Old Princethorpians

If you or your parents have got old school reports, school or team photos, old uniform or other artefacts from your days at Princethorpe, we would love to see them!

The College has a new Librarian, Mrs Celia Scott, who will also act as College Archivist and she will be starting to archive existing material soon.

We hope to be able to share things like old photographs online in time, so the more we have at our disposal the better.

Please send your Princethorpe treasure through to Melanie Butler, OPs Secretary c/o The College or email Melanie Butler.

Michael Binney (1970 - 77) is now aged 50, he is one of the many OPs based in Hong Kong and runs a consultancy business with twin brother Paul, who looks after the European side of things.

Michael has a host of memories for the Memory Bank:

The boarding area and washing facilities with the cold water and old gov't
surplus beds and other furniture, the lights out and the supervising staff
looking to give the slipper to any misbehaving youths.

As a weekly boarder I always felt sorry for the full boarders, 4 nights a week
was bad enough!

The older priests, some of who were quite used to giving you a flick on the ear or the
ruler on the hand to discipline you.

Walking the round mile was always great.

The boarding side of the school and the addition of those boys from overseas,
gave the school an edge and made it more interesting, I don't know whether that
is missing now!