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11/02/2021 - Latest news -

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. |
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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. |
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Over 100,000 hits not bad for a niche interest site
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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.
Coton
Radio
"BTW has anyone ever mentioned “Coton Radio” about 1963/4 it
went on the air broadcasting, using basic audio amps, through
the earth and neutral of the power sockets and anyone who
connected a speaker to the neutral and earth was able to receive
the music and commentary, usually Rugby songs (sport Rugby not
place Rugby). I think it was closed down when the warden picked
it up on his TV, or someone a few villages away picked it up.
Not exactly certain what the reason was but it only ran for a
short while before being closed." ? That was our pirate radio
and I think it predated Radio
Caroline and Simon Dee in March 1964.(Bob Stewart (1963))
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