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NAME: Tim Newton

26 October 2010

CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1968-72

VARIOUS MEMORIES 1968-1972:  The Lecture Theatre, summer 1971, physics.  I sat high up at the back.  The top windows were all tilted, open.  Through one of these I could see a cricket match in progress, just a years' sports period.  But blow me, as I watched I witnessed a demon bowler take about 6 wickets in 3 overs.  It was the same demon who opposed my house (Stapylton) in an inter-house cricket match.  Luckily for me I was batting at 10 or 11th man - this guy (short and tubby, but a demon none the less) had skittled us out for a win early, so I didn't have to face him - not to mention the fact that I had no 'protection'. Chemistry lab, circa 1971.  Mr Gibbons would inspect the closed up sinks set into the benches at the end of each lesson.  One day we decided to show him what we could cook up and towards the end of the period discreetly pass by a particular sink and pour in any chemical with thought would do well.  On opening this sink at close of lesson, a thick oily brown cloud blossomed forth ..

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