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NAME: David Selway-Hoskin

DATE: 20 October 2004

CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1950s

I have slowly been re-establishing contact with school friends, partly through your site and partly via my own website.  To the latter I have added a few QE photos although not having a camera at the time, I do not have many images of my school days.  You [the webmaster] were in Stapylton but you will know many of the faces in a Leicester house photo I have just put on my website. You are correct about my acting ability, a debut as Calpurnia in JC was a false start to a non-career move.  I think I was only picked because my voice broke fairly late.  [see notes about the former school mag ].

 Despite the bad times as a non-sporting pupil, I have to say that the School had a good effect on my career.  Through a contact of Ken Carter's I secured an engineering apprenticeship at Rolls-Royce which stood me in good stead through my engineering career.

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NAME: Stephen Giles

DATE: 15 July 2006

CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil late 50s / early '60s

What amazing photos, even after all this time looking at those faces of masters in 1961, when I would have been in the 4th form, makes me shudder.  Dozy Dixon is there, we were very unkind to him indeed, and I'm sure with the exception of Tiger Timpson, a revisit by time machine would show that they were mostly good eggs.  I'll see if I can remember some faces in the house photo.
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