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Hello readers,
The search is on for notables for inclusion in the School Encyclopedia entry on Wikipedia. The criteria is simple, academic qualifications relating to professions that contribute to science, culture or education etc. Personalities, musicians or elected members of government bodies that have reference information in the public domain.

I have already included 5 former pupils, some were known to me at school. Does anyone who reads these informative pages have any points of reference for me to pursue? (I`m getting bored with winter already....ha ha.)

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Yer that Francis!

just what do constitute an "alumnus". How famous do he ave to be? We'm alle alumnuses of some sort..bissn't us? Wots yer threshold as they do say?

Prblem ys we'm too polite to offer arselves bain'tus eh'.

Bless e frealle yer ard works.

W

PS stilited dialect to show I haven't lostme roots even if I am now very very important indeed....Parrotty has recently re-elected me as her friend for the 22nd year running. (for instance) Ooohh! and I'm Vice President (elect) of The Ipswich Society ....in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king..as they do say.

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Hi all.
Sorry I can't help with your research for notorieties from the Old School, Bill.
I think I have pursued most lines during past missives, but if anything more creeps into my forgetful cranium I will happily share with you.
You can take some comfort in the fact that 'Larkrise to Candleford' is on tonight and you will be able to appreciate the fine acting of a certain lady.
Nice to hear that you've been elected as  one of Parrotty's friends again this new year, Chris. I guess the family ailments upset the Christmas for you all, shame! However Easter is just around the corner and that could be a good reason to see them all again. I expect the children will have recovered completely by then or at least be well enough to force down an egg or two.
Have fun.
Sticky.

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Hello Chris , John,
There is fame to be found in all who study to broaden the mind .. including Parrots. I really think that nomination by a feathered friend is taking it a bit too far, unless of course we are talking certain "Feather Boa" clad females of our species.

Chris, I`m pleased to see that your sence of humour has not left you, despite all the lack of attention from your good Lady at Christmas.  (I like your new accent by the way, do you do lessons?).

John, I hope the driveway is now passable with the tractor again, and that you and your family eventually enjoyed the break from work. I have perused past postings for possible persons pertianing to prominant positions in public life, but I`m getting a bit "peed" off at the lack of public notarirty among past pupils pertianing to our postumous place of education. 

Regards.

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Dear William me Cocker

Parrotty exceedingly  (x-seedingly) upset that her recommendation counts for nothing!!!!

Pity Sir B Lovell isn't with us any more he might have recommended me.

Dialect was my original Keynsham lingua franca until it was beaten out of me by ridicule and the need to "get on" and be a contender for an Alumnus. After all my father knew Acker Bilks dad from "down the Weslyan". (High Street Keynsham)

Aahhhh, but theem be rrroit tho Willumm. they lezzons moite be me vortune yff oi kin korrnerr th' marrket. (meerrkatt)

"Talk they Keynshumm an make yerrr vortune loiok that therr 'Orace Batchelorrrrr"...bless'un."

zend £200 verrr th CD an thatt an theem ull be talkynn loik a native in 6 weeks!!!!! Garrranteed!

Oi be a buggerrrin off verrr now

Lorrr'bless 'e an thine

W 'O Keynshumm

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Hello Chris, there is a`stille tyme 4 E.. he is still with us , aged 97 years young. A lot of his interviews are on the Internet . (See the links I posted). Regards.

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I am still working on my Baaaath Spaaaa accent! Cannot help with fame & fortune. Who's Who might offer ideas but a list of names of old pupils would be needed. I once pulled my car over in Hartham Lane to let Camilla (then Parker-Bowles), who lived near Pickwick, ride by on her horse. I got a frosty smile. Does that make me famous?

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Well to kick Steve's idea off (if not into the long grass) here goes:

31 years ago I took up my first teaching post in a very straight laced Cof E comprehensive.  At that time I was a member of a Drama group who were recruited by the Shoestring production team to work as standins during an August shoot in the Wye Valley.  We were assigned a number of roles over the two days, playing the leering clientele in a Bristol strip club (aka the function room at the back of the Swan Hotel in Monmouth) and heavy drinkers in a country pub.  The director was very keen on closeups and long tracking shots.  Yours truly was immortalised, rather too closely, in several of these scenes. Later my Head was seriously anxious to clarify how it was that I appeared lacivious and drunk on national television.  He had already briefly entertained doubts about my extra-curricular activities (which included photography) when he spotted publicity for an photographic exhibition centred around naked young ladies decorating parts of the Malvern Hills taken by another Mike Hallett - if only.......   

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Graham, for me the definitive pronunciation for a place, is that spoken by its station announcer.  Or it was until recently.  In Hereford, Arriva Trains have employed a very posh actor to record many of the standard announcements and as a result the former fruity and impromptu efforts of station staff are now lost to all but those of us who remember the haphazard and somewhat stumbling approach of a generation ago.

"Baaath Spa Baaath Spa" 50 years ago was delivered in nasal tones over the station Tannoy celebrating the arrival of yet another train to our fair city. (Having spent more time than was good for me trainspotting at the station I can confirm that the delivery was flawless in its consistency!) Nothing unusual you say but my wife, a Mancunian, still, after 35 years of living in the area persists in referring to the city using that very shortened and flattened A so beloved of our norther breatheren.

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Hi All, Good luck with the kitchen Stu !! DIY and I are not the best of friends, I'm good at ripping out but very slow at putting it all back together again. Having said that I did prime all the wood in the small bedroom on Sunday, 6 months after I stripped it !! My only couple of minutes of fame would have been in the musical days when we did 2 live Radio One Clubs as guest group and another when we were interviewed by Emperor Rosko. Apart from New faces, 3 singles and many "live" radio One shows that was it. Oh, does representing Bath Rugby at schoolboy level count ? I can't recall anything else of any merit. Hope you are all suitably recovered from the Christmas "Festivities" and are all back in normal land now !! Rich

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Hi all.
Deepest sympathy regarding the kitchen, Stu. DIY is OK I s'pose but the problem is that it keeps you from doing all the things that you would much sooner be doing, but not nearly as essential according to 'er indoors.
After reading the postings by you guys I feel that I have missed the boat somehow, I've no claim to fame at all, never been on the radio, telly or met anyone famous that I can recall. Further more, I can not recall anyone famous associating themselves with the school or anyone from the revered seat of learning becoming well known for anything except causing trouble. Maybe my view has become jaded over the years, but I really can not think of any claim to fame at all.
Have fun.
Sticky.

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Thank goodness I was never the best at DIY. Now brother does the electrics (has his own electrical business), brother-in-law the carpentry (was a HND carpenter & joiner occupational therapist at Bath City Council's Green Park - woodwork for mental patients - even me!!) and nephew-in-law the painting & decorating (one daughter runs Farrow & Ball in Clifton). When the kitchen was done last year I had urgent book 'writing' to do!!! Not famous but happy! Perhaps keeping a family in relative comfort and indulging in mad hobbies is a characteristic of the Tech? If so "Didn't we do well?"

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Hello Graham, et al on this lovely crisp winters day. Yes, we did do well, I guess we all (most) survived the rigours that life, (and the wife) threw at us over the years, ( sometimes round the `ears). I`ll stop now, as this is becoming like "rhyming slang".

Just an update or two:- Anth Eccles is still backwards and forwards to the hospital with the wife: They keep on insisting he can`t leave her there !. He`s been keeping busy posting all and sundry on Wikimapia. I, on the other hand, have been updating and upgrading our article on Wikipedia about the old school. It`s pretty concise know, I`ve gone back to 1832, before the state education acts were put in place. Have also linked the other schools that were started off in the 1892-6 era, including some girls schools !, shame I couldn`t find any spares to post on here as an aside eh?

This is getting silly, I think I`n suffering with keyboard fatigue and a sore ass, (posteria, not donkey) so off I go, back to  the wife in the lounge. Mother-in-law joining us for lunch and dinner tomorrow, oh what joy!. Regards to all.

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Francis, I hope that you survived mother-in-law at the weekend and that the 'donkey' is recovered too?Also hope that Anth's Missus is doing okay. One daughter has just accepted a job at the RUH as a specialist diabetes sister for 3 days a week (she is a district nurse in good old Oldfield Park at present) so no doubt we will hear the latest politics of the doomed NHS Trusts.
I am most impressed with the Wiki... entry you have done. Minnikin would be proud of your historical research skills. By gum I never realised that the history of the Tech was so complex. I was annoyed that my brother-in-law's mum once loaned me a bound copy of the Bath Chronicle c.1895. It had some great images of the inside of Weymouth House. I am sure some of the desks then were still in Killer's classroom (to the left- going out of the main rear entrance to the playground on the ground floor). One collapsed on Richard Brown. The cast iron sides fell inwards!! That was the end of them. Some very cheap desks with hardboard panels (I can smell them now!) turned up. Brother-in-law denies all knowledge (but the b****r says the same about my brother's electric railway set that he was 'storing' in his attic. Did he flog them?)
Keep up the good work, and the poetry!

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Sir Graham,

I looked again, at your last reply,
Something there, hath caught mine eye,
A mention of some, poetry, ..what me?
reveal good sir, where does it reside?
So I may off, and make it hide.

'twas maybe, a little fantasy,
left in the past , for all to see.
The parchment, I used was very thin,
and mine ink, would not sink in,
altho' in brighness, it doth not fade,
but lingers there, where I hath laid,

The article, 'tis fair, but regally grand,
With so much hope, for long to stand,
'twas not all made, with mine own hand,
But part from book, by other hands.
The person who, and if might please,
Created, ... by one Malcolm Jefferies.

Sir Eccles he did, type much of it out,
to make it strong, and really stout,
a man with axe, did damage it,
But 'twas rebuilt, as we saw fit,
it doth languish there, for all to see,
with hope: ... for an eternity.

We are but dots , upon a page,
with life, we all but do engage,
and here we wait, like some old sage,
our hopes, most  plain, for all to gauge,
what future comes, we will not see,
but here and now, our minds are free.

I tarry long, in this fair city,
to place it here, this lone short ditty,
I bid thee good day, I must be off,
and stick mine head, into the trough,
farewell from me, and much I hope,
Thou dost not play with too much rope!

F.E.W.

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Bravo! Bravo! Encore!!!

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Is that the late Michael Jackson "Bad", Stu? .... or do you mean really, really, ..bad?

I case my rest, (as in snooker). Ha Ha 

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