Old West Downs Society
Newsletter & Information
West Downs School, Winchester — 1897–1988
If you wish to use the West Downs site of Winchester University for a personal event of your own, such as a wedding reception, contact the University of Winchester Conferences Manager at conferences@winchester.ac.uk
We hope to have the next OWD Society Dinner at Brooks’s Club in St. James’s, London SW1, on Monday 25th October 2010. Cost £tba (we have not yet chosen the menu). Seven for seven-thirty. Dinner Jackets preferred (or Lounge suits if you have to). Email notices will be sent out well beforehand, but people who have attended recent dinners will receive a letter in the springtime. Please make cheques (British bank only) payable to Old West Downs Society, and send to the Hon. Secretary at the address given below.
There will be a lunchtime meeting in a pub in Fleet Street on Wednesday 10th March 2010. The purpose of this will be to discuss future policy. If you have something to say, such as a suggestion for a speaker for the October Dinner, do please write in to the Secretary, or turn up in person.
Some pictures of walks, etc, by Lionel Kay - slideshow
West Downs in about 1912 - slideshow
Interesting collection of West Downs items supplied by Nick Bloxam (1948-54)
News bulletin handed to those attending the 2006 dinner
Andrew Selous, MP, speaking at the 2006 dinner
Corbett Macadam, Daniel Hodson and John Cornes listen to Andrew Selous, 2006
Please send in any material to the Hon. Secretary
39 Athelstane Grove, Bow, London E3 5JG, UK
Tel: ++44(0)20 8983 0960, mobile: 07904 667 731
Send e-mail to Hon. Secretary Nick Hodson
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Old West Downs Society Bulletin Board suspended due to criminal spamming
Links to members’ websites
Has anyone done a MacNab?
Harry Risbridger – Instructor – came to the School after the War, when we returned from Scotland to Winchester, and took charge of PE and swimming. He also took charge of shooting, and here he is during a Founder’s Day shooting match between Old Boys and the School.
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- Some pictures sent in by Matthew Bates (1980-83) — Views of the school, the 1980 and 1981 school pictures, and leavers 1983
- Some pictures taken by Nick Hodson (1943-47) — The Grand Opening of the new West Downs Conference and Performing Arts Centre, 2nd May 2001
- Some pictures taken by Anthony Hawks (1947-53) — Griffith, Jacques, Severn, Kitchen, etc.
- Some pictures taken at the Dinner at Brooks’s, March 2003.
- A short history of the OWD Society
- A brief history of West Downs School
- The West Downs Roll of Honour
- Books about the School
- Memorials to Lionel Helbert (11.4 Mb, so broadband users only)
- Publications available from the Society
- Letters from Old Boys and Girls about the School (The Source Material for the book by Mark Hichens}
- The Masters’ Plays — by Kenneth Tindall
- The Life of Jesus — by Kenneth Tindall
- The West Downs School Prayers
- OWD Society Membership
- The OWD Society’s Greetings to the King Alfred College
- More pictures of the School
OWD Society Members’ business and personal sites
- Nick FitzHerbert; The Rules of Magic applied to Business Presentations
- David Lewis, Spain, Promotion of artists
- Pierre Stapley, Argentina, Stapley Business Services
- Simon Collings, Reading, designer
- Alan Petrides, Audiobook Publisher
- Andrea Moretti-Adimari, on-line team coaching
Anyone done a MacNab? Richard Paget writes: I have just started a company producing audio books on different country sports and pastimes. The first ones are Fly Fishing Tales 1 and 2 — in each tape 6 top fishermen recall their most memorable catch and we include the actual flies they used ... We are exploring other topics and are currently looking for people who have achieved a MacNab to interview. I am sure there must be some among OWDs who either have achieved, or aspire to achieve, the ‘Grand Slam’ of the Highlands. Richard Paget