The Visitors' Book for St Augustine's Grammar School Old Boys

John Taylor

Started St Augustine's in 1966

O Yeah?

Up to now you mean. Well you never know do you? Still, keep smiling eh?

Spikes bogey

Memories....everyone of them bad. The worst 5 years of my life

L.O. Sailor

More of an autobiography than an entry.
So 18th century mariners termed it the cat eh? Well I never. Nice to know you made the effort to pick up a bit of history on your road to enlightenment. Mr McCabe will be thrilled to bits. Incidentally I suspect that you were actually a subject of Pierre Derision, another exchange student but that's another story.

Nick Casey

@ The Webmaster
Can I - at the risk of appearing to fawn - congratulate you for having created a most inspiring website ? The various subsites are carefully worked out and in terms of style , the background of the home page depicting the pattern of perhaps the most embarrassing school blazer in the world is a masterstroke .Didn't we all at one time or another beg our parents to buy us a plain blue blazer as soon as they could ? That way the Sharston lot stopped calling us 'pyjama boys'.
I vaguely recall you , sir , three years my senior , but we didn't know one another . I did know a few of your peers , including Tav , John Gill and Simon Bailey , aka 'Baz' .
I didn't have any acquaintance with your brother born 62/3 , but when I moved to Xaverian VI Form College , I met your sibling born 59/60, on a biology field trip in Easter 78 and thought he was a very affable person .But I did associate alot with Paul , whom I invited to my eighteenth birthday party and I found him to be kind , cultured and witty .My parents thought he was a regular guy , as they did with several of my other pals. Please send him my warmest regards .
As to the school itself , I found my final three years to be most enjoyable with Messrs Scrowston , Moore ,Addis ,Kearney and Leonard to be caring form-masters . And Mr Mc Cabe , Mr Brennan and Mr Thorpe were ideal templates for any fledgeling , aspiring teachers , the profession that I chose for 26 years.A couple of masters , who shall remain nameless, were very nice people , but they couldn't control the seething masses and , bless them , their techniques left alot to be desired - the compendium of what not to do, to avoid discord in classroom management .Nevertheless , I have fond memories of them as compassionate , albeit misplaced people .
However , my first two years at St Augs were horrendous , being the subject of peer-derision - and between 72-4 I got into several physical altercations with my classmates and occasionally received what 18th- century mariners termed 'The Cat' , especially from the top . Thank God I grew out of all that.
So , to summarise , it was like a borstal at first - then I began to feel like a human-being.
Webmaster - keep up the excellent work .

Bernie Fitzpatrick

shocked to find this page- attended '77-'83

Tony Kelly (1970 - 1G)

Hi to anyone who remembers me. Mostly unhappy memories from this school, I spent most of my formative years with red lines across my arse from Spike's exuberant strapping, but I'd guess most ex pupils have had successful careers.

John Gee

Stumbled across the site and brought back loads of old memories

Simon Godfrey

Known by my middle name, Pete. Brings back memories seeing all these names, bet I wouldn't recognise the faces now :-)

Dave Mayers

Never thought I would find a St Augustines web site. Hello to anyone who remembers me '74 to '78. Hung with Johhny Marr and Andy Rourke.