David, Richard, Chris and I met in 1964 when we started at Addey and Stanhope School in New Cross, London. It was a Grammar School (ie. selective, you had to pass your 11+ exam to get in), and the only mixed secondary school (11-18) in south London. It was supposed to have been founded in 1715, but since then they have pushed the date further back. Every year the first Thursday in March is celebrated as Founders' Day, and there is a reunion in the school. This year the first Thursday was also the first DAY in March, and seems to have taken people by surprise, so attendance was poor.All three of these guys have computer expertise, but none of them could help me with my Windows Vista problem!
The school started life as two charity schools which later amalgamated. One founder was George Stanhope, a Dean in the Church of England. The other brought Peter The Great from Russia to learn the art of shipbuilding Below is his entry in Wikipedia.
**John Addey (1550-16 April 1606) was master shipwright at HM Dockyard Deptford in south-east London.
Addey was buried in St Nicholas Church in Deptford and there are plaques to him on the exterior north wall.
He left £200 to the poor of Deptford which was invested in land on Church Street and provided an income to maintain schools (his will also mentioned Londons' Shipwrights Hall). The Addey School was built here in 1821 and enlarged in 1862. It amalgamated with Dean Stanhope's School to form Addey and Stanhope School, and moved to New Cross Road in 1899.**
You are lucky to live in a country so steeped in history that goes back many centuries. The USA is a baby compared to England!!
ReplyDeleteI could have sworn I left a comment; much good my grammar school education did for me... doh!!!!
ReplyDeletemy school was a baby in comparison; opened by Princess Alexandra on 11.11.11