[Tech1] Missing Evesham Information

[Barry Bonner]

Hi Ted,
	Here’s the Evesham archery group in 1965 looking for a balloon to burst no doubt! I think it’s you behind the foreground archer wearing a diamond patterned cardigan. (Gerry Tivers on the left)
Barry.




On 16 Mar 2024, at 15:00, Edward Kent via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all
> Living in Warwickshire for many years I often passed the entrance  to WN.  Occasionally  shopping in Evesham, I remembered the fried egg sandwiches they did in the BBC  Club. I couldn't  remember  exactly where it was. 
> It was  a retirement  present  of a Balloon  Flight that brought another memory. After several failed attempts at different locations,  it was always too windy, the newcsite was given, the field opposite WN where we had much fun including an almost disastrous moment when Ian Tomlin or Geoff Tivers shot an arrow directly upwards. We soon scattered when we realised it was going to land right where were standing!.
> Ted Kent
> 
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, 14:44 David Newbitt via Tech1, <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
> On the topic of upsetting lecturers at Evesham. Hope to goodness I’m not repeating a previously told anecdote!
>  
> On TO15 during an Alan Woolford lecture I had a bad nose-bleed and had to absent myself for a spell. A day or two later during another of his lectures I blew my nose rather vigorously, prompting the worthy gentleman to council caution lest I induced another nose-bleed.
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> “Don’t worry” I said “I’m not that bored yet”. He advanced upon me and as menacingly as he was able (he was actually a thoroughly nice chap) said “I have more opportunities than you!”
>  
> I think I toned down the repartee after that, but others took up the cause. I remember Sam Wilson on our course (who was possessed of a splendid Irish accent) responding to Woolford’s enquiry as to what part of Ireland he hailed from with “Liverpool”.
>  
> Dave Newbitt.
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> From: Mike Giles via Tech1
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2024 1:25 PM
> To: Tech Ops
> Subject: Re: [Tech1] Missing Evesham Information
>  
> I recall being criticised by John (?) Symons for getting full marks in an exam, because he didn’t like people suggesting that his questions weren’t hard enough - and I feel sure that they were much less demanding than these! That was on TO 21 - I must have a course photo somewhere and will post it when I stumble across it.
>  
> Mike G
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