Ysgol Friars, Bangor Sixth Form 1990-92
Alun Williams
Hi there!!
Calling anybody who was in the Sixth Form of Ysgol Friars School, Bangor
between 1990 and 1992!!
It's Big Al here!! Is there any body out there???????
Willy Eckerslyke
Alun Williams wrote:
>
> Hi there!!
>
> Calling anybody who was in the Sixth Form of Ysgol Friars School, Bangor
> between 1990 and 1992!!
Not me. But I do have some rather fetching aerial photos of
the place (and various other bits of Bangor ay). I can scan
some if you've a use for them. Or just pop round to Menai
Bridge for a looksee sometime.
--
Regards, Willy.
ku.ca.rognab@801sso :liam-E
Illtud Daniel
Alun Williams <alun.w...@mcmail.com> wrote:
>Calling anybody who was in the Sixth Form of Ysgol Friars School, Bangor
>between 1990 and 1992!!
No, I was 6th form Tryfan '88-'90. Fancy a fight? :)
Alun Williams
Dear Willy
Willy Eckerslyke wrote in message <3593CA...@mam.nospam>...
>Not me. But I do have some rather fetching aerial photos of
>the place (and various other bits of Bangor ay). I can scan
>some if you've a use for them. Or just pop round to Menai
>Bridge for a looksee sometime.
>
Thanks for the offer!! Unfortunately I live in Scotland these days!! Any
chance of mailing them to me at alun.w...@mcmail.com
Cheers!!
Alun
PS Bangor lads rule the world!!!
Alun Williams
Name the place and time Illtud :)))))
PS What's the weather like in Oxford!!
Illtud Daniel wrote in message <6mvtai$mll$1...@news.ox.ac.uk>...
Willy Eckerslyke
Alun Williams wrote:
>
> Dear Willy
>
> Willy Eckerslyke wrote in message <3593CA...@mam.nospam>...
>
> >Not me. But I do have some rather fetching aerial photos of
> >the place (and various other bits of Bangor ay). I can scan
> >some if you've a use for them. Or just pop round to Menai
> >Bridge for a looksee sometime.
> Thanks for the offer!! Unfortunately I live in Scotland these days!!
I'll stick the lot on a web page one day, then you can take your pick.
Actually, Illtud's mention of Tryfan has got me wondering which is
which. I photographed them both (and David Hughes). One is in a large
squarish plot bounded by roads, somewhere near the tech. The other is
set in an altogether greener area towards Welsh Water and is being
rebuilt or extended.
Got some nice shots of the protest camp at brewery fields too.
Illtud Daniel
Vardre after school!
>PS What's the weather like in Oxford!!
Gloomy today. Glad I didn't go to Glastonbury!
Alun Williams
Dear Willy
>> Willy Eckerslyke wrote in message <3593CA...@mam.nospam>...
>I'll stick the lot on a web page one day, then you can take your pick.
>Actually, Illtud's mention of Tryfan has got me wondering which is
>which. I photographed them both (and David Hughes). One is in a large
>squarish plot bounded by roads, somewhere near the tech. The other is
>set in an altogether greener area towards Welsh Water and is being
>rebuilt or extended.
>Got some nice shots of the protest camp at brewery fields too.
The school surrounded by roads and by the tech (now called Coleg Menai would
you believe??) is Ysgol Tryfan as I'm sure Illtud will be happy to confirm.
The other one in the "greener area towards Welsh Water" is Ysgol Friars and
you're quite right about the whole site being extended.
I've been told that the old Lower Friars site on Ffriddoedd Road is be
closed and taken over by the afore-mentioned Coleg Menai (aka The Tech) with
the Lower Friars pupils transferring to the Lon-y-Bryn site. Whether this
is true or not I don't know but it seems to make sense. Then again 5 years
ago they were talking about turning Lower Friars into a Sixth Form College
so who knows??
Incidentally, talking of Welsh Water in Penrhosgarnedd, I used to live in
that big white house next door to it!! PS My mother is looking for tenants
for the two bedroomed granny flat if anyone's interested!!??
PS I never heard anything about a protest camp in Brewery Fields though??!!
Many a time I used to wander home totally pissed up through Brewery
Fields......
**SPAMGUARD!! Remove nospam suffix from my e-mail address to respond!!
Alun Williams
Dear Illtud
You're on!!! :))
Illtud Daniel wrote in message <6n0769$12e$1...@news.ox.ac.uk>...
>Vardre after school!
>
Willy Eckerslyke
Alun Williams wrote:
> The school surrounded by roads and by the tech (now called Coleg Menai would
> you believe??) is Ysgol Tryfan as I'm sure Illtud will be happy to confirm.
> The other one in the "greener area towards Welsh Water" is Ysgol Friars and
> you're quite right about the whole site being extended.
Thanks. Slides now labelled correctly.
> Incidentally, talking of Welsh Water in Penrhosgarnedd, I used to live in
> that big white house next door to it!!
The one with the slightly greenish roof (compared to all it's
neighbours)? Gotcha! Not a good photo though, I'm afraid.
> PS My mother is looking for tenants
> for the two bedroomed granny flat if anyone's interested!!??
Plenty of students about...
> PS I never heard anything about a protest camp in Brewery Fields though??!!
> Many a time I used to wander home totally pissed up through Brewery
> Fields......
Perhaps I've got its name wrong. The area stretching from behind Ysgol
Friars towards Welsh Water. There's a row about planning permission for
a huge number of houses. The camp is one field away to the north of the
school. It consists of a group of about five tents and a bloke looking
upwards in manner that says "Blow my tent down and your stinkin chopper
can chew on this length of 2 by 4."
geoff...@dial.pipex.com
Try 1982-84 and that's me.
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:08:56 +0100, "Alun Williams"
<alun.w...@mcmail.com> wrote:
>Hi there!!
>
>Calling anybody who was in the Sixth Form of Ysgol Friars School, Bangor
>between 1990 and 1992!!
>
Alun Williams
Sorry Geoff!! As you might have guessed well before my time I'm afraid!!
But saying that, you should see the place these days - even I don't
recognise it (Then again I am half-blind!!)
Alun
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Dafydd Price Jones
Mae geoff...@dial.pipex.com yn sgrifennu:
>Try 1982-84 and that's me.
You are a mere stripling 8-)%
I was in Friars long enough ago to remember Joe Soap, Charlie Pease,
Bunny, Sharkey and Capi.
Good old Sam Stretch taught me Maths in in the sixth form, Hywel Bebb
Cymraeg, and Bert Lear French.
I believe Bert, Hywel and Gomez (Biology) are still there. Can anyone
confirm?
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| Dafydd Price Jones
E-bost: dafy...@dafyddpj.demon.co.uk
Bangor lads am byth, ai!|
Illtud Daniel
Dafydd Price Jones <dafy...@dafyddpj.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I was in Friars long enough ago to remember Joe Soap, Charlie Pease,
>Bunny, Sharkey and Capi.
>Good old Sam Stretch taught me Maths in in the sixth form, Hywel Bebb
>Cymraeg, and Bert Lear French.
>
>I believe Bert, Hywel and Gomez (Biology) are still there. Can anyone
>confirm?
Hywel Bebb moved to Tryfan - I believe he retired a few years ago.
Alun Williams
I left Friars in 92 and I seem to remember that Gomez was retiring at last
from Friars that July, seemed to be awfully overdue as he was my
registration teacher and I loathed the bastard. Whether he's still there or
not I simply couldn't tell you, but my feeling is that he's left..
By the way didn't have a clue who any of the rest were, then again I am
sucking my virtual dummy and waving my virtual rattle while I type this :)))
Alun
>Mae geoff...@dial.pipex.com yn sgrifennu:
>I was in Friars long enough ago to remember Joe Soap, Charlie Pease,
>Bunny, Sharkey and Capi.
>I believe Bert, Hywel and Gomez (Biology) are still there. Can anyone
>confirm?
Gareth Owen
In article <DW2zHQAp...@dafyddpj.demon.co.uk>,
Dafydd Price Jones <dafy...@dafyddpj.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Mae geoff...@dial.pipex.com yn sgrifennu:
>>Try 1982-84 and that's me.
>
> You are a mere stripling 8-)%
> Bunny, Sharkey and Capi.
> Cymraeg, and Bert Lear French.
>
> confirm?
Wasn't it Herbie Lear. And if Gomez is still there he's a lot younger than I
remember him to be.
Too many of these names are still familiar after so long (73-75). Our school
days leave scars.
Gareth
--
Gareth Owen , Network Systems Group , LIS Academic Systems ,
Aston University , Birmingham , UK
Dafydd Price Jones
Mae Gareth Owen <ow...@aston.ac.uk> yn sgrifennu:
>Wasn't it Herbie Lear.
His name's Herbert. My brother (who taught there for a year or so) tells
me that staff members called him Bert.
He's a great guy, with the filthiest mind of any teacher I've ever known.
(Bert, not my brother!!)
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| Dafydd Price Jones
E-bost: dafy...@dafyddpj.demon.co.uk
Mistar Llyr am byth!|
geoff...@dial.pipex.com
No, you got the name right. We had people chained to concrete posts,
tree houses, the lot.
V entertaining.
Geoff.
geoff...@dial.pipex.com
Great guy he maybe - but I know someone who caught herpes from
drinking water from Herbie Scruff's empty coffee cup - or so he
claims.
:-(
Geoff
geoff...@dial.pipex.com
I had Lear, but the others are unkown to me. Except Gomez. Let me
tell you a story:
A mate of mine's brother HATED Gomez. In an effort to get his own back
he ran an ad in the Chronicle offering for sale a 'Mez Automatic
Washing Machine Unwanted Competition Prize, attached a ludicrously low
price and included the vertiable Gomez's phone number. After about a
week of the ad running, he phoned up Gomez enquiring after said
washing machine. Apparenty Gomez was on the verge of a nervous
breakdown and screamed down the phone at him!
Kids!
Geoff.
>Mae geoff...@dial.pipex.com yn sgrifennu:
>>Try 1982-84 and that's me.
>
>You are a mere stripling 8-)%
>I was in Friars long enough ago to remember Joe Soap, Charlie Pease,
>Bunny, Sharkey and Capi.
>Good old Sam Stretch taught me Maths in in the sixth form, Hywel Bebb
>Cymraeg, and Bert Lear French.
>
>I believe Bert, Hywel and Gomez (Biology) are still there. Can anyone
>confirm?
>--
>| Dafydd Price Jones
> E-bost: dafy...@dafyddpj.demon.co.uk
geoff...@dial.pipex.com
I thought I knew the family that lived there. The Hendersons was it?
Before you had it? I live opposite top of Coed Mawr hill btw.
>Incidentally, talking of Welsh Water in Penrhosgarnedd, I used to live in
>that big white house next door to it!! PS My mother is looking for tenants
>for the two bedroomed granny flat if anyone's interested!!??
>
>PS I never heard anything about a protest camp in Brewery Fields though??!!
>Many a time I used to wander home totally pissed up through Brewery
>Fields......
>
Dafydd Price Jones
Mae geoff...@dial.pipex.com yn sgrifennu am:
Gomez:
Yes, Gomez. He was prone to some practical jokes, wasn't he?
I remember a couple of lads writing a letter to Aunty Olwen of the North
Wales Chronicle, the gist of which I remember as:
Dear Aunty Olwen,
My name is Peter Martin.
I will be eight years old next Tuesday.
I have a teddy bear named Capi*, and my best friend Jack** lives next
door.
If I won the five shilling postal order I would join Plaid Cymru as a
junior member***.
Your friend,
Peter.
The letter was published, and Gomez did win a five shilling postal
order!
* Capi - the Latin master, a bit like John Cleese in "Life of Brian", so
hardly a teddy bear.
** Jack - the Physics master, with whom Gomez did not get on -
allegedly.
*** Gomez was not best known for nationalist tendencies.
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| Dafydd Price Jones
E-bost: dafy...@dafyddpj.demon.co.uk
Old Boy of Friars am byth, ai!|
Alun Williams
Yep, we bought the house from the Ann and Gwyn Henderson in August 1988 and
they moved to a place in Menai Bridge.
The strange thing is, and this illustrates how small N.Wales is, that my
mother bought a hat for her wedding fromt the Henderson's shop in 1968, and
there we were 20 years later buying their gaff!! Wonderful, eh??
Oh, and Bethan Henderson married one of my mother's colleagues at Coleg
Menai some years back (Gilroy somebody) but she apparently she's still
running about with her maiden name.
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