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ORIGINAL MESSAGE NAME:John BibbyDATE: 31 August 2004 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1955-59 Thanks Vic for putting this site up. I found your personal site rivettingly good. It certainly reinforced my NEGATIVE memories of QEBS (stuffy, bullying, trying-to-be-posh-but-not-quite-making- it). After leaving QEBS for Hull, I went to a distinctly un-posh mixed grammar, where I was much happier, and FLOWERED and SUCCEEDED. (I was always mid-range at QEBS, yet the Hull school got me to Cambridge so QEBS can not have been all bad!) Among POSITIVE memories of QEBS are some good friends (Nick Pollard who died recently, and others I have not seen since 1959 - I'd love to hear from Harry Johnstone, the Sinclairs, Tim Dunningham, Peter Connor, Andy Smith, Jim Bradford, Edward Millar, Stuart Quin and anyone else who remembers me). |
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1st REPLY NAME: Nigel WoodDATE: 30 May 2006 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil starting 1957 in Form 1B Although my schooldays were not the happiest of my life, I can't blame this on the school or my peers. More on another thread sometime. Now a specific point... Did you have an older brother at QE? For another, older Bibby deserves my thanks... I was a first- or second-former on the cramped QE stage in the choir in a Christmas concert (Purcell) in 1957 or 1958 when I started to feel unwell. I made my way towards a door at the back of the stage. My path was blocked by K W Carter, who clearly didn't understand the urgency of the matter and was trying to minimise the disturbance in the middle of an item. How can one put delicately what followed? Mr Carter was faced with a cleaning bill and the bass line must have been one voice short for the rest of the evening. I escaped back stage, mortified and shaking. It is here that a Bibby comes in. I don't know whether he'd been stationed there, had been sent, or had seen what had happened, but he took charge of me and insisted that I put on a huge number of extra layers of clothing including both rugby shirts from my kitbag (combination 9467!). I protested that I was fine, but he was not to be deflected, and must have stood by for the best part of half an hour. It was really good not to have been left alone. His was an act of practical kindness in a not altogether kind environment. He was, I believe, a sub-prefect (what a wonderful concept!), but free from the vanity of trying to be smartly turned out at all times. Over almost 50 years I salute him. | ||
2nd REPLY NAME: AnonDATE: 16 March 2008 CONNECTION WITH QE: Very old boy Sorry to hear about Nick Pollard, he was a good bloke. [Webmaster's note: I put the rest of your message in thread 12, where it's more relevant]. | ||
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