Comments on: George Glass (1944) Memories

By: derek hanney

derek hanney — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:52:47 +0000

Hi George,
I was at City of bath boys school from sept 1939 to 1944, I think I remember your name. I do remember some of the school pupils, Tom Smith, Peter Board, george tomkins and a lear and a hunt. I believe hunt got an army commission. We have lived in Canada for 55 years, and my daughter found the old sulian site on the internet. I did visit the old school a few years ago but it didn’t seem to be the same as I remember. I remember marcus matthews giving the whole junior school the “dap” of which I was one. Also remember froggie holden (he lived into his 90s). Also Dr taylor at assembly saying “2 boys on the #? bus did not give up their seats to the ladies”

By: Lewis Cawthorn

Lewis Cawthorn — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:55:34 +0000

Hello George
As an exact contemporary, I remember you well from those years. My memory of who was in which “form” is different from yours and I am quite sure that Raymond Leppard was a year (or possibly two) ahead of both of us.
Your piece made me wonder how many of 4L1, the names read out twice every day like a mantra for all those years, are still around
Andrews, Bannister, Brook, Burgess, Cawthorn, Child, Davies J.A., Davies J.H., Denham, Hart, Harvey, Kirby, Leat, Lloyd, Luckman, Manley, Morgan, Newhouse, O’Shaughnessy, Partridge, Robertson, Smith, Snowdon, Wilson.
Of those, I saw Polly Partridge a few times over the four years or so after leaving school and was very touched when Terry Leat turned up at my father’s funeral in the eighties – thinking it was me!
I remember Roger running in the school mile in 1944 and finishing third. He subsequently made better progress than Mike Derrington and Tom Smith who finished first and second.
My one beef with young Bannister was – is – that he conferred on me the nickname “Spike” which it took me more than twenty years to get rid of.
Best wishes to all who have survived,

LEWIS Cawthorn

By: ALAN F. PALMER

ALAN F. PALMER — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:37:54 +0000

Dear George,
It was good to read of your C.B.B.S. experiences on the O.S.A. letter page;
I was at the School from 1942-1947.
Many of your experiences match my own at that
time, and, like you, the education that was drummed into me at that time stood me in good stead thereafter. Unlike you my career was in accountancy, (but never in the Bath area) mainly in the Motor Industry. Prior to this however I spent several years in the social field after qualifyling from a Home Office course at Ruskin College (Oxford) as an Approved School Housemaster. The work was most satisfying, but the hours were long and somewhat eratic as the needs of the (boy) pupils always came first. I was then married with a very young family, and it was when I finally realised the children were losing out that I reluctantly had to give up this calling and return in a big way into accountancy, from whence I came to York, finally retiring here. Since then I have really enjoyed the more relaxed life; long may it continue!!
Best wish to you,
Alan.