Happy Christmas 2013.
I wanted to refresh the website, and pick up a better template.  So I added a festive sprig of holly and so on.  Moving the site meant I lost the previous Blog, however.  So I will move that over manually - lesson learned.

Navigation is the same - already a little deep in some places and will revamp that in the New Year.

Comments welcome.  Material welcome.  Or just sign up or update your details.

Have a good one.
John Dring

Frank Horner said:
... Deryck Reginald Aldridge DFC

Sadly died on Sept 4th 2013 aged 91. I attended his funeral at Cromer Church on 18th September. I worked on brief occasions with Deryck at BT (then PO Telephones) between 1963 and 1966. However I remember well seeing his name as Plt Off D R Aldridge DFC on the WW2 honours board which hung in the old assembley hall at PGS when I was at the school between 1955 - 1960,(it is still there). Deryck took part in the Peenemunde bombing raids attacking the V2 missile production facility and there is a paragraph recalling this in Martin Middlebrook's book The Peenemunde Raids. Deryck is survived by his wife Audrey and 2 daughters and their families. 
- Frank Horner

Mike Hardy said:
(posted from Mike Hardy email)

Rather appropriately, Trafalgar Day 2013, saw the funeral of Old Pastonian Harry Pascoe. Recorded on the honours board in the Old Hall at the Grammar School for his Croix de Guerre award during WWII and instrumental in the success of the Caister Lifeboat, Harry will be greatly missed.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/obituaries/caister_lifeboatman_great_yarmouth_headteacher_and_croix_de_guerre_war_hero_was_a_true_gentleman_1_2842159

Ported from version1 website blog to here.

Stephen Rogers said:
Just heard about the new website from the SOP newsletter. Great idea and thanks. Let's hope you get lots of visitors and feedback.

Alan Thomas said:
Hi to all my former class/year mates at the Paston Grammar School 1975 - 82.

Jeremy Norman said:
Just a 'hail' to any class and tear mates. 1962 to 1967

Robin Maclean said:
Greetings to all my friends. (1947-1953).

Iain Maxted said:
Hello to all OP's who were at the school 1975-1982! Won't make it to the SOP dinner this year but hope to see a few of you next year.

Alan Thomas said:
Hi Iain - at last, someone from my year has posted a comment! Although I've been an old Pastonian for years, I didn't think anyone else joined the 'Old Boys Society'! I met a few of our classmates nearly 20 years ago at the Paston School, which was a seperately arranged event by Ian Futter, who couldn't make it himself in the end! I've had an e-mail discussion with John Dring recently, have been in constant contact with Perry Dyball since we left school, briefly had e-mail contact with (Ian?) Fellowes about 10 years ago when he was in London, and am still just about in contact (Xmas card level) with Tim Brookes who was in the RAF for many years. I worked as a Barman, and had 3 brief jobs with East Sussex County Council, before I was in the RAF for 6 years, and I've been in the Ministry of Defence since 1989...which reminds me, I'm at work (no e-mail at home at the moment) so I'd better sign off. All the best, Alan.

Geoff Thrower said:
You might get the motto right for a start.
De mieux en mieux par tout
"Better to better everywhere", not "................for all"

And that's from 50 years ago (1958-1963)

John said:
Thanks Geoff.
You know, I think you are right, but all the shields, logos, Pastonians etc I saw said 'pour tout' and only the School song said partout. So I changed it, changed it back, and in the end went for what was visible today (pour tout). But its definitely 'everywhere'.
So where/when did the bastardisation occur?

Geoff Thrower said:
When indeed sir, not on my watch :)
IIRC the motto was in old French, heraldic or Norman, so not exactly as per modern French. I suspect a certain M. Shuffrey explained it once.
I don't think I have any written momentos of that time to look it up

Geoff Thrower said:
Blowing up the badge on the header shows "pour" so perhaps I'd better pay me tenner and shut up about it :)

Peter Stibbons said:
Geoff,

Nice to hear from you. My recollection - and we will have been in the same lesson - is that GOS said that the motto didn't actually make sense in French. Maybe that wasa specific reference to the partout. The school song was written about 1907 - the full version (seven verses, I think) is in the 'Old Boys' documents trunk at the College. The irony is that the middle name of the man who worte it was 'Napoloen'.

Richard Denniso said:
The following is a copy of an entry in the Eastern Daily Press giving details of Dick's death and arrangements for a Service of Thanksgiving: -


STANNARD DICK Passed away on March 4th at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, aged 81 years. Devoted husband of Eileen and a much-loved father and grandfather. Private cremation, followed by a Service of Thanksgiving for his life, will be held at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Knapton on Monday, March 25th at 12 noon. Family flowers only please, but donations, if desired, for Knapton Church may be given at the service or sent to Murrell Cork Funerals, 57a, Mundesley Road, North Walsham, NR28 0DB.