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Choirboy
Bicester |
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Mon 16th Sep 2024 12:07am
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5689808252/ announces a tea-party for alumni on 10th October from 4pm to celebrate 70 years of its existence. I might go if I recognise anybody from the 1959 thereabouts entry will be there.
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Choirboy
Bicester |
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Tue 1st Oct 2024 12:59pm
"https://www.facebook.com/groups/5689808252/ announces a tea-party for alumni on 10th October from 4pm to celebrate 70 years of its existence.". I have heard at least 7 (me included) of the 1959 intake will be going. It starts at 4.30pm.
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Choirboy
Bicester |
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Fri 11th Oct 2024 4:05pm
We had an excellent afternoon at the reunion tea yesterday, the school did itself proud. Further comments from those "oldies" who were there are on the fb page https://www.facebook.com/groups/5689808252/
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TeePee
Stratford Upon Avon |
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Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:20pm
I was at Caludon 1955 to 1960 from the second year it opened. I guess I will add to the people you know Slash1 I think that was your nickname (aka PL if I'm not mistaken) and if I'm right I think there was a day when French teacher Mr Shipley was so frustrated with you he tipped the wicker waste bin upside down on your head and sent you out!
I remember many of the teachers from then. My time was quite a happy one although I was not a star at sport. I did play in the house basketball team! In Talbot to begin with Geoff Bennet as HM then Morgan where "Lofty" Jim Summers was HM. Somebody mentioned "blob" D Davies he was HM Mowbray. Do you remember the eight-day calendar? Overall Caludon was good for me, a wide range of experience. Weekending in a bar sometime later I once went back to see Mr Evans with a pewter tankard that had a damaged base and he soldered a copper ring base on it. Great guys there. I often quote "Nosined" Denison the biology teacher who said "believe nothing you hear and half that you see" My grandchildren now quote it back to me with resignation in their voice!!
I could go on but.... I left in 1960 to become the first commercial apprentice at Coventry Gauge and Tool. When TI closed part of the company in 1980 I left having become Finance Director of the gauge division TI Coventry Gauge. An octogenarian now with many good memories.
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:31pm
Hi TeePee, welcome to the forum
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Gumnut
Berridale NSW Australia |
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Thu 21st Nov 2024 7:02am
On 20th Nov 2024 12:20pm, TeePee said:
I was at Caludon 1955 to 1960 from the second year it opened. I guess I will add to the people you know Slash1 I think that was your nickname (aka PL if I'm not mistaken) and if I'm right I think there was a day when French teacher Mr Shipley was so frustrated with you he tipped the wicker waste bin upside down on your head and sent you out!
I remember many of the teachers from then. My time was quite a happy one although I was not a star at sport. I did play in the house basketball team! In Talbot to begin with Geoff Bennet as HM then Morgan where "Lofty" Jim Summers was HM. Somebody mentioned "blob" D Davies he was HM Mowbray. Do you remember the eight-day calendar? Overall Caludon was good for me, a wide range of experience. Weekending in a bar sometime later I once went back to see Mr Evans with a pewter tankard that had a damaged base and he soldered a copper ring base on it. Great guys there. I often quote "Nosined" Denison the biology teacher who said "believe nothing you hear and half that you see" My grandchildren now quote it back to me with resignation in their voice!!
I could go on but.... I left in 1960 to become the first commercial apprentice at Coventry Gauge and Tool. When TI closed part of the company in 1980 I left having become Finance Director of the gauge division TI Coventry Gauge. An octogenarian now with many good memories.
I was schooled at Caludon up to 1988 and Geoff Bennet was also still a teacher!caomhinsean@gmail.com
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Mon 23rd Dec 2024 11:49am
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suzie
coventry |
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Mon 19th May 2025 4:47pm
Does anyone remember Peter Spooner-Whyte? I know he lived in Coventry 43-early 60s and then went to University in Leeds.
Moderator note - would have been at Caludon Castle Comprehensive School in the late 1950s
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gemat
Amsterdam |
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Fri 18th Jul 2025 10:07am
Really interesting how some changes started before the bombing, war just sped it all up.
orac
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lolipop
arley |
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Sun 20th Jul 2025 1:28pm
Remember "Dad" Drinkwater, he was always put on the last leg of the Teachers v Pupils relay on sports day.
Nicholson
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walrus
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Mon 21st Jul 2025 9:10am
I remember D. A. Drinkwater, his initials were in gold on his leather sports bag. In our fourth year, which was 62/63, a new PE teacher, Mr. Pilbeam, joined the staff. He was a real hard man and immediately reminded the set that he would stand no nonsense. I went into the navy later in 63 and one of our education officers asked where I was from and which school I attended. "Caludon Castle ? Then you might know Captain Pilbeam RM." Made sense.
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GuestRees
Swansea |
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Sat 30th Aug 2025 8:23pm
Hello,
I am writing this on behalf of my father Malcolm Rees. He turned 93 this week and is in reasonable health. He is living back in Swansea near to where he grew up.
Caludon was, I believe his first teaching post when the school was newly opened (late 50's) before leaving when he accepted a new post at Dartford Grammar School for Boys. He said the headmaster tried to persuade him to stay, he said he has no regrets leaving though he really enjoyed Caludon and teaching the boys there. Unbelievably he remembers a lot of the boys names from those photos. He had a long and enjoyable career as a school master in various schools and finally retired back in the 90's from Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar. Recently I sat with him and we went through an album that had within the attached photographs of his form class and the cricket teams he coached.
I can pass any messages to him should anybody see this post and wish to comment.M Rees
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Sat 30th Aug 2025 8:33pm
Hi GuestRees, welcome (and your Dad) to the forum
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TeePee
Stratford Upon Avon |
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Mon 8th Sep 2025 4:39pm
Hi GuestRees. The school opened in 1954 with the transfer of John Gulson school to the new comprehensive. I was there from September 1955 to July 1960 (no leaving when the exams were finished in those days!). I don't remember your dad but as you can see all the photos were taken in front of the science block. Interestingly the one with the uniforms on shows three or four boys in the old blazer with the red edge binding. They were navy blue and edged red initially, replaced by plain black when you moved, after the first two years in a 'lower school' house, to an 'upper school house. I was first in Talbot and then Morgan. Some of the faces in the 'Uniformed' photo look vaguely familiar but I can't be sure. You might want to sign on to the Facebook Caludon Castle Alumni group - in your Dad's name to see photos of people he may remember. HH Tilley was Headmaster when I was there and features on the left in the photos you show with two adults.
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