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Passing the reigns of the Chilton Cantelo Oldies website to Edward Lutley
It is with much regret that I have to announce that, due to ill health, I will shortly no longer be running the Chilton Cantelo Oldies site. It maybe a good time to drop the reigns as the site is going through a quiet time while building up to the 2019 Final Chilton Cantelo Oldies…
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A Final 2019 Reunion and a Lasting Tribute to the Founders
Memorial to Assassinated Pupil Nigeria’s Abu Bakr Mahe Balewa Considered An interview with convenor of the Chilton Cantelo School Oldies Clive Lewis-Hopkins Your plan is to have a terminating Cotes-James Years reunion in 2019. Intriguingly you also intend to put in place an enduring memorial to the founding duo? C.L-H: Nothing lasts for ever, not…
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Peter V. Hall – My Life After Chilton!
I heard through the grapevine that Chilton Cantelo’s Marketing Manager Anne Brayley showed old boy Peter V. Hall, and his new wife from Victoria down under, around the old school last August. Peter was at Chilton circa 1966-67. Anne mentioned in an email that it was a delight to show them around. I have just…
Time Travel At The Rose & Crown Re-Union 2013
Itinerant Oldie Peter Isaac and his wife Gail, both fresh from New Zealand, via France, found that the past half century or so melted away when they encountered a posse of contemporary Oldies at the Rose & Crown near Chilton Cantelo. They had anticipated a “quiet” lunch with familiar old lags Peter Liesching, Edward Lutley,…
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50 Years Between Sips
Fifty years ago three Chilton Cantelo House School pupils gate-crashed a cider tasting at the 400 year old cider press at Higher Farm, adjacent to the school and which from the inception of the school has seemed to be almost part of it. Then as now the farmer and the proprietor of the cider press…
The 2012 Oldies Reunion
It was so good to see so many Chiltonians turn out for this our second reunion at Chilton on 18th August, 2012. Numbers were up to 64 spread evenly over 30 years. It was a super effort by everyone who came and especially those travelling from abroad. We were blessed by fine weather which always…
Email from John Hobbins
Dear Clive:I came across your oldies site and realized that I was an oldie. I was a Millfield boarder at Chilton Cantelo for four terms – Summer ’62 to Summer ’63. I transferred there, despite the long bus rides, because Capt. James allowed pipe smoking a couple of years younger than Boss. Discipline was also…
Email from Nigel Holmes
July, 2012.Hi I have looked at the reunion sites for a few years now and tried to contact various people without much success, I did get a phone call from Peter Panayotou but I must say it all seemed very vague and an awfully long time ago.I was at CC for a couple of years 1964–65 I…