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| A Memory of
Fred Peake - from Nick Clarke August, 2005 |
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I well remember the day that Fred Peake left HCS in about 1972 - I think he moved to either Southgate at Alvaston or Allestree Woodlands for a few years before retiring. It must have been an emotional day for him after so long at the same place and he wouldn't come out of the staff office for the end of term (afternoon) assembly that day. Frank Bridges, who took over as Headmaster from Mr Swaine in the summer of 1968 was a dry old stick, not known for anything other than his strict discipline and "British reserve", but that day he made the whole school raise the rafters to the degree that people must have heard us in the streets outside cheering Fred on his way. Perhaps we should have been worried about that roof....
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