'Orsham

A town in the County of Sussex as found in the United Kingdom.

Your Definition May Vary

2022/06/30

‘Most expensive, busiest and trendiest parts of Horsham to buy a house revealed’ is the headline.

In this instance ‘trendy’ appears to mean ‘where old people go to die’.

‘Horsham Named As A UK Hotspot For House Extensions’

2022/05/17

Apparently coming 38th, outside London, justified the headline.

Fame still eludes us.

For Locals Of A Certain Age

2019/09/13

West Brom fan, English teacher, and my form tutor, Richard Loughran has died (Ad infested site).

I’ve no great personal anecdotes but there was good reason why we always got the kids expelled from other schools in our class and it wasn’t just because he was rather a big chap.

I do remember him playing us Monty Python records during lessons with the excuse that it was written to work on many levels. I’m still not sure how that applied to Eric The Half A Bee.

Those of a certain age who grew up in ‘Orsham might want to know that Frank Newby the former Headmaster of Forest School for Boys has died. He was well ahead of his time particularly in being a strong advocate of lifetime education. There’s an obituary on the ad heavy West Sussex County Times
website.

In keeping with my policy of minimal engagement with education I didn’t have much to do with him; though when I was volunteered to write for the school paper he did ban one of my articles questioning the Head Boy system and related expenditure.

That’s reminded me I attempted to be a conscientious objector to being made a Prefect – but that didn’t get very far.

Despite these oldfangled terms it was actually a progressive Comprehensive school.