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At JRGS I was in the lacrosse school team from about the
second year when it
started up until I left in the Upper Sixth. I seem to recall a chap who helped
with the sports called Sid [Bishop], who was a green keeper at Mitcham or such where!
Can anyone remember him?
On leaving JRGS I went to do an Applied Physics degree on a "thin
sandwich"
course which meant six months each year at Marconi in Chelmsford, and six months
each year at Brighton College of Technology (now Brighton University.
It was a great way to get a degree and meant I was paid for six months of the year
by Marconi. It went on four years and then I joined Marconi staff at the end in
1969.
I had wanted to go into micro-electronics at the new English Electric
factory near Chelmsford at Witham, where I had worked for one of the six-month
assignments. But Arnie Wienstock and GEC had taken over EE & Marconi and closed
down almost all research, so I ended up in computing, building a communications
system. I have never escaped from computers ever since - but it has been fairly
successful none the less! I ended up in telephone billing systems, and have traveled the world for the last nine years in this business and seen some lovely
and some rotten places!
I now live in Camberley in Surrey; you can see pictures of my family on our
website.
It is great to have made contact with people again after all these years - I
heard about the closing down of JRGS and the final reunion from another old boy
- Allan Turl who had kept contact with my father in New Addington through his
mother. I have now found him on the web site as well now and am trying to
contact him. Unfortunately I could not go to the reunion as I was away in the
Middle East working at the time.
Camberley, Surrey, June 2002;
email
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