05/12/2020 - Latest news -

No Christmas mail this year, Happy and healthy Christmas and New Year to all.

You may notice the website has changed. No more Lists and less content. Regretfully interest has waned so its now just basic.

05/05/20

I have tried to negotiate a free hosting with my providers, to no avail. 

A number of "Old Cotonians" have offered financial support, for which I am grateful. One of my major problems is the programme I use to build sites is near redundancy, I do not have the time or inclination to learn new technologies. In view of this I will endeavour to keep it going but some features may disappear.

The Years roll on and sadly we do not, alas as we are all getting older, and sadly some of our old friends are off to "the ultimate apprentice school".The amount of contacts made is now near zero, the web site has been a lot of fun and pleasure to me and many, but I am closing it in 2020. Someone should consider opening a Facebook group.  If you can get in touch with your old friends , do so! and its never too late even if it has been 50 years!! -  phone a friend!  One of the most satisfying and empowering things that has come about by involving myself in "Old Cotonians" is the rekindling of old relationships. You to, by a simple act of contacting that "Old Friend" could get the same satisfaction and delight.Don't just send that annual Christmas card - contact them, see them, meet them , life is too short, we are getting uncomfortably close to the ending our "time". 2020 now 60 years since I started at Coton, but still I love the memories that we all share. If nothing else I'm sure we all send out the same thought to all - Health and Happiness.   

The cost of running the website has been born by me and to some extent funded from the sale of CD/DVD and donations

I have two tales - both about Coton food.

 The first is one I heard of, but have not had authenticated. The fried eggs at breakfast 1958/9 where so hard one could use then as shoe leather. Well it seems that things got to head and in unison - and spontaneously 100 + eggs where pinned (using drawing pins) to the wall of the OLD canteen. After which the eggs improved.

Horse Meat Pie 
    During 1962/3 the menu included a meat pie whose main constituent was Corned Beef, not to bad - but somewhere in the cooking process  things seemed to go wrong because this could be smelt from the top of the drive (about 1/2 a mile). leading to it being named "Horsemeat Pie" Again a spontaneous refusal to eat the said thing resulted in it going off the menu.