone elses, so apologies to any French wizzes out there who can't understand the E they got!  Oh, and I was in the same year as Darryl and Andy "Stepho" Stephens (83-88). |
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Post by bigstupot61 on Oct 22, 2009 8:52:38 GMT
Hello to all of you mad sods! Lovely to be amongst you all. I'm Stu late of TBGS 72-78 and until recently former bass player in the schools premier punk combo Das Schnitz. As some of you may know we recently reformed for a gig at the 12 Bar Club in London. Original line up and all. Tim Dodge (vocals), Kev Perry (drums),Nadi Jahangiri (guitar) and me, Stu Gordon (bass).It was a blast and a clip from the gig is on Youtube. I was in 1B and Pitman house, played footy and rugby for the school in the early years. A big hello to chris, chris and Roger, I remember getting leggless in a pub on Wembley high Street with chris and roger prior to the playoff final against Colchester, don't remember much of the game or the coach home to the North East, c'est la vie!
Best wishes to all of you
(and that's me on the 72 photo, top pic 2nd from left with the blond locks)
Stu
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Post by bigstupot61 on Oct 22, 2009 9:07:05 GMT
Oh Yeah as I said I was in the first year footy team (left wing) I wasn't left footed but there were no others up for the position! I seem to have been forgotten on that list I don't think im Fuller was a regular on the team, sorry Tim.
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Post by bigstupot61 on Oct 22, 2009 11:17:11 GMT
my best guess at 1st yr team 72-73 is as follows......... J.shaw G/K J.Ronald, R. French (fullbacks) m. Treaise, J. Cornford (capt.) (Midfield) A. Fitzgerald (R.Wing), S. Gordon( L. Wing), S.Cowan, P. Percy and K. Bowditch (strikers)
appologies if I've left anyone out.
Stu
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Post by bigstupot61 on Oct 22, 2009 12:17:54 GMT
ooh! just had another thought, there was a lad called Rob Jones who played in goal. He left the school in the second year I think. I can't remember if he was in goal before Jon Shaw or after!
Stu
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Post by andygulls on Oct 22, 2009 19:11:21 GMT
Good to hear from you Stu
Please pass on my regards to Tim Dodge when you next see him.
Cheers
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Post by crispygull on Oct 23, 2009 10:08:30 GMT
A big hello to chris, chris and Roger, I remember getting leggless in a pub on Wembley high Street with chris and roger prior to the playoff final against Colchester, don't remember much of the game or the coach home to the North East, c'est la vie! Stu Hi Stu Chris Pascoe here, good to hear from you. Thanks for putting me right on the Wembley meet up ... you see I had it down as this.... The last (and probably only time since I left school) I saw Stuart Gordon was funnily enough in a pub near Wembley Stadium. He was there for (at least I think it was) our first appearance at Wembley - in the Sherpa Van Trophy Final against Bolton. I mnanaged to share a couple of beers with him, before heading our separate ways. I'm sure you're right it was the Colchester game, and there were probably more than a couple of beers involved! I guess it comes with having been to Wembley so many times with TUFC! .... and a few too many  no doubt! Some great footage (found by Chris D aka Mr W) of you guys at your reunion gig. Great to see that you are all still rockin after all these years and all looking remarkably trim for your 48 years! Surely it must be time for a "homecoming" gig for Das Schnitz? I believe Muse went down quite well when they performed at Teignmouth recently .... |
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Post by bigstupot61 on Oct 26, 2009 13:20:30 GMT
Thanks guys, we'll definitely try and put something together for next year. Watch this space!
Stu
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 11:21:26 GMT
I've been looking at Agatha Christie's Devon written by Bret Hawthorne, a one-time TGBS pupil. Apparently the Queen of Crime had little time for the old school because it buggered up her view of the sea when it was built. The map below shows Ashfield - the house in which she grew up -to the north of the old grammar school site on Barton Road. Barton Road is the NW-SE diagonal in the bottom left-hand coner with Oakhill Road heading off in a NE direction across the map. The U-shaped road at the top is St Vincent's Road.  Was there ever a Murder at the Grammar School Christie novel? Who would have done it? Which boy? Which master? And the victim? No, no....better not go there. |
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Post by bigstupot61 on Nov 1, 2009 13:04:55 GMT
My money is on Percy Bothwell in his stealth velcro fastened slippers!
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Post by Mr_W on Nov 2, 2009 15:52:30 GMT
My money is on Percy Bothwell in his stealth velcro fastened slippers! Hi Stu ........Chris Donovan here (Sep 72 (1C) entry at TBGS) - great to see ya on here and thanks so much for the communication on Friends Reunited as well - hey mate - I KNEW someone on here would remember Percy Bothwell (even though I typed it as Boswell further back - Dur me!) - wasn't he as mad as a bag of badgers - I seem to recall he taught Latin - or was it maybe Maths - I certainly recall him standing in for Mr Kay in the Library once - as did young (Peter George Alfred?) Telford - think those were HIS names - a young Maths protege I think - wasn't he put in for his A Level Maths at 12 or something??..... .......oh btw sorry to leave ya out the line-up in footy mate - seems like my memory is as bad as my Physics was in the last two years - Tim, Jim Bailey and me were ahem "relegated" to the back bench of the Physics Lecture Room/Lab classes and spent the periods compiling rock music top twenty guitarists lists/crosswords and discussing Camel and Sabbs albums (and probably the rest of the Flox Records stock in Fleet Street!) along with motorbikes - better than bleddy Ohms Law of whatever anyway........ ........anyone recall Tracy Cass? - he was a good footy player as well - joined RAF??..... ....1B's form-master - Room 2 - was it Mr Eeles perchance Stu?......... ........re: Das Schnitz "LOCAL TORBAY Re-union Gig 2010" - there, I've started the publicity drive on it already! - any chance of it AT the TBGS maybe??? - reckon we could get poss 9/10 plus of us from 1A/B/C etc at the gig with a combination of on here and on Friends Reunited! - will watch this space/Friends Reunited with interest Stu!.................... ......please pass on my regards to Tim and Nadi, also Kev if you speak soon!........ ....yours in rock n roll n great memories... ...take care mate!...... Chris Donovan Gosport Hampshire |
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Post by Mr_W on Nov 3, 2009 0:54:42 GMT
Mr W, Although most of this means nothin to me and i'm 26 and an ex Bible bashing Cuthbert Mayner, I noticed the name Anthony Bennett I think this may have been my Uncle! Did he have a younger brother named Michael? If it was I will expand more on my next post. Andy Bennett Hi Andy The Anthony Bennett I knew had Scott as his middle name and a younger sister called Joanne - not sure on a younger brother to be honest - they lived in Melville Street just off Abbey Road in Torquay and he attended Abbey Road RC Primary (he was NOT RC though I seem to recall) then TBGS - from 1966-72 Abbey Road then 1972-77/8 at TBGS - he would be 49 this Dec I think...... maybe this helps? Cheers Chris Donovan aka Mr_W |
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Post by papalazarou on Nov 3, 2009 11:29:57 GMT
Thanks for the reply Mr_W but not the same Anthony Bennett. My Uncle was definitely RC as he went onto be a priest in Poole then Sacred Heart in Paignton which was a stones throw from where my Grandparents (on my fathers side) lived. Unfortunately approx 10-15 years ago he died of a brain tumor, he was a great man who was very dedicated to his parishioners.
Andy Bennett
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2009 12:43:50 GMT
Thanks for the reply Mr_W but not the same Anthony Bennett. My Uncle was definitely RC as he went onto be a priest in Poole then Sacred Heart in Paignton which was a stones throw from where my Grandparents (on my fathers side) lived. Unfortunately approx 10-15 years ago he died of a brain tumor, he was a great man who was very dedicated to his parishioners. Andy Bennett There was a Anthony Bennett in my year - he'd now be 53 coming up 54 - from the RC primary school in Paignton. We had a Bennett KD and a Bennett AD in that rather formal manner of the times. Another lad from that school - an Argyle-supporting crypto-skinhead - was with us for a short while and I think he's now the bloke who runs the tennis school at Oldway. His presence certainly added spice to the football talk of the time. |
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Post by Mr_W on Nov 4, 2009 0:40:47 GMT
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...........oh dear - I felt quite emotional when these turned up on a recent Google Image Search........