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T h e O l d S t a t i o n e r - N o 8 1 I have caught a little more OS News after receipt last week of the two copies of the magazine you sent me – many thanks indeed. We are away from home for a couple of days but I have completed the application form and shall scan and send it when back home and on line. Regards Roy Turner 1953-1958 Hi Geraint 4th March 2015 peter.sandell@hotmail.co.uk Having just read some of the magazine and the letter 'from your ecclesiatical correspondent in the North', I remembered that I came across another Old Boy, C of E priest: MARTIN JOHN HARRIS, 1966-1973, whom I'm sure you will recall and no doubt you taught. He is 'Team Rector' at St. Paul's Harlow and is also Area Dean for the Harlow Deanery. I play the organ at St. Peters Roydon which comes under the Harlow Deanery, so heard his name and found him on facebook a couple of years ago, but met him at a dinner 16 months ago in Harlow and was sitting on his table, so we had a chat. After university he practised as a solicitor for a number of years but changed direction to become a priest. Regards Peter Sandell 1965-1972 PS. Have a look at Facebook. There's two sites in particular: Residents of Hornsey and Residents of Muswell Hill which often have postings from Old Boys of all ages. The OSA doesn't have a facebook site and I think in order to tap into the 'younger' market, maybe we should. From my ecclisiastical correspondent in the North – PETER MILLS former pupil at Reading School. A copy of a letter that Peter Mills received from ALAN CLEPS regarding DAVID OWERS. Please see Magazine Number 80 page 24, where Peter Mills meets DAVID OWERS and his wife EILEEN at Haxey Church and Peter discovers that David Owers is a former pupil at Stationers' Company's School.! Hello Peter, alancleps@yahoo.co.uk 4th March 2015 My name is Alan Cleps and I was a pupil at Stationers' from 1946-1951. I remember DAVID OWERS well. He was a fine footballer and played for the School alongside ALAN 'Shorty' JOHNSTONE 1946-1950 with whom I am still in regular contact. Alan and his wife Rosemary have lived in Canada for many years and currently reside in Toronto. I left Stationers' in July 1951 to take up an apprenticeship in the printing industry. I remained a printer all my working life as did 'Shorty' Johnstone. Alan is also a member of the OSA. Like yourself my wife and I are very much involved at our church, St. Faith's Gaywood, King's Lynn, Norfolk, where I was churchwarden for ten years. My wife is currently a Server, Acolyte and Chorister. She also takes Communion to the local housebound and runs a drop in centre on a Thursday morning. I left London 35 years ago for Norfolk. I turned 80 in August 2014. I have remained active in my retirement and currently create and print our church magazine. I also print two other Parish magazines along with creating and printing several other publications. We are fortunate in that our church has a complete printing set up which enables us to do the work for outside organisations, so bringing in much needed funds. I was in Hodgson House. Please remember me to Dave when you see him. Regards Alan Cleps 1946-1951 Dear Geraint 56 years on! ATC CAMP 1959 brijwilk@yahoo.co.uk 12th March 2015 In issue number 79, you kindly published my request for a copy of the photo of the 1959 ATC Camp at RAF Leeming (which I now live near). GRAHAM ARNOLD 1953-1960 responded as he had a copy of the said photo. He also reminded me that we were in the Potters Bar Boys' Brigade and the church youth club together! I had been in touch with RAF Leeming to see if they had a copy of the photograph in their records but they could not oblige. However, the Station Warrant Officer got in touch with me recently to say that if I would like to have my photograph taken in front of the Gloster Javelin gate-guard, I had better visit the station in the near future as it was about to be dismantled. Apparently, the MoD will only maintain such planes as are visible to the general public whereas the Leeming gate guard is now a long way from the original gate as the station has expanded over the years. The RAF have sold the Javelin to an air museum. So I visited the station and the Station Warrant Officer showed me around the station including their museum, which brought back memories of 1959, and I was able to present them with a copy of the 2049 squadron 1959 photo which is now in a prominent position in the museum. One amusing incident was when I was having my pass issued in the Guardhouse, the aircraftman on the desk asked if I had been to RAF Leeming before, so I said “Yes, 56 years ago!” at which the SWO said “You won't find him on the computer system!” At the end of our tour, we took some photos of the Javelin including one of me in front of the plane where I was standing 56 years ago! The eagle-eyed among the magazine readers will spot that it is not the same plane as we lined up in front of in 1959 but it is still a Gloster Javelin. The SWO, who had only recently been appointed, was obviously immensely proud of RAF Leeming and when I thanked him by e-mail, he responded, “You are more than welcome, it was lovely to talk to you.” My abiding memoryof that camp was the bone-shaking journey up the Great North Road in the back of a lorry (no Health and Safety in those days!) and the next day we flew down to Hendon in a transport plane. We all wondered why we couldn't have waited a day and travelled up in style. I also remember long chats with one of the officers about the possibility of taking up a short-term commission when I was called up for National Service. However,the last quarter of 1940 was the first quarter not to be called up so it didn't arise and I went to Exeter to read Law instead. It would be interesting to hear others memories of that camp. Yours nostalgically Brian Wilkinson 1952-1959 alex.flemming@websmartware.com 7th April 2015 Hi Geraint The extensive piece in the last issue of The Old Stationer by Roger Engledow attracted my attention. The various scenarios facing the OSA regarding the future, especially since the inception of Stationers Crown Woods Academy, deserve much credit for their wide-ranging nature. Indeed I can only think that this all 20
T h e O l d S t a t i o n e r - N o 8 1 boils down to the following points:- 1. Are the members of the OSA (however this 'vote' may be achieved) interested in a future for their past? 2. If the vote is no, then all the other scenarios are pointless. If yes, then a hand needs to be extended to the future graduates of SCWA whether by means of sports societies or whatever. (For those of a more sporting bias, it would be great to see actual Old Stationers playing in the teams of that name, would it not?) 3. Finally, in my last message, 'Exit the Royal Blue' the deliberate mistake in the spelling of Harringay West Station (I could see the place from my room at home) was only mentioned to me in an e-mail by my pal MIKE KAHN. Does this mean that people do not read these messages or simply there is no feedback at all or what? Incidentally, my friendship with Mike Kahn goes back to 1957 when we started school together as bewildered little boys. Considering that he has been a 'professional' Tottenham supporter all this time, still going regularly to games around England and Europe and I have been an Arsenal supporter for as long as I can remember, these partisan differenceshave never upset our relationship. Stationers' Company's School was not on the the 653 (then 253) bus route connecting the two grounds but it could boast a bus connection by means of the 233 (W4) route. So I wonder how many Old Stationers also enjoy a good friendship despite these soccer variations? Kind regards Alex Flemming 1964-1971 Dear Geraint peter@chantrell.plus.com 17th April 2015 I have recently received the February copy of The Old Stationer and was much surprised to see my picture at the tender age of 11 on the front cover. Fame at last I thought, but shortlived. I was sorry to find myself as one of the four pictures assembled as part of the obituary to Peter Bullen. We were friends and sat next to each other for some time and shared detentions when he was keen to look out of the window at the back of the class to watch a dog-fight in the air pretty close by. Two or three years back, Peter phoned to ask how things were with us. This was out of the blue since we had no contact for the past 60 years. It was pleasant to chat. So, I was sorry to learn he had died last year. The article by JOHN BATHURST brought back many memories and names long ago lost in the depths somewhere. It is a pretty good photograph too. Thank you for printing it. Kind Regards Peter Chantrell 1938-1943 Peter lives in Widemouth Bay near Bude in Cornwall. Not very many Old Stationers in these parts! Contemporaries of Peter that are members are, KEITH HEWETT 1938-1943, IAN JONES, 1938-1945and DENIS LOFTS 1938-1943. Stationers' 1stXI,1959 - Can anyone identify faces? (Photo courtesy of Mike Weatherley) 21
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