There's one in New Zealand too!
procession in Ashburton
John Oakford in New Zealand
Any takers??
The College atop Wolborough Hill.......
© Derek Beavis. "Newton Abbot. Britain in Old Photographs"
..........and again
© Stapleton Road & Flickr.com
Top of the steps
Picture courtesy of Alan Tuppen
The end of the long haul to school
© Copyright Robin Stott
Bakers Park, where we played rugby, soccer
and cricket
© Copyright Gwen and James Anderson
The cooling tower in the 1960s
© Getty Images
The end of a landmark
© Derek Beavis. "Newton Abbot. Britain in Old Photographs"
The old Penn Inn swiming pool, now gone to
make way for a supermarket.....and here it is
below!
St. Mary's Church, Wolborough - well known
to the C of E boys no doubt
2 comments:
HAVE HAPPY MEMORIES OF TEACHING IN ASHBURTON COLLEGE NEWTON ABBOT CIRCA 1957/58. COACHED RUGBY TEAM CAPT BRYANT WHICH WAS QUITE HANDY. NAMES THAT COME TO MIND COLIN SNELL IAN WEBBER RHYS DAVEY JOCK LESSELLS HELSTON ADRIAN MCGURRAN PATEY CHESSUM G. JOHNSTON . ATTENDED OLD BOYS REUNION DINNER DANCE IN QUEENS HOTEL WITH MY
THEN GIRLFRIEND NOW WIFE OF 54 YEARS. SHE WAS THEN A STAFF NURSE AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL
RETURNED TO IRELANDTO A CAREER IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT WITH A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER. RETIRED IN 1999. WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ANY COMMENTS IF ANYONE CARES TO REMEMBER.
Amazing that I have only just discovered this forum. I was a day pupil at that school in about 1948. I lived with my parents in Old Totnes Road, Wolborough. I remember in the winter our classroom was freezing with just one solid fuel stove for heating. The boarders were on good terms with the cook and often scrounged some buttered bread which we used to make french toast using a pencil as a toasting fork to hold the bread in the open doors of the stove. I can still remember the smell of bread, butter, coal smoke and burned pencil! Thanks for the memory!
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