It all began for me in 1936. What a year with the Abdication and Jesse Owens winning four gold medals under Hitler’s nose at the Berlin Olympics.  Dark clouds of World War II were gathering and in 1941 my family fled Portsmouth following two massive raids by the Luftwaffe.  My dad, a Petty Officer on the destroyer HMS Vanessa, was …

John (Jack) Hardy attended Chichester High from 1954 to 1961. He was not among the top academics, but contributed in sports, perennially coming second to Jamieson in the Sports Day mile. He played rugby for the school, West Sussex and Sussex at the colt level. His main sport was football and he was top scorer for the First XI during …

I left the School in 1961 and immediately went travelling in northern France with class mate Sean Irwin. We got on well together – the only discord being over whether to boil our night time Nescafé in front of the tent or whether to drink it lukewarm; statesmen have let less significant issues escalate into all-out war. In the case …

Keith Upton 1st XI Cricket 1961  Hi Doug, Trust you are keeping well. I was very sorry to hear that Roger Q passed away recently, and this coupled with my other school rugby coaches Taffy and Rod, brought an era to an end.  They were all great guys! Some time ago you asked me for a précis of my life …

Paul and his family   On leaving school in 1962 I went to work in the City of London for a wheat and grain buying firm.  At a party in Datchet in late ’63 I met with two friends from school, Lew Bell and Alan Polson, and we all decided that we had had enough of working in London and …