Marine Reflections
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You are welcome, no scuba kit yet, but want one!
Yes, the flyers were still up.
Yes, the flyers were still up.
Lost key at Shepperton lock
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single
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Plan would have been for them to call number on flyer then my sister could collect it from them (shes in Weybridge)
But, yes good point although i doubt anyone would bother coming to Cardiff!
byron
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Bilge Diver and myself were at school in Kaahdiff we were both at Monkton House.
single
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How do you know i was at Monkton? What years?
single
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Are you Rob?
byron
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I was just there for a couple of years, guessing 1950-52. John (Bilge Diver) did his whole education there also starting from about the same time. We met up on-line purely by accident in the very early days of the internet in a boating forum run by Compuserve. 14k Modems and all that jazz.
Quite a few Greek Captains and Shipowners sent their kids to Monkton House in those days.
Bilgediver
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Those were the days!!!!! I was in Mrs Fort's class when Byron arrived I think he started his brief visit in Miss Pritchards....
Yep Cardiff was a haven for Greek shipowners and liberty ships. I finished up with Reardon Smiths. Devon/Welsh!
Yep Cardiff was a haven for Greek shipowners and liberty ships. I finished up with Reardon Smiths. Devon/Welsh!
byron
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Among the Greeks Monkton House was considered the most prestigious private school in Wales. Because of this when I attended a school reunion with Bilge Diver a few years back I was quite surprised that he and I were the only professional sailors there although the 'ruling class' of South Wales seemed very much evident. I suppose that was for the first few years after WW2 when the Greeks centered themselves on Cardiff & Liverpool. By the early to mid 1950s they had moved to the Bayswater area of London and conducted their shipping business in the Cafes there. Yes! my Dad had a Liberty Ship called the Captain George but by that time we had moved to Hillingdon where I was at the same school as Brayman.
byron
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Thread drift
WOW! Sorry everyone I consider my wrist well and truly slapped for this inconsiderate thread drift.
WOW! Sorry everyone I consider my wrist well and truly slapped for this inconsiderate thread drift.
Bilgediver
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In an earlier life you would have had your wrists slapped by you know who and she would have dumped you in The Bilge
single
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I quite like the thread drift, its facinating. I don't suppose they had hovercrafts at Monkton when you were there? I'm assuming it was still at the Parade? I was there for the 80s!
I don't suppose they had hovercrafts at Monkton when you were there? I'm assuming it was still at the Parade? I was there for the 80s!
byron
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Hovercraft? They hadn't been invented, Atlantic crossings were still normally done by ship. Kaahdiff was a major seaport. The Taff ran black with coal dust and no fish lived in it. Racism hadn't been invented by the PC Nazis and in Cardiff especially blacks lived worked and played alongside whites. It was a different world in the 40s & 50s.I quite like the thread drift, its facinating.
single
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Does the name Martin Williams mean anything to you?
byron
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Not to me but it might to John. I only remember those that were in my little circle none of who's names will mean anything to a young whipper snapper like you
Bilgediver
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I quite like the thread drift, its facinating.
You might have been there when Mr Longmore was head......Byron and I were there in t eh CC Williams era Dickie Fort ruled the classes with wooden board rubbers and a cane....
Mr Longmore incidentally is my brother in law.....Hope he never checked my school records during his reign!!!!!
single
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He was my headmaster (Mr Longmore) and is son was a few years behind me! Small world!
byron
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Is Monkton House (Kings Monkton) still the premier private school of Wales or was that just my impression at the time because the Greeks spoke of the school with reverence. Certainly in my view the elite of the area seemed to send their boys there or to the intense rivals up the road for Roman Catholics DeLascelles (sp?).
single
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I'm not sure which is regarded as the best anymore.I suppose travelling is so much easier now so parents can select further afield. Monkton (Kings Monkton) still ranks well but has changed dramatically.For girls i think Howells is still the best.
Bilgediver
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Too small I was at the sons wedding in Memphis recently where I bumped into an old adversary of Byron from a bygone age.....The "Headmistress" LoL.
single
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Next we will find out you live next door to my sister!!!