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Now you have finished relaxing over the festive break, please check to see if you can help Geoff Blackmore, who is appealing for missing historical information on the Presidents' Day Cricket Matches.

Click the button for more details.... HELP !!
 

We have just h
eard that there is to be a program about one of our famous Old Boys -
Frank Dickens (Cartoonist - & creator of 'Bristow')
entitled 'Holy Mackerel - It's My Life'
BBC Radio 4 at 11:30 a.m. on 2
nd February 2012

 Click to listen live now...
 
BBC Radio 4
Ralph Steadman and the Daily Mail's Mac help unravel the extraordinary life and career of
Frank Dickens - the cartoonist behind Bristow, the world's longest-running daily strip.

 


VARIA... 
"Still you are Stationers, far as you roam..."


Recent entries in the Guestbook...
Steve Trew - "Boy, am I @#%$! at keeping in touch! Attended the dinner a couple of years back and our 1958/50th reunion; good times! Would love to hear from anyone, hopefully making Christmas lunch on December 7th. Anyone from around my years going? Email me on *******, promise to reply. happy days, Steve."
Ender Salahi - "I would dearly love to hear from anyone who remembers me and wish to contact me can do so i would love to hear from them. I was the short fat one and a bloody good artist. I used to draw caricatures of some of the students and teachers alike. Although I was known as Ender Salahi then, i am known as Andy Biltekin now, surname changed when i left school, and Andy was less embarrassing than Ender the Bender, lol. I am very glad that this site exists...."
   
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This year's PRESIDENT'S DAY
was on Sunday 28th August at Botany Bay Cricket Club.

Pictures and Match Report are available in the
Gallery > President's Day > 2011
NOW IN YOUR LIBRARY
YOU CAN VIEW EVERY MAGAZINE PUBLISHED AT THE SCHOOL FROM 1884 TO 1983
AS WELL AS ALL 'THE OLD STATIONER' MAGAZINES FROM 1972 TO PRESENT DAY!!
JUST CLICK THE LIBRARY BUTTON ON THE LEFT
(& don't forget that you may have to 'refresh' your browser when you load it)
FANTASY FOOTBALL
Competition 2011/2012
Pit your football knowledge against the legends of football Pat Dunphy, Don Bewick and David Hudson.
Join the Daily Telegraph competition and enter your team(s) in the Old Stationers League.
 
Details:   OLD STATIONERS  PIN no. 8002562
If you need any help contact Richard Slatford: slats65@hotmail.co.uk
Click the green button on the left for the results from 2010/11

Issue #73 of The Old Stationer
has been distributed - so you should have yours by now...

At our Christmas Lunch last year, someone asked the Webmaster for the
correct collective noun for a group of Old Stationers.
Suggestions appreciated (amusing or otherwise) - as long as they're clean! ....
 

 Appeals for details of Old Stationers

Contact the Webmaster for the seeker's email address
Jane Carpenter writes... "My father, Oliver John Rust de Boer, was born in December 1920 and was at Stationers but am not sure of the years. I do know that he was in the Stationers Cadet Corps from 1932-1937. Sadly he died in 1983 following a fire. Therefore we have no photographs of him for his grandchildren who never met him. I have recently obtained his war records and am trying to piece together his life. I am writing to ask if anyone remembers him and if anyone had any photographs of him or do class photos exist?" 
Several members of the Stanbury family have emailed us and are...  " - trying to find out as much information as possible about The Stationers' Boys School as I believe that both my father, Charles Millar Salmond and my uncle, Peter Stanbury Salmond attended the school but left in 1925 to move to Glasgow where their father, Thomas Millar Salmond took up another post. My father died when I was a teenager and my uncle was killed in WW2.  I was born shortly after he was killed and inherited his name.  As a family, the war was never discussed but as a result, we are really ignorant on numerous aspects of their lives..." etc.

Click on the GO button on the left to find out more about each one..
RECRUIT MORE MEMBERS INTO THE OSA...
DID YOU START AT SCHOOL IN 1954?  55th Anniversary Reunion was held in September 2009
NEW PHOTO ADDED... Do you recognise anyone???  ATC c1961 - taken by Andrew Dunlop's father & Bruce Dunlop owns up...

19th July 2008 at the Hall - was a wonderful reunion of Old Stationers of all ages. The event was very well attended, & our late Webmaster Tony Reeve took many wonderful pictures for us - all of which are here for you to share.

The Hicklenton Cup,. Some time ago Tony asked for information about a silver cup that had been presented to the OSA by Sarah Scuppage, a lady who had moved into a house in Cobham to find it there when she moved in. Out of the blue he heard from one of Howard HIcklenton's descendants, with further interesting details of the history of this cup.

Accommodation in London... Peter Evans writes: If you are in London for any event (for instance, the Annual Dinner) I'd like to offer Old Stationers a 20% discount at my hotel in Bloomsbury (50% those who were in the 1949 arrivals - see page 36 of the Spring 2005 magazine). Details are on the hotel's website - http://www.georgehotel.com." (The yellow button will take you to that site). Don't forget - You'll need to ask for "Old Stationers' Discount" when you contact the hotel.
There's the book about Colin Chapman (one of our 'famous' Old Boys).

There's the book 'Walk On'  by Old Boy Alex Flemming... (about what England needs to do to win the World Cup again!) - a 'MUST READ' for all fans, players, coaches, sponsors, et al.

Scuttleboom's Treasure - What is, or rather was, Scuttleboom's Treasure? Andrew Dunlop was digging in his loft where he came across these excellent pictures from this school play in the 60s.
More Pictures of School Plays... & an enigma... Andrew Dunlop also sent another four sets of photos - also taken in the 60s, but he has forgotten what the plays were! If you can identify the play or the players, please let us know &, if you do, please don't forget to say which set of photos you are referring to as well as which picture/s you have been able to identify! Email us...
The Quick Collection... Were you at school in the 30s? Do you remember HRH The Prince of Wales at the 1935 Prize giving? Or the play 'The Rivals' in 1934? Thanks to Estelle Quick and her father Alan for the pictures from his years at the school. Click here for some unique pictures.

You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open some of our files. You can download it free by clicking the icon below
- just make sure you select your correct 'Operating System' when downloading
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1957 Choir

For those of you who remember the year 1957 & the Prize Giving ceremony that year, you may recall that Mr D A Clover not only conducted the choir, but also made a recording of the choir singing the songs it sang at that occasion. The tracks below in mp3 format you could try playing them by clicking on the links below, because they have been 'transcribed', though, the results may be a little unpredictable. Rather than this, if you right-click the button on your mouse over each track, you will be able to select "Save target as..." then download the file to save it on your own hard disk.

Poor old Joe Cakes & Ale Laudate Nomen Domini
Here's a Health Unto His Majesty Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary
(played by D A Clover on the school organ)


Here are a some other posts worthy of note...

Cecil Newton - joined from the Junior School in 1933 & left in 1941. He has memories of Wisbech, as well as other fascinating titbits. Read his email in full in POSTBAG - ask us for his email if you want to get in touch with him.

Edgar Frederick Punchard - Carol Lewry, the daughter of Edgar, is interested in finding more about her late father, and his schooldays. Please send email to her by clicking here.

Dennis Aw - Dennis was at the school from 1972 to 1979, and, sad to say, died last winter. His close friend, Roy Kilpatrick, would like to hear from anyone who remembers Dennis.

1974/75 School Photo - Dr Liam Gallagher would like to hear from anyone who has a copy of the above photo - or send details to us for inclusion on the website.