The Bible
I also remember that when you went up to Kenton Comprehensive you were given a bible on the first day...it was red, hardback and written in yellow on the front were the words'The bible'...but why?...why did they give you this gift...WHY I ask you?...Kenton Comprehensive was no catholic school, so why give you a bible, eh?
anyone else remember the red godman book with yellow writing?....
anyone still got it and can up a photo to the blog?
anyone else remember the red godman book with yellow writing?....
anyone still got it and can up a photo to the blog?
I'll check with my Mum to see if she has it.
ReplyDeleteI think ours were brown (or maybe dark blue) with "Holy Bible" embossed on the cover. We were told this was the only book we would get to keep by our RE teacher, a doddery old lady who wore really drab clothes (unlike Miss Mackie who was much more switched on). We didn't get it on the first day, it was the first RE lesson in the upstairs classroom where the West Hall stage should have been (which became the Lower VI Common Room in the early Seventies).
I think it was funded by the City Education Department, there was a gummed label to that effect we stuck on the inside cover and wrote our names on the dotted line under "Presented to".
Shades, that RE teacher: was she called Mrs Stewart, or 'Granny Stewart' as we used to call her?....must have been about 99 when I went to kenton aged 11!
ReplyDeleteps: great if you can sort the bible photo, but the tie...dont forget the tie!
I seem to remember that bibles are not exclusive to those who follow the Catholic faith, tho perhaps they were given to you for a reason...
ReplyDeleteI haven't forgotten the tie, Son & Heir is being a bit precious though. (It would look stupid on me these days, although I got away with it aged eleven next to the fish tanks outside the lower school hall).
ReplyDeleteThe shadelet aged 11
(when you see a middle aged man then click one of the side arrows to see the Shadelet in school uniform).
Some ruffians used to use the particularly thin paper to roll smokies with..........probably that lot from Eland Close..........
ReplyDeleteI have the bible (1975) and the tie and the scarf and the prizegiving book (from 1981)... and the sixthform tie... (yes i never throw anything away). How do I post it on here please? x
ReplyDeletescan them or photograph them and send them to submit@thunderbirdink.com
ReplyDeleteanonymous, please listen to the master and share these wonderful artifacts post haste... I beg of you!
ReplyDeleteI've checked with my ageing mother- the Kenton School Bible was thrown out in the late 80s, after I had converted to Satanism.
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Alas, that is a pity.I would have liked to have seen this brown/blue one...incidently talking of conversion I knew a kid who converted to anarchism/punk in 77...he wrote'A'(for anarchy) in a circle on the leaf side opposite the spine side and other stuff like that on his red/yellow kenton school bible...he will suffer damnation in the fires of hell I am sure...(mutley dog laugh...)
ReplyDeleteYES!I've managed to get hold of a copy of the red & yellow one!I will up an image of it soon!
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