Ehab Allam on Blunderside last night.

Am I just a peasant who went to a public school? Went to Sydney Smith for a couple of years then went to Hessle High (surprisingly my grades dropped after I moved FROM Syd :s).

I didn't do any sports at school. Mainly because I knew I wasn't very good and other reason being I didn't like many of the people there . I've played football with Danny East twice and was in the same year as townsend or whatever his name is (I knew him as Connor Elliot)

 

I know it makes no sense but the term public school actually refers to one which is private, such as Hymers or Collegiate.

You're welcome.

 

My husband says that he went in those same years and you must have gone on to 6th form so must have known him.Binks was a year or so before him too. Puzzled though by your house name as their were 4 houses during his stay. Humber, Faraday, Kingston and Newton and no Trent. Names in his 6th form Yates( head boy) Nicholls, Kershaw, Walker.
Yates went on to Hull University and got a 1st in Chemistry. Also a guy called Wright who ended up as a Prison officer. My husband went on to Hull Tech College and then London University.

 

Well the Aussies do make sense.Here If you go to a Government school you are in the Public education sytem and if you are in the Private system you pay for the education.After living in the UK and my mum being a School teacher there took me a long time here to remember that public is Government!

 

It's a small world. Your husband is absolutely correct. A slip of the finger (or senility). I was in Newton House. Trent House was where I worked in Derby at the BR Technical Centre some years later. I was in the same group as listed ( Initials CT), but can't remember any other names. Still swop Christmas cards with Colin Brown (a year after us), Barrie Nicholls and Dave Kershaw's widow. Dave passed away about 3 or 4 years ago.

 

That is remarkable. He was in Newton too.Now desparately looking for old Photo's taken of the sixth form. His initials are JAF but he had a nickname of his surname. He had an arch enemy in a guy called Barry? Rosindale ending up in a fight in the gym.He was in the A stream with Nicholls and Kershaw. Rosindale came from 5 M.He played in Pikes U15s and had a trial with Hull City boys. Pike said he was too small!

He went on the first RHS overseas trip to Germany as a prefect with Yates and Kershaw in 1955. At a place called Ingolstadt he was locked out of the hostel with one of them when he returned after curfew. Evidently girls were involved! They spent the night near an Autobahn. He submitted an article for the school magazine detailing that night but it was rejected!

TigerRoo was a year behind and left after 5 G. Last year when we went back to Hull ater 25 years he unsuccessfully searched for his old Riley classmates. You are the very first he has encountered since he left Hull in 1969 so stick around!!

 

Altered that from 1969 to 1959. Sorry for the error.

 

Not sure if it worked, but I sent a private message with e-mail address. Unfortunately I am not the worlds best at this modern technology.

 

Dunno if there's anyone on here who did also - but I was at Hull Grammar from 1954 - 1959.

 

did you know the void? i need some recordings.

 

probably a dinner lady..

 

I went to Hull Trinity House for 3 years, our teams weren't much kop at sports apart from sailing & rowing! We used to have some edgy moments on the buses with eyemaz lads.. Trinity isn't a public school, you have to pass an exam and interviews but don't pay for tuition, it's more of a Dartmouth prep school.. I left at 16 and went to Hornsea 6th form where my performances dropped like a stone.. there was no discipline and i spent all my time playing golf at Brandesburton..

 

Message received and have seen a photo of you at RHS in 1954! Will now leave the thread.

 

This hasn't aged well.

 

.... and then they discovered Friends Reunited?

 

The Allams have friends?

 

Well they have one, Grant McCann , the only people stupid enough to give him a job

 

There wasn't much love lost to say the least between my old school, South Hunsley, and Wolfreton when we played them at football and cricket. Didn't particularly get on well with Hessle for cricket either. The real thugs were Goole Grammar however, kicked off more than once.