Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year
I wish you all a Very Happy Christmas and a Warm and Peaceful New Year. We have advanced further in our collection of names. Particularly I must thank Christopher Smith and Ian Dudley. Ian…
Names and recollections…
You may notice that there is a quantum leap forward in getting names for the ADA panoramas, especially for 1953 and then for 1947 and 1964. We are over the 200 mark for 1953 with valiant help from…
Photos of the School – Now and Then
I had occasion today to try to find a photo that gives an echo of the School to go on the Reunion Menu card. You must judge for yourself if we found a suitable one. But it showed me that we…
Welcome to October
We have arrived in October, time for Autumnal storms, leaves on railway lines and changing clocks…. And also for the Annual Reunion and AGM. I shall not be there myself, but I hope as many of you…
September and we add 1974 to our Panoramas
While we still lack a copy of 1947 Panorama, today I have added 1974 to our collection. Unfortunately it is not of the highest quality but nevertheless we must thank Stephen Wilkinson for generously…
Labelling and naming old school photos
I have introduced a means of labelling and referencing the old school panoramas in what I have called ‘Close Up’ views. If you go to the Panoramic views under the Gallery headline you may get the…
Keeping the website going…
Just occasionally something happens and I become aware of some error in the site; an incorrect name to a photo, an image not appearing because somehow a vital space got deleted or something plainly…
Updating School Photos
I have finally added the School photo for 1947 to the Gallery and to the School Panoramas and would be glad if we could, over the course of the next few years, add names if possible. There are quite…
Comments hard to register
I have just realised that it has been recently impossible to add any comments to these items. I, using the admin option, had been able to, but had not tried to comment as a reader. So my apologies…
Almost June…..
Monitoring this website, I know precisely how many (few) visit here and wonder what can be done. It would be no great thing if it were visited by all and sundry but what of the members of the…
Further on Peter Verral Read
Jonathan Ives is assisting Pont Saint Martin, near Nantes in France, trace living relatives of the 6 aircrew of Wellington R1374, which crashed on the 8th May 1941. He raised the subject of Peter…
Lest We Remember….. Peter Verrall Read 1941
I have been in correspondence with one Jonathan Ives, of Fleet, Hants who was enquiring about a WW2 airman called Peter Verrall Read who was killed in May 1941 and had attended at the Dorking County…
The missing pupil Ruth Wilson of 1995
Sharon Stone of Surrey Police wrote to us: Ruth Wilson was a pupil at Ashcombe School when she went missing in 1995. Surrey Police are making further enquiries to try and locate Ruth. Ruth will be…
The Dorkinian [Ning] website
I have just been made aware of a ‘Dorkinian’ – ie not ‘Ashcombe Dorkinian’ – website; seeemingly various Dorking residents contributing Dorking news and histories. I hope someone will tell us more…
February already
We have all survived the snow and wonder what next is in store for us in 2010. An election for sure and whatever after. One or two members have joined ADA this year already; no avalanches expected.
New Year’s Honour – Erich Reich
We learn that one of our members Erich Reich was awarded a knighthood in the 2010 NewYear’s honours. Congratulations to him. The last mention I can find of Erich in our Newsletters can be found here…