Memory Lane When our ship shall leave the river bank

[chadded]

Its timbers brave the main,
Our port shall gleam through mists of time,
And beckon back again,
Then each adventurer shall feel,
As onward strains the eager keel,
From the School beside the church and sea
The speeding wind of memory.

And some shall picture pounding ball
On turf of sodden field,
And some the fight on fiery pitch
When grit refused to yield;
And some shall think of desk and pen,
And organ-voices heard again,
And laughter ringing merrily
Adown the aisles of memory.

Here make we then, as old time men,
The pledge our souls demands:
To build as they, the best we may
The house not built with hands.
So, one with Future and with Past,
Our work in School shall live and last,
And through the centuries to be
Our School shall grow in memory.


That is all.

 

[MK Shrimper]

All the nice girls love a sailor.

 

[Firestorm]

We shall have a little fishy

 

[chadded]

Nothing to do with Sailing. Only the elite will have had the honour of singing this....

 

[MrB]

our work in school shall live and last,

tuscany!!!

 

[Cricko]

Nothing to do with Sailing. Only the elite will have had the honour of singing this....

Is this something to do with SHSB?

 

[chadded]

Is this something to do with SHSB?

Indeed. Glad you realise the Alumni of SHSB are elite....

 

[South Bucks Shrimper]

Random!

Sparta.

 

[Napster]

Random!

Sparta.

is the right answer.

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

Troy troy troy troy

 

[chadded]

is the right answer.

No. If you weren't a Tuscan, you might as well have gone to Westcliff........

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

both son and daughter were spartens,alas i was a failure.

 

[South Bucks Shrimper]

No. If you weren't a Tuscan, you might as well have gone to Westcliff........

Egg chasers.

 

[MrB]

Forti nihil difficile

 

[chadded]

If you go on the SHSB Wikipedia page, you will see that Gerry Harnden is under the noted alumni. Genius.

 

[OldBlueLady]

No. If you weren't a Tuscan, you might as well have gone to Westcliff........

As a Westcliffian of the female variety I can assure you there is nothing wrong with being a Westcliff Old Boy or Girl! Shouldn't think there's any others on here, but Devereux as it goes!

 

[chadded]

As a Westcliffian of the female variety I can assure you there is nothing wrong with being a Westcliff Old Boy or Girl! Shouldn't think there's any others on here, but Devereux as it goes!

Going to Southend High, is like being at Top Gun. The elite. Best of the best. Where they make you better.

Going to Westcliff is like flying a cargo plane full of rubber dogsh!t out of Hong Kong.

 

[Hotman]

Troy troy troy troy

the man talks sense

 

[Hotman]

Mr wade was a nutcase

 

[chadded]

Mr wade was a nutcase

AS was/is Mr Rocks, Mr Dr Short, Gerry Harnden....