Old Princethorpians

Over the years Princethorpians have had many a choice nickname for their beloved teachers.

A prize goes out to the OP who can correctly identify who all the following nicknames belong to:

1. Killer
2. Skip
3. Sodium Sid
4. Spanner
5. Windy
6. Skids
7. Action Man
8. Ali Baba
9. Stack
10. Trendy
11. The Boss
12. Bonehead
13. Piggy
14. Batman
15. Cornflake

Email your entries to Old Princethorpians by Monday 27 June. Should there be more than one completely correct entry, the winning name will be pulled out of a hat.

Good luck!

Thanks to the eagle-eyed Richard Butler who got in touch after the last issue of the Old Princethorpian to shed some light on one of our archive photos.

Comments Richard, "The event is Prize Giving Day of 1992. I recall that Ann Widdecome was invited to speak because she was a convert to Catholicism."

In the picture, front row, from left to right (apologies if surnames slightly misspelt) Frances Rechton (Deputy Head Girl) David Reti (Head Boy), Spencer McGaw, Ann Widdecombe, Stephen Nosowski, Catherine Silcock (Deputy Head Girl), James Webb and Headmaster, Charles Sweeney.

The decades rolled away and memories were dusted off in late March at an Archives Soiree in the College library.

Past and present staff, Old Princethorpians and local historians gathered to pore over some of the 4,000 photographs amassed from the time of St Mary's Priory and the transfer to the MSCs in 1966, through the 70s, 80s and 90s to the early 00s.

The evening was part of a new project to systematically archive Princethorpe documents, photographs and other memorabilia.

Celia Scott, the College librarian together with local resident and past parent John Dyke, are in the process of sorting and cataloguing all the material prior to storage in a new purpose equipped, temperature and humidity controlled archive room within the College.

Comments, Eddie Tolcher, Foundation Bursar and OP, "In the process of gathering all the material together we have come across some items that are a complete mystery to us. It was great to have such an enthusiastic bunch shed some light on the names and events that are such a formative part of the College's history."

Anyone interested in coming to further archive events should email Celia Scott