[BITList] school days

[s14engine]

I haven't heard the complete story of your schooling in india,  john
how did that come about, how old were you when you started and left - then where?
you have only given us snippets over the years. I for one would be fascinated to hear all about it.
it's a story about a gone by age [never to be repeated].
if you don't mind - please tell all you can remember, not to forget school friends, who they were and where they ended up.
do you have re-unions and a web site?

ct


From: John Feltham 
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 12:43 AM
To: bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com 
Subject: Re: [BITList] English cricket bat industry under threat after EU directive bans export of willow - Telegraph


G'day Hugh, 

On 18/04/2010, at 4:10 AM, HUGH wrote:

> I reckon the English cricket bat industry stopped being that the day they handed it over to India.


You are aware that I did all of my 'high school' in India, near where the tea comes from!


It was a boarding school where games were played according to the seasons.


We had a local man who looked after all of our sports equipment and the sports fields themselves.


At the start of the cricket season all the bats (imported from England) were ready for play having been scraped down with a one sided razor-blade and then liberally coated with linseed oil.


The man had been there for donkeys years. Indeed since he was a 'chokra'.


He was known to one and all as "Cricket".


Read on at this web page from the Centenary Magazine.


http://vsdh.org/vsdh/magazines/vs_centenary/(30).html




ooroo








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