The Bible

By ghost of mensforth -
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?

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  1. ShadesSaturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:43:00 PM GMT

    I'll check with my Mum to see if she has it.

    I 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".

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  2. ghost of mensforthSunday, November 8, 2009 at 5:09:00 PM GMT

    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!
    ps: great if you can sort the bible photo, but the tie...dont forget the tie!

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  3. Butcher's HookMonday, November 9, 2009 at 3:20:00 AM GMT

    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...

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  4. ShadesSaturday, November 14, 2009 at 11:38:00 PM GMT

    I 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).

    The shadelet aged 11

    (when you see a middle aged man then click one of the side arrows to see the Shadelet in school uniform).

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  5. The BosnianThursday, November 19, 2009 at 3:11:00 PM GMT

    Some ruffians used to use the particularly thin paper to roll smokies with..........probably that lot from Eland Close..........

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  6. AnonymousWednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:04:00 PM GMT

    I 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

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  7. El PatronWednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:07:00 PM GMT

    scan them or photograph them and send them to submit@thunderbirdink.com

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  8. ghost of mensforthThursday, January 28, 2010 at 7:41:00 PM GMT

    anonymous, please listen to the master and share these wonderful artifacts post haste... I beg of you!

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  9. ShadesSunday, January 31, 2010 at 8:08:00 PM GMT

    I'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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  10. ghost of mensforthMonday, February 1, 2010 at 5:35:00 AM GMT

    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...)

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  11. ghost of mensforthMonday, March 21, 2011 at 6:17:00 PM GMT

    YES!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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