August 2024 From the author’s desk…
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THE FIRST JOB INTERVIEW… Only after he had left the train and was standing at the bus stop outside Victoria Station did Ian begin to fret. Even though the school…
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July 2024 From the author’s desk…
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THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF UNIVERSITY SIXTY YEARS AGO… Ian gently laid his beloved Raleigh bicycle, gear side up, on the gravel to the left of the front doors of Widcombe House,…
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From the author’s desk… The late, great queen mother… ‘It now gives me great pleasure to declare this magnificent new classroom annexe, built for the Hope Venture by the boys…
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The Coronation, no not last year but the one before in 1953… Ruth had secured two seats in the hospital lounge where Uncle Isaac used to work – she had…