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This board is priceless.Brian Burton sends an unusual photo of the dining hall.-----------------------------------------------------50 replies yes FIFTY.Well done Logan Blake 1963-67
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Logan! as Charlie said earlier, when did the title of the topic have any relevance to the postings??????Mickoff
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Having spent some years adjacent to the partition between the Dining Hall and the Jellicoe Library, I gained the impression that above the wainscote the wall? was quite flimsy. Maybe only a fabric...
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Did that wall have pictures on it? I cant remember. I do seem to remember it was painted duck egg blue (I think).Congratulations Norm on your 100th posting.....shy? my arse.Logan Blake 1963-67
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Yes Norm,I second Logan, many congratulations on 100+ posts.Quote:Having spent some years adjacent to the partition between the Dining Hall and the Jellicoe Library, I gained the impression that above...
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Norm 100! not bad, my advice, get a hobby,Mickoff
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Norm the wall was not undulating, it was that bloody bromide in the tea that gave that effect, better than cannabis.Mr Airy Fairy of Glasgow.
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Sorry fellas, I am just boring and you are right I must really get a life.Norm R (Drake 1954 - 5
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Norm don't say that, because where does that leave me with nearly 540 posts, super boring.Mickoff
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The great charm of this site relies on the utter distain of the contributors for the subject under discussion.Vivat RHS!
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Hi Rob,Great to see you back. How was Mauritius? Did you leave any beer for the incoming vacationers? I spent a few days in the Lake District, visiting William Wordsworth's home when the daffodils...
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Rod I can answer that it is sort of fishy!Mickoff
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Mickoff, good COD, now I have your atTENCHunhave we not PERCHance done this some PLAICE else?Any more snide remarks and EE'L start CARPing on. MULLET over a WHALE . . .
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Confused...As said elsewhere the head and CPO would sit on a raised table at the end of the room - where the windows are in the picture but I can not remember the windows there was the end of the...
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Pip,If you look on page two of this thread Mr Ingram advises that the dining hall was shortened in the 1950's to accomodate the library.
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NigelThanks for that, sods law this is the first one I have not ploughed through all the pages and when I dont I miss the vital info.... still at least the eyes did not decieve me!!!lyours ayePip
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Hi Pip,Our warmest welcome to the board. There were a few Drakes I knew from your era; Lattimer was one of them.cheers!Rod
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Welcome PipI am glad you decided to post before you read the whole board, otherwise we might have waited a long time for youi first utterances - I trust you can scan read and have an inbuilt dross...
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Pip welcome! & don't bother reading the back issues, just jump in feet first & make an ass of yourself; like the rest of usMickoff.
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