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Reflections on the College’s current success by an all-but octogenarian former Headmaster
Wednesday, 17 November 2010The recent great successes enjoyed by the College – surely a source of joy to all of us who love the place – have caused the Press to suggest that it was previously a ‘backwater’. So it seems right to refer to the work done in the last fifty years, that work itself laid on earlier foundations. After all, the decade before then produced Lord Alexander, Lord Skidelsky and Bishop Bavin (to say nothing of Sir John Chilcot) among others! And these last fifty years began with a visit from the Queen. Backwater...?!?
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Commemoration Day 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008For my report on this year’s Commemoration day, I had resolved not to begin by mentioning the weather - as it seems I so often do. It would, however, be ungracious not to acknowledge the surprising and un-forecast sunshine that bathed Brighton College on 22nd June 2008. Whilst the rest of the UK was apparently awash with the accurately predicted wind and rain, Brighton was beautifully sunny and warm - so there... I’ve mentioned it.
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OB Day 2006
Friday, 16 June 2006Attendance at these things seem so often to be reliant on the weather, and this year the sun certainly appeared to have delivered a good assortment of OBs to the College on a glorious September morning.
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OBA Sponsored College Rugby and Netball Tour of South Africa 2005
Tuesday, 30 August 2005All the efforts in planning and training were put under threat by doubts over our departure day due to the strike by South African Airways. A phone call at 11am on the morning of departure gave us the go ahead. The tour was up and running. However, another obstacle awaited us is Johannesburg in the form of passport control, which took two and half hours to clear. This put enormous pressure on catching our connecting flight to Cape Town and only the pleadings of an old man and the size of the party allowed us to win the day and board the plane half an hour late.
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Simon Smith, Second Master
Monday, 27 September 2010Simon Smith has decided to retire at the end of the academic year after 38 years of outstanding service to the college, for the past eleven as Second Master.
He has been a wonderful support to me in my five years as Head Master, providing wise counsel, good humour and kindly reassurance throughout. My predecessors, Bill Blackshaw, John Leach and Anthony Seldon, also owe him a terrific debt of gratitude. He has served each of them with great loyalty. Above all, Simon has served this community. He has made time for colleagues and pupils in equal measure, supporting them when times are tough and admonishing them only when necessary.
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OBA Annual Dinner 2006
Saturday, 25 November 2006What an evening! If you don't believe me then just take a look the ‘photos on this website, you will see plenty of animated smiling faces which, for me, sums up the purpose of events like this. Mind you with a combination of Ann Widdecombe as guest speaker, over 150 guests and a large contingent of 1981’ers what more could one expect?
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A Meeting - "Down Under"
Sunday, 16 April 2006Rev W W Davidson (H. 1934-39) meets Gordon Fenwick (W. & C. 1933-37) in Australia
It was between 8 and 9 am on Thursday 16th April that I received a telephone call. A voice- unfamiliar - announced that he was speaking from Adelaide, South Australia.
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When did you last visit Brighton College?
Wednesday, 01 June 2005
Even if you have not been back for five years, much has changed. Walk with me through the front arch and see what has happened in one generation of College boys and girls.
As we enter the front quad a sense of peace and calm immediately settles on you after the busy Eastern Road traffic, (so long as you don’t visit in the chaotic drop off and pick up times at the start and finish of the school day). From the front quad nothing seems to have changed. The same graceful mid-nineteenth century buildings designed by Gilbert Scott. The roofs of those old buildings and those of the chapel are now being re-tiled, a testament to the quality of work all those years ago in an aggressive salt laden coastal environment. Let’s hope the new roof will last another 150 years!
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- Pacelli and Granville in The Noise Next Door 22/05/12
- Cricketer Cup 2012 17/06/12
- Cyril Gray 28/06/12
- John Spencer Retirement Cricket Match 29/06/12
- Newquay Surf 7s 2012 30/06/12
- Worthing 7s 2012 28/07/12
- Pioneers Club: Gravetye Manor Garden Tour & Afternoon Tea 10/08/12
- Cronk Cunis U21 15s Tournament 2012 27/08/12
- Peter Rumney Memorial Game 2012 01/09/12
- Sussex Schools Cup 02/09/12