I assume you mean William Roache who plays him, I looked him up and he was born almost exactly two months before me. I see he was an officer in the Army. I was in the RAF for my NS and didn't reach t… (View Post)

I am surprised that you are surprised. Having a PC enables me to keep up with things I am interested in and I keep in touch with several contemporaries by E-mail. I don't intend to go into a shell un… (View Post)

When I passed for the RGS in 1943 I had a scholarship but my parents were expected to pay £5 a term, That finished when the 1944 Education Act came in. I still have the prospectus and the paperwork i… (View Post)

I started at the RGS in 1943 and the year before the new head Mr E R Tucker (a Welshman) had changed the school's winter game from football to rugby. That caused a big upset at the time which some ha… (View Post)

If all this were happening on April 1st it would make some sense. (View Post)