When I left school I had only completed two terms in the Lower Sixth. I had met my wife to be and decided to seek a ‘quick fortune’ in order to get married. It did not quite work out like that, of course. Anyway, after a selection of jobs in Accountancy, HM Inland Revenue and self-employed in my Dad’s Landscaping …

I have selected a couple of stories involving cricket and our early time in hospitality when we were very much ‘hands-on’. Also some non-commercial memories from my export days. A cricketing memory from about 1964 – this was a Priory Park 2nd X1 away game at Wisborough Green. I had gone in at No3 joining the surviving opener Vic and …

I left the School in 1966 having achieved 8 O levels, 3 A levels and an S level. I thoroughly enjoyed my schooldays and have fond memories of the school. I joined the CCF and rapidly became the store-man so I could have a smoke in peace at break times in the air raid shelter used as a store. I spent the first …

My wonderful teachers at Chichester, Mr Gahan and Mr Smart, would have been mortified to hear that, in Doug Murgatroyd’s words, I “got bored” with Latin and Greek at Oxford. Languages, including dead ones, remain a passion of mine (I got GCSE Irish a couple of years ago). But I had an existential crisis at Oxford, right down to the …

Short summary of my life since leaving the School just after Christmas 1960: First I worked as a junior clerk at Graylingwell where I met our friend Gregson who was under treatment there; then I went up to Sidney Sussex, Cambridge to study Classics specializing in Ancient Philosophy in Part Two of the Tripos. Just before Finals 15 kilogrammes of …

I went up to University College London to read Economics. Big disappointment! The degree course was much about every subject, but Economics; London an inhospitable place for a country bumpkin and academe not really my world. I graduated with a modest 2ii – more than I merited! I worked as a builder’s labourer to get fit for National Service which …

Dick Francis – Episode 1 – My seven years at School  I joined in September 1963, complete with bright green blazer, cap and tie and found myself in the first form of Ken Murch (“Bogue”). I travelled to and from school daily on the train which meant that I was allowed to leave at the first bell whereas others had …

On 30 January, 2016 the membership secretary, John Child, received this email from Marcus Wigan in Melbourne, who is keen to join us: Old Cicestrians’ membership – proof of student status: “Anyway the costs and complexity of trying to pay an annual fee from Australia are sufficiently challenging to dissuade me otherwise”. Details 1957-1960 State scholar in mathematics 1960  Hertford …

I’m still not sure about writing this. But Doug Murgatroyd asked me (again), this time from hospital, to write something along the lines of ‘where are they now?’ Where I am now is Hong Kong. Twenty-two years retired from a twenty-year career with the Hong Kong colonial government. Most of that retirement time has been spent in Hawaii. My apologies …