Well Gang this is the year !!!! Alan - What can we do to help, as the great day comes closer? Please don't be afraid to ask, we all know we cannot do enough...
Hi all ex elliott pupils, I have just found the link and the group from friends reunited and just had to join the group and catch on the elliott news. I left...
Happy New Year to all. Apologies for not responding sooner Andy but 2004 has not started too well. I'll be updating the website soon having received some...
Sorry to hear that Alan and I do hope things will quickly improve for you. Yes we are getting around two or three new members a week, although the group has...
Happy New Year all :-) Now, this is a delicate subject, and wouldn't want to open a hornets nest, but.... would I be the only person in the world who actually...
What a great idea Caroline - Like you I would be up for that, if the school could do it. Now unlike you, I enjoyed the Spam Fritters as well as the Sponge ...
... Oh yes, I liked that too, even though you could pick more lumps out of that than the custard! ... I wonder if they still do? ... A question mark is right....
Mmmm maybe is it because I'm even older, that I remember the hot pies that came from the tea stall opposite the Green Man pub more so than the school dinners?...
... The Green Man tea stall -- as soon as I could get off the school grounds (and had money to buy food) that was my favourite lunch (dinner to the non-US...
... Ha-ha! "Spotty Dick" sounds so much more unappetising than "Spotted Dick"!!! No wonder non-UK peeps find it hard to stomach :-) Caroline [Non-text portions...
Oooh cornish pasties......steak and kidney with brown sauce....which btw tastes so differently today...bring back the real brown sauce !!! [Non-text portions...
I'm new to this so bear with me. Good to read all your messages and have the old grey matter kick-started. How well I remember the delights of school dinners...
How many of the readers either went to Riversdale school or went swimming at the old baths in Wandsworth opposite the Ram Brewery and yes it is still there...
... Unless my memory is playing games with me, and the pictures painted here of the green tea stall opposite the Green Man are just so vivid, but I think I...
Geoff I am 'young' enough to remember the Wandsworth swimming pool, the Greyhound track and King George's Open-Air pool. Unfortunately they are all long gone....
... Ahhh :-) ... I remember sitting on the crest of Putney Hill, looking down towards Putney High Street, with my best mate Sharon and singing the songs from...
Although most are scattered accross the UK/World, I still have to live in Wandsworth!!! If you want to know what's there and what's not...... Caroline Tresman...
... That would have been a long way to go? But maybe they had knocked down all the Wandsworth pools at that time? I used to bunk off school to go to the Putney...
As I lived on the Ashburton, I never enjoyed the delights? of school dinners but it seems I may have the chance to experience them after all if this idea takes...
The stall Caroline is still there and still green, well lets put it this way we had a reunion at the Green Man last year in the summer and it was there then ...
You maybe cannot skate Caroline but do you still smoke? I remember the Latchmere and Putney pools also what about the one at Roehampton. I remember the school...
Enjoyed reading all your memories of school dinners. Somethings never change! By the time you get to visit on the 19th July the new security fencing should be...
I remember the semolina with the lumps and strawberry jam with great affection. Those were the days I only lived across the road in Hayward Gardens but I used...
I was also a Hayward Gdns brat. By the playground - where I broke my arm once. I used to stay at school for lunch and remember well the semolina also the...
I was at the Elliot from 1962 - 1969 and I have some photos from various years trips etc plus a photo of the Top of the Form group of which I was a member. I...
I am glad the Green Man will be open for the celebrations I spent many a happy hour there. Also at a pub on the common instead of cross country. Can anyone...
hi iam pleased to here someone else rembers the green man time.david hammerton zumschluchtern <zumschluchtern@...> wrote:I am glad the Green Man will...
