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Memories of Brighton College
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Correspondence -
Memories of Brighton College
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Written by Ernest L French (C. 1939-44)
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Monday, 01 January 2007 |
In August 1939 I had already got my uniform to go to King's College, Wimbledon, when my parents decided that war was imminent and that I should become a boarder at a school not close to London.
I arrived at Chichester House, Brighton College, a very few days after war was declared. Apart from drawing thick 'black out' curtains at dusk things were pretty much normal. I had to 'fag' for a couple of senior boys who had a study called 'hell', just inside the door from the quad. This entailed lighting their fire, running messages, dubbing their football boots, blancoing and cleaning the brass on their OTC uniforms. Prefects could beat with a slipper for minor offences.
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Correspondence -
Memories of Brighton College
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Written by Tom Churcher (H. 1943-48)
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
 In November 1942 an appointment had been made by my parents for me to be interviewed by the then Headmaster, Walter Hett. A daunting prospect for a 12 year old. We lived on the other side of Hove so Kemp Town was unknown to me but I did manage to get off the bus at the bottom of College Road. My first contact at the College was the then porter, Smart. On hearing that my appointment was at 11 o’clock he looked at the hall clock; it was ten past eleven! I can still see the look on Smart’s face. I don’t remember ever being late at school again in all of my 5½ years there.
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Correspondence -
Memories of Brighton College
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Written by John Page (Master, 1954-85)
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 “I am he that came out of the army.” (I Samuel 4. 16)
posted - 17th June 2005
Many Old Brightonians I have met during my retirement have memories about their experiences in the CCF and I thought this third – and final – instalment of reminiscences over the last fifty years should deal with the Corps and why I became involved.
When I joined the Common Room in 1954 the CCF was run as a private fiefdom by Lt. Col. V G Smyth, DSO, OBE. He had enjoyed a distinguished career of 34 years as a regular officer in the Royal Artillery, serving in the Middle East, India and China. The calculating skills needed as a Gunner were useful in teaching Mathematics to lower sets and his travels equipped him to include personal experiences in his Geography lessons. According to current folklore he could be distracted from the syllabus by appropriate questions and persuaded to tell stories about his different campaigns, particularly with Allenby in Palestine, 1917, where a Turkish shell passed through his legs without exploding.
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Correspondence -
Memories of Brighton College
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Written by Martin Jones (staff: 1977-98)
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Sunday, 19 June 2005 |
Brighton College...
is the oldest indigenous Sussex public school. Founded in 1845, the College is 3 years older than Lancing, 4 years older than Hurstpierpoint, 13 years older than Ardingly and 22 years older than Eastbourne. Christ's Hospital, founded in 1552, moved out of London only in 1902.
is responsible for most charities enjoying special tax status in English law. A running battle between Brighton College and the Inland Revenue from 1916 to 1926 produced a series of changes to tax law in the 1918 Income Tax Act, the 1921 and 1922 Finance Acts and, above all, section 24 of the 1927 Finance Act. Brighton College v Marriott went all the way to the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords (November 1925). In recognition of Brighton's exceptional achievement, the Headmasters' Conference met at the College in December 1926.
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Correspondence -
Memories of Brighton College
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Written by John Page (Master, 1954-85)
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Friday, 28 January 2005 |
“I have been young, and now I am old.” (Psalms XXXVII; 25)
posted - 28th January 2005
In the last issue of the Pelican I wrote about the Remembrance Service in November 2004 and the changes since my first in 1954. I had been appointed in January of that year to help with the four members of the Sixth Form who were taking Latin at A Level. Norman Frith, a Classical Exhibitioner at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, had started the course but found it too much of a commitment in addition to his duties as Head of the History Department. The small class included Timothy Bavin and Robert Alexander, and intellects like theirs needed little extra instruction. For their essays on Roman History I used titles I had been set four years previously and, more importantly, the notes I had taken down when my Greats tutor had tried to remedy some of the inadequacies in my own efforts.
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