Soham Grammarians - The Radio Club

Keith Essex '64' writes 25 Feb 08: Although I only attended the school for a couple of years [69-71] I have many fond memories of those times, especially the Radio Club. There was an old building in the back garden where we used to hang out, I remember watching the first moon landings on an old TV we had there, John and David Fellows, Philip Jefferson, Mick Brogan and I think Jonny Carter were all members and we had a great time there.

I also remember the driving lessons, run by the British School of Motoring, they were fun and I passed my test first time after that!

I remember the time that the buses were on strike and we were expected to hitch a ride to school from Sutton, one particular day Jonny Carter and I couldn't quite seem to get a lift at all, so we took the day off. Unfortunately, later in the day we got into an accident on my AJS 350 motor cycle and Jonny was hurt, of course, this all got back to Mr Tabraham who wanted to know why we couldn't have used the bike to get to school, he was not impressed at all! Jonny meanwhile was in hospital and didn't have to take the heat.

I used to belong to the school scout troop and one time we went on a camping trip to Aviemore in Scotland with Tony Cornell the physics teacher. It rained contiuously and we all got really wet, but luckily we were able to move into the chalet that was there and it was ok after that.

The radio club came along as well of course and we were able to make lots of contacts on 'Top Band' from there.

last updated 14 Mar 2008