The date for this year's annual reunion at Rose Cottage has now been fixed as

Friday, 6 September, from mid-day till late afternoon

There will be further postings when I have details of price and any other arrangements. Please note that my e-mail contact address has changed and details can be found on my website (See my recent update on the Visitors/Signing-in page).

Please make a note in your diaries
Best wishes,

Doug

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1951-58

Current location (optional) mid-Lancashire

The price of this year's Reunion meal will be £18 per head.

Chris will be posting further details shortly under the 'Topics' heading on the website's Home page.

I shall be writing to individuals with the usual form to fill in, over the next few days.

Should anyone wish to contact me by email, could you please do so using:

agapex0@agapex0.karoo.co.uk and not at my former Hull address which is the one indicated in the forthcoming 'Topics' info.

I hope we shall have a good turn-out again this year.

Best wishes to all,

Doug

I am pleased to say I will be at the Reunion this year (2013).Would it be a good idea for people to tell others on this site if they intend to be present. We can then perhaps make sure we see any of our contemporaries (or near contemporaries). This year, sadly, we shall be without Paul Greenwood who was about the only one of my year with whom I kept in touch regularly. But I look forward to seeing you all, including my old mentor George "Spike" Rannard.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1940-48

Current location (optional) Epsom

Members of the Keighley and District Historical Society are intending to be with us again this year and will be bringing a selection of KBGS School photographs from their large archive. Should anyone have any such photos, or indeed any photos showing any aspect of Keighley life from past decades, Jan and David would be pleased to see them and could take copies of them on the day.

Additionally, we are again intending to put on a small exhibition of members' art work - 'art' covering any creative activity such as drawing, painting, photography, wood-turning, sculpture etc. Anyone who would like to display something of this sort, please contact me beforehand for there is not a lot of space, so if the contributions proved to be greater in number than was the case two years ago we should need to limit the number for each individual.

The reservation forms are coming in now and numbers are bearing up well.

Doug

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1951-58

Current location (optional) Cottingham, East Yorkshire

Jan and myself are actually members of the Keighley Schools Heritage Group and not connected to Keighley & District Local History. We would love to add any photographs and documents of life at Keighley Grammar to our collection for future displays. We can copy on the day if you wish. Looking forward to seeing you all.

Current location (optional) Keighley

To date the number coming to the Reunion next Friday stands at 43, which is six more than came last year. The number could still rise further although I shall have to let the caterers know the final total by Friday of this week. So, any last-minute takers please email me and pay on the day.

Doug

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1951-58

Current location (optional) Cottingham, East Yorkshire

Thought I might be able to manage to come, but sadly not so, we will be in Dorset now.
Hope you all have a good time.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 58-64

Current location (optional) Wirral

For reasons I am sure you fully understand I will be unable to join you. I do send my very best felicitations to each and everyone of you. Long may the reunions continue. I have always felt a special respect and brotherly affection for all old Keighlians. Arthur Seeley( sweating mightily in the tropics).

Thanks Arthur - you will be mentioned among the absent friends. The number stands now at 46, so not bad for a school that closed its doors 50 years ago.
Gill and I shall be leaving for Melbourne a couple of days after - not quite the sweaty tropics, but we have high hopes of an early Aussie spring.

Doug

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1951-58

Current location (optional) Cottingham, East Yorkshire

I hope the reunion is a great success and well done Doug for the organisation.
I can not be there either but I wish all well, what a great turn out!

Doug, Spring has delivered its sunny face already here in Torquay (Oz)- we look forward to catching up with you soon.

Would be interesting to see a list of the 46 including the yrs at the school.May even be someone from my time .Hope the day is a huge success and my best wishes to you all

Current location (optional) Tasmania.

Now that's enough excuses from you Wild Colonial Boys...........

Get your diaries sorted for 20-14 - (usually the score when we played Bfd GS)

See you next year?

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1952-60

Current location (optional) Nirvana

Well, I guess that's my cue, Terry! Provided KRUFC have no objections the date for next year's reunion will be Friday, 26 September, so if you would like to pencil that in to your wild colonial diaries I'll hope to confirm in a couple of days' time.

Every year, I receive apologetic notes from OBs who have booked holidays which clash with the Reunion, so I decided to try and get in first with a pre-emptive strike! There are, of course, many other reasons for not coming... distance, cost and age being among them, but it's good to know you are with us in spirit!

Doug

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1951-58

Current location (optional) Cottingham, East Yorkshire

Best wishes for the reunion, I will be there in spirit if not the flesh.
Chris

Even more incentive to attend next year:

Yorkshire - God's own country is the best place in Europe
Yorkshire beats off competition from popular cities, among them Paris, Rome, Barcelona and Florence, to be named Europe's leading destination 2013

Good wishes from Auckland too guys. I had my unexpected visit to Keighley in April so twice in one year isn't on for me. Fortunately I did catch up with David Seeley again and my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed his company. I will raise a glass or two to you all this weekend. Best wishes to all. ps I have now located a store in Auckland, well, the North Shore of Auckland, which sells Landlord beer. Cheers.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1947-51

Current location (optional) Auckland,NZ

It was a really good do. Thanks Doug (and Gill). Enjoy Oz.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1958-65

Current location (optional) Leeds

Another KBGS reunion success , Thanks to all.
It was another good opportunity to meet new, old faces .
I got into conversation with a new reunion attender whose label revealed he was at KBGS a year or so before me.
In conversation we discovered that we were from contiguous districts of Keighley; knew the same group of contemporaries from that district; supported the same out-of-school organisations. I knew I must know him. But still I couldn’t put a fix on him.
We sat together at lunch. But still I didn’t know who he was beyond his teasing name tag which didn’t mean a lot to me.
Then, whilst enjoying the sumptuous buffet lunch, I had an Old Boy’s Moment . I realised who he was – in the context of all the other Old Boys we both knew.
He can be seen second from the left , at the rear of the rugby photo for the Colts 1953-4.
That’s how I remember him. He didn’t look a bit like that last Friday – well: just a little bit.
But then neither do I (or most of the rest of us) look like we did in those days gone by,
And if you met us, would you want to talk to us anyrooad?

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1952-60

Current location (optional) Nirvana

I have just uploaded the full attendance List for September's Reunion. Sorry it is so late but we are just back from Australia, for which we departed immediately after the event. Photos will follow over the next few days.

The newly posted list is situated in the Web's 'Reunion' Folder (p 15)

Doug

Current location (optional) East Yorkshire

I have just uploaded several photographs from the Reunion. Apologies that they are so late but Australia intervened. I find there are several I am not able to upload, including four big group photos, because, apparently, they are too big - my new camera being awash with pixels. Anyone have any suggestions - in language a camera dummy can understand?

Doug

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1951-58

Current location (optional) Mid-Lancashire/ East Yorkshire

Doug, display picture on computer screen and right click. Then 'Open with' then 'Paint' then 'Resize' Change figs of 100% to say 50%. Close and it will ask you if you want to save. Save it and the pic will now be about a quarter of original pixels. Obviously you can use lower figs or higher figs to adjust pixel count.

Well thats the way I do it. There may be other ways.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 58-64

Current location (optional) Wirral

Many thanks, Brian, that worked a treat!

Doug

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) 1951-58

Current location (optional) Mid-Lancashire/ East Yorkshire