Keith Dersley
Grammar School Demigod
They were holding a Memorial Service at Ipswich’s #NewWolseyTheatre for Peter Hewett, Head of English throughout the time I was a pupil...
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Keith Dersley
Dec 6, 20194 min read
Fighting the Good So-and-So
One day not long after the encounter in which Paul Stopher’s windcheater got ripped, Rod came to me on the way home from school with a...
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Keith Dersley
Nov 29, 20192 min read
The Wrong End of the Road, 2
the same group of lads suddenly surrounded us. Taking his time, going the same way rather than following on their heels, came a thick-set f
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Keith Dersley
Nov 22, 20193 min read
The Wrong End of the Road
They talk about swagger, and Rod had his share. That was his personal style, and no one thought the worse of him for it. ..
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Keith Dersley
Nov 15, 20192 min read
Mind-Game Capers
Having a couple of mates in the world of psychiatric nursing back in the 1970s, I toyed with the idea of enrolling, but couldn't get in....
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Keith Dersley
Nov 8, 20193 min read
Four of Us Got Through
Along with two boys and one girl I was found eligible to attend Northgate Grammar School, amongst the 1961 intake. Ron, Dave, and I got...
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Keith Dersley
Nov 1, 20192 min read
Two Sorry Singles
But we left school and got degrees. After the heady student days .. the world moved in on us. We all had troubles with women.
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Keith Dersley
Oct 25, 20193 min read
In and Out of the Pub
Pubs that fell short, including those supplying a certain local brewery’s ales, which he considered too gassy, were ignored for ever more.
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Keith Dersley
Oct 18, 20192 min read
All of the Folk Scene That Was There to Be Dug
Northgate Grammar School’s Music Room stands out in glorious retrospect for two reasons. First, was the morning when...
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Keith Dersley
Oct 11, 20192 min read
Kings of the Common Room
We had gazed at our elders, the lads who had gone before: some of these were cool beatniks, others hearty tennis and rugby players
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Keith Dersley
Sep 16, 20192 min read
In Someone's Warm Shadow
McKuen was a phenomenon for a certain large minority. Some say more for women than men. Some say sentimental mush. Let them. But a lot of pe
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Keith Dersley
Jun 20, 20193 min read
Like Pharaoh's Slaves Before Us
We were at C&A from seven in the morning. Then at 8:30 I believe it girls would be arriving to get behind the tills.
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