tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551095981795678487.post2513667463806073380..comments2023-02-19T11:09:34.995+00:00Comments on Peter Symonds' School Nostalgia Corner: Sixth form mutinyDoug Clewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161329377810660760noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551095981795678487.post-62057900524502942932001-12-20T06:17:00.000+00:002001-12-20T06:17:00.000+00:00The film 'If ....' was on the other day, m...The film 'If ....' was on the other day, maybe this incident was the inspiration! Actually I was just telling someone yesterday about how we boarders used to have a film on Sunday nights. In those days it would have been reels of 16mm I suppose. They were reasonably current, and no distinction was made about the age of some of the audience. I remember seeing a few films which were quite mind stretching at an impressionable age. 'If ....' and 'The Wicker Man' were two of them. I remember that the upper sixth leavers in 1977 or 1978 managed to park the Bedford 3 ton truck on top of the armoury somehow, which was quite amusing. They had to get a mobile crane in to get it off again.steve powell MSNhttp://msn-steve powell.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551095981795678487.post-66896923902863474322001-12-05T23:56:00.000+00:002001-12-05T23:56:00.000+00:00Hi Peter I was at Southampton University during ...Hi Peter I was at Southampton University during the summer of '57, but no news of a rebellion reached me there. Things must have been pretty desperate if it needed a mutiny to establish that "corps" was not compulsory; I opted out voluntarily of doing my "school national service", and other boys in my year did also; although we were not very popular wirh Mr Hammond, who was o/ic of CCF activities, we were grudgingly allowed to have that choice, although we were always regularly checked up on during the alternative "private study" periods that we were actually at school, and had n't slipped away to go home. Regards Peter Smith peter smith MSNhttp://msn-peter smith.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.com