The Portsmouth Kite Festival was too windy for many.
Month: August 2019
August 9 2019
The sky-walk and viewing platform at the Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
August 8 2019
Portsmouth Naval Memorial detail. Southsea seafront. It’s as though these guys are looking out for all of us.
August 7 2019
Same difference
August 6 2019
Beckenham in my hand
August 5 2019
A new shop in the High Street
August 4 2019
If yesterday was about the past then today has been about the future
August 3 2019
Mum. January 3 1928 – August 4 2014. Always in our hearts.
August 2 2019
Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery
August 1 2019
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
July 31 2019
Harris Academy (formerly: Kelsey Park Sports College; Kelsey Park School for Boys; Kelsey Park Secondary Modern School for Boys; Alexandra School for Boys.)
At the end of summer 1969 I began my secondary school education on this site.
The School had opened the year before transferring all the teachers and boys from Alexandra Secondary School based in Parish Lane Penge, to the grand location of Elgood Playing Fields in “posh” Beckenham and granted a name to suit.
Given that it has been fifty years since I enrolled here, and the fact that I hadn’t seen any of the buildings in over 45 years as the school is hidden behind houses and accessed by a secured driveway I decided to phone to see if I could enter the grounds to take a photo of the buildings. Here is the result.
Nothing accept the location and long access drive remain of the school I remember, but being there brought back memories of many of the names and faces of the teachers and boys I was schooled by and with.
Mr Lock, Lake, Rolinson, Howes, Duval, Mann, Davies….
The changes at the school should not surprise me – 50 years is a long time – but it I do regret the repeated changes of school name as it does break with the past. Indeed that is probably why the powers that be do it.
One day, one photo 