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Welcome David Hough
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Hello David, and welcome.
I hope you enjoy the site and read some of the old posts, you can
look at old photos and notes by clicking on skydrive on the left hand
menu, by the way feel free to add any old photos that you may have to
any of the folders there, you also have your own online storage space
again called skydrive but this is accessed from the top menu bar under
the dropdown menu "MORE" in there you can create and store up to 25 gigs
of files, these can be private or public or both depending on how
you set your preferences, anyway enjoy the site and I hope you contact
someone you knew at the Tech.
This is what David wrote on his application to join this site:- "I
am a former pupil of CBTS. Name: David Hough Years: 1956 to 1960"
Nov. 8, 2009
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Hi David, and welcome from me as well. Please join
in with our ramblings, the current topic seems to be custard, personally
I think Lanham's prolonging the agony, you know how it is with these
youngsters, they will ramble on about inconsequentialities, WOW ! that's
a big word I think I'll go and lie down now.
Stu
Nov. 8, 2009
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Welcome David, It's a pleasure to have to with us.
The custard business is not of my making young Stickler !! As I recall
it was Chocolate Sponge and Pink Blancmange which we called carpet. I
can see it now !!
Have a good look around David, I hope you enjoy the site.
Rich
Nov. 8, 2009
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Hi David.
I'd like to echo the welcome extended by the rest of the guys. Enjoy the site, that's what it's all about.
I say Rich L's innocent, he was talking about pink custard and choccy sponge, just like he says yer honour, honest!!
Have fun.
John.
Nov. 8, 2009
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Thanks for the welcome, guys. I'll take my time ambling through the chat threads.
Nov. 9, 2009
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Hi David and welcome to the site, I believe you were a
member on the old MSN site under the name of the Professor or I may be
wrong ,either way enjoy the site.
Nov. 9, 2009
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Yes, that was me, Anthony. I was enjoying reading
about people's school experiences and then something happened to my
computer (as if often the case) and I just couldn't get into the
site. Absolutely locked out by a piece of twisted machinery! I found
this site purely by accident. My memories of CBTS go back to Weymouth
House. Last weekend I drove up to Bath with my family (I live in Dorset)
and showed them where the old building used to stand before it was
pulled down. I don't suppose they'd be allowed to do that to an old
building today but that was the sixties for you. I was pleased to see
the bottom end of the town is being stripped of its sixties
architecture.
Nov. 9, 2009
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Hi David and welcome back, I am suprised that you found
us by accident as over the last few months Bill Williams, with some help
from myself, have just finished an artical on Wikepedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bath_Technical_School#cite_ref-0
with a link to this website and this has resulted in some reports from a
Google search leading back here with hopefully more guys finding us,
hope you find some of the threads amusing if not informative.
Nov. 9, 2009
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Actually, Anthony, I found the Wiki site by
accident while idly surfing, looking for information about Bath. It led
me to this site. You certainly have put a lot of valuable information
into the Wiki site. It should be essential reading for any ex-Bath Tech
pupil. I hope it leads to more people coming forward. Congratulations on
a magnificent effort.
Nov. 9, 2009
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The congratulations should go to Bill, I helped mainly
with the research, and the artical was much larger than it is in its
present form ( the editors on Wiki are very strict regarding content),
quite a bit was condensed and deleted but at least we have managed to
get something on the board for future reference. At least we now know it has served its original intention and brought someone to this website.
Nov. 9, 2009
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Hi David and Anth.
I didn't realise that you and Bill were doing the work on Wiki
Anth, I'm surprised you managed to find the time what with all the
digging and stuff at Midford. Anyhow, I think congrats are in order
as it seems to be paying off. Keep up the good work, guys.
I'm rather intrigued that our paths have not crossed before,
David, because your time at school roughly coincides with mine, 55 till
61/2. Had one year at Brougham Hayes. Interesting that you now live in
Dorset, I was born at Sherborne!
Regards to both.
John.
Nov. 10, 2009
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We must have been a year apart, John. I started in
1956 at Weymouth House. Class 1Y with Killer Keating. I left in 1961
(after one year at Brougham Hayes) when my father was posted to Rosyth
Dockyard and I finished my schooling in Scotland. In the early seventies
I was aerodrome manager at a remote Hebridean airfield when a RN
helicopter came up to the control tower for a mug of tea (I was very
accommodating) and he recognised a model railway locomotive I was
building. We got chatting about the GWR and SDJR and - hey presto - he
turned out to have been an ex-Bath Tech pupil. I spent a while working
at Prestwick and then moved with my family to Dorset in 1979 on a five
year tour as an instructor at the College of Air Traffic Control at
Bournemouth Airport. Then I had a heart attack and lost my ATC licence.
They gave it back to me on condition I never practiced operational ATC
again (work that one out). So I stayed in Dorset for the rest of my
career. But the connections with Bath continued. One of my sons went to
Bath University and my daughter studied air traffic control at Bailbrook
when it was an ATC college. I like to go back there now and again.
Nov. 10, 2009
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Hi David.
Yes, I realise now that you were a year behind me, but you must
have appeared in the 1957 school photo (See whole school photos).
Glad to learn that you are a bit of a railway 'Nut' as well. If you look
in railway related photos you can see one of my offspring 'Playing
trains' also some first class examples of O gauge models built by a very
good friend Mick Jefferies.
You have had an exciting and varied career, fancy the RN visiting
for tea! I'm afraid my past has been quite mundane by comparison.
Been in engineering of the electrical variety, all my life, mostly
working with machine control systems. It has taken me to some far flung
places though, I have to admit, but have never been to the mighty US of
A, not sure if this is good or bad! Worked in Europe and the far
east mostly, those days are over now, but I still visit Ireland
fairly regularly and love it. As you may have guessed I'm still in
harness although a year past retiring age, trouble is I can't leave it
alone.
Incidentally, I am also involved with the vintage show at Kemble.
There are photos of this on the site also courtesy of Bill, Anth and
Stu, they all came to visit this year.
Sorry, I'm rabbiting on again, I guess the rest of the guys are used to it by now!
Have to go, food is ready.
Best regards.
John.
Nov. 10, 2009
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I can't recommend the pleasure of retirement too
highly, John. I reckon it's the best career move I ever made. I prepared
for it in one way by having a railway shed built at the bottom of the
garden. It now houses a 7mm scale narrow guage line. There's a couple of
pictures in my album. You mention logging into the railway related
photos. How do I do that? I'm not very computer literate. Retirement
isn't about sitting round doing nothing, of course. It's all about doing
the things you hadn't the time or the money to do when you were working
primarily to pay off the mortgage. I used part of my pension pot to pay
off my mortgage and now I enjoy life relatively debt free. Not rich,
but relatively free. Once a week I spend a day walking in the Dorset
countryside with a group of friends which costs no more than a pint and a
pub lunch. Me and the memsahib get to go places when others are busy
working which means we can afford holidays when they cost less. Since I
packed in working we've been to far-flung places we never could afford
to go to before. And I spend hours writing purely for pleasure and
not because I have to. That's a left-over from English lessons at CBTS
with a teacher whose name I can't recall. He left before we got to
Brougham Hayes and was replaced by Mrs Williams. Anyway, like I said,
retirement is a great way to spend your days.
Nov. 12, 2009
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I couldn't remember the name of that helicopter
pilot until I looked through your past discussions, and there it was.
David Paul: one of your contributors. Small world. And I've also now
managed to get into your photos. Loved the old piccies of Weymouth
House. What a shame they had to pull the place down.
Nov. 12, 2009
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Hi David.
Good to know that you got into the piccies OK in the end. I agree
with your sentiments about Weymouth House, but that's proress
suppose. Its great that you are finding retirement so enjoyable and that
you have so many varied interests. I've said it many times before, I
reckon that if I were to retire tomorrow and lived to be a hundred then I
will still not manage to do all the things I would like to, but as
neither are likely then its all a bit hypothetical really. None the
less I still find the time to do many of the things I enjoy.
The only English master I can think of that may fill the bill was 'Taff' Griffiths, youngish bloke with glasses and dark hair.
Just going off now to have a look at your piccies.
Bi for now.
John.
Nov. 12, 2009
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