Site Owner details
History of Site
Site opened 8th July 1998 as a couple of pages.
Lineone Site temporary/permanent closure 2300 on 14th June 1999 ,re-opened a few days later. No more agro please!
with gasmask retirement time
I am David Dell and was at Binefield House,Oxted in 1942,then Teignmouth to after V.E. day (see party picture) ,and after a spell in Derby,at Bemrose, waiting to return to London,I finished at Hatcham in 1948.
At that time there had been a decision that National Service would be served before going to University,consequently "Ned" advised parents that the boys should start work before call-up and forget University ,unless they were confident of high class degrees!
"Percy" recommended Unilever so I went,having visited Shell
and Customs
and found them wanting.
For my sins I was placed in a new young company called
Birds Eye Foods and it took me 40 years to escape!
Having read the earlier edition of the Old Askean,page 11,I seem to remember the
Police coming to the School to collect the Cordite we had in matchboxes.Dropping
grenades off Shaldon Ness also seems to come to mind.
As does guddling for trout, snares for rabbits and eating raw carrots as a supplement
to the food rations.Or at Teignmouth finding a Salmon in a pool,hitting it on the head
with a stone and taking it home for tea! Mrs Northcott was delighted.
The only warning we had was to avoid 303's with red tips since they were
Tracer,but the rest we put between two rocks and twisted the bullet off,to get to the
Cordite.It was sweet tasting but one of members went "green"!
Sweet Cider at the "bottle and jug" and sleep it
off in the park---I seem to remember that we had a" firework" accident which
cost someone part of their finger.Which shows that fireworks were more dangerous than live
ammunition!
If we could survive the V.1 that bounced off the Tree at the bottom off the Binefield House garden,while we were all in the Top room doing our Homework,we could survive most things.That was presumably after we had practised descending from the top window on the webbing safety harness!
Len Blanche(1943 to 1947),now of Smarden,remembers the slivers of glass
sticking in the wall over the table-tennis table
Incidentally I am reminded that we had collected just about all parts of
the V.1.(apart from the warhead) and they were at the bottom of the Binefield garden,
before we were despatched to Teignmouth.---where we were stood in the schoolyard and
selected by the local ladies!
Last time I looked at the Millpond I couldn't believe we had swum in it!
Another odd one,starving schoolboys ate most things including raw carrots and crab-apples,but I met a Director of Unilever who lived in Icehouse Wood and he asked how we enjoyed his "quinces",which we had mistakenly thought were pears!
Our main sites are:
http://www.dragonflies.supanet.com
for full list of our sites!
http://www.btinternet.com/~picturegallery
for Actresses
For those who are into Traction Engines and the Red Arrows, try :
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/david.dell/index.html
For those interested in Wild Flowers we have a new site:Entitled Wild Orchids and Wild Flowers.at,
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jean.dell/index.html
We hope you enjoy them!
still run sites for my long term hobby:
http://uk.geocities.com/daveg3pqf
http://uk.geocities.com/international_short_wave_league
re-open with ISWL info dropped off 11th March 2004
http://uk.geocities.com/certificate_hunters_club
rebuilt 15th October 2005
saved from previous pages! Not ours but like the pix!
History of Site
Site opened 8th July 1998 as a couple of pages.
Lineone Site temporary/permanent closure 2300 on 14th June 1999 ,re-opened a few days later. No more agro please!
Been running for more than 6 years and it seems to have
gone very quiet
in terms of information provided! But we have Readers!
Fresh information from Janet Gearing entered into the
two Hatcham
Association pages and the Lineone Site
re-opened 1900 on 16th June 1999.
September 2001,revamp original site to "frames".
October 2004 more alterations and an outboard counter added!
February 2005 correct items
Count end 2003 now in excess of 10,000 visits since we started!
18.02.2004
Clara Count at
2635
to
check number reading after loading speech day! 3116 now!
19.05.04 on loading New
Programs 3254 visits
14.06.04
now 3669 visits
People checking Founders Day?
03.10.04
now 4879 visits
16.02.05
now 6158 visits
The new counter racked up 2175 visits to the site since September 2004
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(One of our other sites clocked up 47,000 in 2002,which
shows what can be achieved!)
Askes girls was on
182 visits!
03.09.03
237 visits
08.10.03
253 visits
15.01.04
now 308 visits
24.04.04
375 visits
19.05.04
397 visits
13.08.04
432 visits still slow offtake
18.01.05
492 visits
16.02.05
497 visits
the previous address was closed after averaging 400 spam per day!
New counter installed 25.9 by 31.10 had notched up 194 visits