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17 Jun 15
23:27
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In 4 years I had one trip to the Transport Museum in south London, The Science Museum in south Kensington, and the annual sports day at a different ground as our 'playground' wasn't big enough for all 400 of us.
Not once were we taken to a local church or synagogue to see how they worked.
These days, kids get taken to mosques to enhance their education.
WTF???
A coachload came up from Devon to London a few months ago.
A complete waste of a day.
You wait until they get a return coachload of south London kids.
But if you have an unauthorised day off from school your parents got fined £60...EACH.
You only pay £60 if you're a one parent family.
Not once were we taken to a local church or synagogue to see how they worked.
These days, kids get taken to mosques to enhance their education.
WTF???
A coachload came up from Devon to London a few months ago.
A complete waste of a day.
You wait until they get a return coachload of south London kids.
But if you have an unauthorised day off from school your parents got fined £60...EACH.
You only pay £60 if you're a one parent family.
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don't make fathers day cards in plymouth primary schools
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A trip to Cork with the Brothers to stock up on new shillelaghs and maces to crack us with..
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do Kerry dogs still have flat noses from chasing parked cars
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Never had a single official school day out. Got lucky in lower sixth form when I had the last 3 periods after lunch free one day a week. Meant you could try and sneak out at one for the rest of the day off. But the only way out was to leave through the girls side of the school and you were not supposed to be in that part. Normally went to the bookies.
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Late bloomer with the girls as I was hopeless around them having never been in a mixed class at school.
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hope it was an Independent bookie
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Slippy ran his book from school. Class, from the Dulwich one..
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Slough sewage treatment works
Mars factory, Slough Trading Estate Slough College of Further Education (now the University of the Thames Valley) |
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The Office shirley
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The tuck shop more than likely. A right Billy Bunter our Slips was..
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1970s. Only factories. No firm located their Office in Slough then, because no office worker would ever live there.
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the usual stuff like safari parks and castles. Those in their final year used to have the choice of a cruise or skiing for 2 weeks, but they'd knocked it on the head by the time it was our turn.
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cruise or skiing? What kind of a school was that BB. The only time we got out of school was to go swimming once every so often for PE. You had to walk to the local swimming pool which was just a few hundreds yards away.
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80's, one trip to france is all can remember. Had weeks work experience if that counts.
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60s here. Had various days out with a visit to the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre the one that sticks in my mind.
We also had a 10 day cruise round the Scottish isles on the Devonia. Enjoyed that. |
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All my school principals were priests so the only school trips we ever had in my school were summer trips to irish speaking gaeltachts in Donegal but you I was never very good at irish at school and even if my parents could have afforded the cost I would not have wanted to go. Anyway it was four weeks during holiday time and you even had to go to school while there and you were lodged in several family homes there where the owners were strict and had you in bed at 9. It was my idea of an into school trip. Main reason any of the boys went was because they might see a girl as schoolgirls from convent schools also went there.
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Meant not my idea of a school trip. Used to hear all sorts of stories of what classmates did when the new term started. Used to brag about how they courted girls but they were full of it and were told off if they misbehaved and the height of their fun was probably a pillow fight in an all boys bedroom of bunk beds where lights were out earlier than in a prison.
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Mid 1950s. The teacher was an ex merchant seaman and took us on a trip to Liverpool to see the docks which were full of ships and to ride on the overhead railway.
Sadly all long gone now. |
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Mid Fifties
A trip to the lakes,only ever school trip.A ride on Ullswater & still remember it whenever I'm over that way.Then stopped off to see a waterfall but can't for the life of me think where that was. |
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Went to Box Hill and Chessington Zoo.
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Sometimes we use to go on these mystery coach trips, it was so exciting getting on a coach and not know where we were going ......... but these days I would absolutely hate to get on a coach and not know where I was going !
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at Primary school a day trip to Calais on the ferry (puked),
and a trip to the beach to gather fossils (bad sunburn) |
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allpoints
18 Jun 15 11:13 Mid Fifties A trip to the lakes,only ever school trip.A ride on Ullswater & still remember it whenever I'm over that way.Then stopped off to see a waterfall but can't for the life of me think where that was. Probably 'Aira Force' one of the biggest in the Lake District. |
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Stonehenge
Hampton Court The Isle Of Wight Caernarvon Castle 3 day geography field trip to Dover There were others arranged but I was usually at the races with Dad if I didn't fancy the trip. I went skiing to Italy and France also which were great fun. The teachers used to get completely wasted as well as the pupils. |
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Chester Zoo.
And an England schoolboy international at Wembley. I bought a rosette but left it on the coach and someone nicked it. Would anyone with any information regarding the theft, please contact Wembley police station. Would have been about 1970. |
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The Gulbenkian Exhibition at The Tate was great , Macbeth at Ardingly College was not.
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