Concordia

Concordia Winter 2021

Class Notes

Martin Booth (1995-2000) Martin Booth has been shortlisted in the Local Journalism category in the most prestigious

awards for public interest journalism in the UK, at the British Journalism Awards 2021. “This is not just recognition for me, but recognition for all of my fellow journalists in Bristol this year who have worked tirelessly to tell the truth in the most testing of circumstances,” said Martin.

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Giles Browne (1955-1958) Giles Browne, in writing to the Development Office regarding the Afternoon Tea event in 2021, recalls the League of Six (photographed below).

This group of friends – the League of Six – was formed and had good intentions to meet up once every 40 years! The first reunion took place towards the end of the last century on the same site as the original photo: the Head Master’s Lawn. The original photo was taken just before the school Sixth Form Dance – back then an undoubted highlight of the teenage social year. It was also notable for being the only occasion on which a boy could drive a car to school. Most of us arrived in the family barouche – Austin, Hillman, or Wolseley – and were completely upstaged by someone (Vine?) drifting up in father’s vintage Bentley! The notice in the photo had been ‘liberated’ from the Green Man at Batchworth Heath on a pre-dance visit. After that particular dance, in an access of sophistication, we took our partners for coffee in the departure lounge at Heathrow, which was then one of a number of shacks on the south side left over from WW2.

Back row (left to right): Francis Freeman (1954-1958), Hugh Williams (1953-1958), Giles Browne (1955-1958).

Development

Who knows, one summer evening the remnants of the League of Six may convene once more outside the Examination Hall for a glass of the fizzy stuff as it did so long ago…