England : West Yorkshire Forum WALK - Stoodley Pike from Hebden Bridge, now takes place Sun 7th Apr

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potsy

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Well I am getting some practice in before the Spring/Summer.

8+ miles today along with a few slightly shorter walks in recent weeks.

Just need to lose a couple more stone to be back to my previous best :whistle:

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Possible to start a new thread on any planned future event so that it gets generally noticed?

(the initial post could have a link back to here)
 

Pale Rider

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We were taught about trig points in geography at school, including a trudge up the Worcestershire Beacon to see one.

Very unusual for grammar school boys to get out of the classroom in those days.

It was all talk and chalk.
 
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Very unusual for grammar school boys to get out of the classroom in those days.

It was all talk and chalk.
Very true in my case - I can only remember once in 7 years! We were studying Romeo and Juliet for English Lit. and we went to watch that.

Actually, I'm not sure that we DID watch the play at a theatre after all... :whistle: The school had a projector and used to hire films. I think we probably watched the 1968 Zeffirelli film. PS Yes, we did - I developed a huge teenage crush on Olivia Hussey (Juliet), or 'Brazen Huss(e)y' as I nicknamed her at the time! :blush:
 
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Pale Rider

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There was another trip I now recall - an open air Shakespeare at Ludlow Castle.

The tale there is it started to rain, and a shear dress worn by Gayle Hunicutt became close to see through, causing much excitement among us bunch of pre-pubescent teenagers.

The production also starred Bernard Bresslaw, who I bumped into about 20 years later in a pub in theatreland.

I mentioned Hunicutt's dress, which he remembered well.

He said the cast asked her to consider changing it at the interval.

She said a change might confuse the audience, so she insisted on continuing with the wet dress.

The show, as these actor types say, must go on.
 
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Very true in my case - I can only remember once in 7 years! We were studying Romeo and Juliet for English Lit. and we went to watch that.

Actually, I'm not sure that we DID watch the play at a theatre after all... :whistle: The school had a projector and used to hire films. I think we probably watched the 1968 Zeffirelli film. PS Yes, we did - I developed a huge teenage crush on Olivia Hussey (Juliet), or 'Brazen Huss(e)y' as I nicknamed her at the time! :blush:
They did let us out of the cage a few times.
Class bus trip to Lancaster to see the Lord of the Flies film which we were reading for O level.
Walk just over the road for most of the school to the cinema run by two old dears to see:
Waterloo
Tora Tora Tora
Cromwell

As they were considered educational, though there are few films I would trust to learn about history.

Bizarrely, the school always side-stepped the most interesting history that could have brought the often drily-taught subject to life - in it's very foundations - it was founded by Protestant burning Bloody Mary. I guess they worried that the lessons might get a bit fraught. Cowards.


I think we need a grammar school boys (and girls) thread

There were a few other trips in truth. Halle Orchestra at the Free Trade Hall, the odd bit of shakespeare, government lectures at UMIST in manchester.
 
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The production also starred Bernard Bresslaw, who I bumped into about 20 years later in a pub in theatreland.

I mentioned Hunicutt's dress, which he remembered well.
Cripes - talk about a small world - clearly a formative experience for you both - am off to trawl google for a pic.

Closest our boys grammar school got to that was a cricket match between our school and a girl's school - still no idea what their school was - seem to remember that the girls walked out in fairly short skirts.

I have never had any interest in cricket though.
 
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