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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Malc on December 14, 2008, 09:00:09 AM
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I was just showing a friend of my wife's my old school in Glasgow, North Kelvinside Secondary, which I attended from about '67 to '68.
I was trying to show her the frightening vision I had to contend with every day I attended, because the school was a dismal looking building - a Dickensian nightmare.
Anyway, there are a couple of web sites dedicated to it and they have photos. One of them mentioned "alumni" and I clicked to find that Robert Carlyle and Jimmy Somerville both went to the school too, and now I don't feel so bad.
They're both younger than me by a few years so I wasn't there at the same time.
I attended other schools too (my dad was in the army) and another of my old school chums who I never met was Ridley Scott.
Who went to your school we might have heard of?
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I was briefly at Mosspark Primary School in Glasgow before heading to the Highlands. I found out later that the other cartooning Malky---McCormick---went there too.
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Buckler's Mead Comprehensive, Yeovil: Ian Botham
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I never went to school much when I was a kid - maybe if I had I could be someone famous.
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Mosspark Primary is only five miles from Shakespeare St Primary (I was there for a year around 1967).
I went back to see the old school a number of years ago - it's local council offices now and seems so small, but as a pupil I thought of it as horrifying.
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Chatham House Grammar in Ramsgate. Frank Muir and Edward Heath.
Mince went to a school of fish. Here he is in a geography lesson (http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/images/artists/craft-pr/pilchards-a.htm).
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I'm feeling a bit bad about comparing Mince to a pilchard.
Does anyone think I should apologise?
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I'm feeling a bit bad about comparing Mince to a pilchard.
Does anyone think I should apologise?
Well, Yes! The poor pilchard probably need counselling; a difficult thing to get this close to Christmas.
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Aren't you already getting complaints from the Pilchard Appreciation Society?
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Aren't you already getting complaints from the Pilchard Appreciation Society?
No, Diane. Mince doesn't seem to have woken up yet.
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May be he is now a sardine and does not answer to pilchard, you know how sensitive he is.
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St. Bride's, Helensburgh: Deborah Kerr.
John Logie Baird went to Larchfield Academy, which amalgamated with St. Bride's to form Lomond School.
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Can't claim any great statesmen, inventors, pop, film or TV stars as former pupils of Perth High School that I am aware of, but I played in the same senior football team as a number of lads who went on to have varying degrees of success in the professional game, the most notable of whom was Ian Redford, who played for Dundee, Rangers, Dundee United, Ipswich Town, St Johnstone, Brechin City and Raith Rovers. His move to Rangers was for a record Scottish transfer fee of ?210,000 - which won't buy you a week's worth of Wayne Rooney these days.
There was also Ian's cousin, Gavin (St Johnstone), Pat Ward (Celtic & St Johnstone), John Clark (Aberdeen & Forfar Athletic) and Kenny Johnston (Dundee United). Me? I had a few years with Dunning Heather FC. I know, I know.........
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George Cowie, (West Ham, Hearts, Dunfermline, Morton) was my next door neighbour for a couple of years when I moved to Queensland. He's originally from Buckie, and there are loads of people from that wee Moray Firth town here in the south Brisbane area, for some reason.
He moved away to take charge of the Solomon Islands national team for a bit during a time when some foreigners were beheaded by rebel tribesmen, and returned to head Football Queensland's coaching development. I had a happy reunion with him when he took my senior coaching licence course.
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No-one of any significance went to either of my schools (primary or secondary). I did used to work in Safeway with a bunch of guys who went to the same school as Craig Easton who used to play for Dundee United. That's about it.
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the only people of importance that went to my school were the pupils
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Oh, friends and neighbours now, is it?
Right - my Granny (may she rest in peace) lived next door to the uncle of a lady who bought a hat from a shop owned by a one-legged man that served in the army with a corporal whose grandfather's doctor's niece married a carpet salesman who happened to have sold a Persian rug to a family that lived above a grocer's shop which was frequented by two gentlemen who once shared a lift with Quentin Crisp. Beat that! :\
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I once serve Barbara Windsor with a rug in watford.
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Oh, friends and neighbours now, is it?
Right - my Granny (may she rest in peace) lived next door to the uncle of a lady who bought a hat from a shop owned by a one-legged man that served in the army with a corporal whose grandfather's doctor's niece married a carpet salesman who happened to have sold a Persian rug to a family that lived above a grocer's shop which was frequented by two gentlemen who once shared a lift with Quentin Crisp. Beat that! :\
Don't you just hate it when people drop names.
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Oh, friends and neighbours now, is it?
Only if they're interesting...
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Define "interesting ...", Malc.
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Right. Seeing as you ask. Your neighbour has to be interesting to me.
If you're not sure whether I would find your neighbour (or former neighbour) interesting, please send me a private email, giving their name and accomplishments.
Under NO circumstances is anyone to post anything about their allegedly interesting neighbour unless they have clearance from me. That is final. >:(
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Pphhht! Like that's going to happen! Anyway, I've already told you about the only former neighbour of mine that would be of the remotest interest to you, Graham Arnold (football connection, boys).
Other people may (or may not) be interested to know that Bill Turnbull, presenter on the BBC breakfast show, was a friend at uni. He went out with my friend for a year or two. I always forget when I go back to the UK, and even if I see the program, it takes me a little while to "click" again, as we only knew him by his nickname (which I am not going to reveal). That's because I never really watch morning shows - have them on in the background and only pay attention when something peaks my interest.
Gordon Brown was also Rector of Edinburgh uni when I was there - he's a bit older - and because of Bill's and other friends' student politics connections, I did cross paths with him occasionally. Last time I was in the UK, I learnt very quickly this was not something about which I should boast!
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I have been talking online with Roger Kettle...yes THE Roger Kettle since the year 2000.
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I always forget when I go back to the UK, and even if I see the program, it takes me a little while to "click" again, as we only knew him by his nickname (which I am not going to reveal).
Oh go on. How bad can it be?
;D
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I bet it was "Brownie". They're feral, those Edinburgh students.
I don't know whether you lot are into nature docos, but there was a huge hit called Meerkat Manor a couple of years back.
Caroline Hawkins is the creator and producer of that series and I went out with her at college.
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Is that what scared her away to live with Meerkats?
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I wish it was that simple. However, she did go to live with Meerkats.
Well not WITH them, sort of next door in a disguised shed (apparently) where she and her team could film them.
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Roger Kettle went to the same primary school as me... but not at the same time (he is a little younger than me)
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Annoying, isn't it, Elizabeth? My wee brother went to the same school as me too.
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I bet it was "Brownie". They're feral, those Edinburgh students.
I don't know whether you lot are into nature docos, but there was a huge hit called Meerkat Manor a couple of years back.
Caroline Hawkins is the creator and producer of that series and I went out with her at college.
Ha, Ha! He already had the nickname when he came to Edinburgh - acquired either at a very famous public school or possibly even at the one before that. You know how cruel posh kids can be. The name's really quite innocuous, but I'm not going to tell a bunch of cartoonists what it was.
I remember Meerkat Manor - only saw bits and pieces of it, though.
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I'm not a cartoonist, you can tell me :)
I have no ability to reach the masses with such a juicy story...