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CommentsWe were students at Bath Academy in the sixties. Sue was on the Ceramics/painting & drawing Institute (teacher training) course from 1963-66. Malcolm (Mac) was on the Institute course from 1965-68. We got married in 1968, both taught Art for a long time! Sue has just retired as assistant head of a large comprehensive and I am self employed having taken early retirement from the LEA advisory service in 1997. |
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CommentsWhat a brilliant site - good to relive those carefree days when I could spend all day doing nothing but make pots (the downside was having to attend those interminable glaze lectures from David Green). Most of my pots from those days are lost or broken, but I still have pots by Sally Smith (a seagull cup), Roy, Henry Ziandi(?), Alison Coath (a small blue & white jug) and *Geoff Pickett. Would love to hear from anyone who remembers me. |
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CommentsLooking for Fleur and Blomf, hope more mid 1950's info will start to appear during 2002!! |
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, especially to you Gerry with thanks for the site. |
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CommentsI just loved going through this site, it has brought back so many wonderful memories. I am still painting and creating though I don't do much with it all, just hoard it, but hey! I must try and dig out some photos, a lot have been lost alas. I have not been too well and am confined to bed/house so seeing this stuff cheered me greatly. I am a vegetarian now but boy do I remember the bacon butties every morning... If anyone remembers me I would love to hear from you... I can almost taste those cheese and potato pies in the Royal Oak with a nice pint on art history lunch times very long dart throwing lunch times, sorry Robin... great site thanks.... |
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CommentsI remember the Newcastle Brown Club when Jo Hope (senior Lecturer) caught us tasting the Home Brew in B12 and told us off!!! But he was encouraged to sample some of the nectar and ended up completely rat arsed like the rest of us. It's about time someone else from the 1965 - 69 intake made an appearance. Welcome onboard Mike - sculpture department - and a Merry Christmas to you! |
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Happy Christmas to you all . . . only discovered this site today, 21st December. Recently moved and sorting out those boxes in the loft came across BAA memorabilia . . . photos, sketch books, library tickets, momentos . . . my time at Corsham was a real education . . . in 1973 I married Frances Kingsnorth who was at Corsham 1969-73 doing Ceramics. I started the Academy football team in 1968 and called it Praxiteles, we played the local navy team and the West of England and Cardiff Art Colleges, we always had a keen female following, I'll send a photo in . . . . and who can forget the Newcastle Brown Club that met on Fridays after tea in Jim Parker's room in Beechfield playing his silver guitars to Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland . . . memories of working and playing hard. |
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CommentsHi, I am trying to find out information on Margaret Garland who taught at the Bath Academy of Art when it opened in 1946. I have a couple of small watercolours signed M Garland and was trying learn more about the artist and I am not having much luck maybe you can help. Thanks Roger MacLeod , Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
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Just a 'happy christmas' to all readers! Especially you Gerry for the excellent job of managing the site so well - technology yet!!! Sadly I can't seem to catch anyone on the talksite as Oz is the rear-end of the globe and no-one is awake!!! I have been enjoying the additions to the various photo-areas no end - keep it up!! Cheers from down under, Rita. |
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CommentsWell this is wonderful. A blast from the past that is really welcome. I loved my three years at the best holiday camp in Wiltshire. My mates included Martin Nolan - I can't find him anywhere now, does anyone know where he is? - Keith Yarker (fellow scouser) and Carl Harrison. Not to mention Kevin Ancient and Heather, Martin ? from Oban, Steve the sculptor from Swindon, Maggie from Devon...Dave Atkinson illustrator and lecturer and Big John Tooth senior. All the best to you all!!! |
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Lovely to see some familiar names again. The website is great, I've been a fan of this website for ages and hats off to Gerry for all his hard work!! What halcyon days, wandering in bohemian fashion around surely one of the most beautiful colleges in the world, discussing art in an earnest fashion, embibing rat-enhanced cider and marvelling at the wonders of nature. Magic! The Halloween parties at Corsham Court were particularly memorable. Lots of love to everyone, thanks for a fantastically memorable three years. |
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CommentsStill living in Cornwall! Like to hear from anyone who remembers me. |
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CommentsWell it's been some time since I was able to access a bit of technology and check on the BAA site and I've had a great hour going through the photos and reading the messages. Now I'll have to spend a bit of time contacting some of the old lags directly. It's a great site Gerald, I have a range of Photos at home and once I can figure things out I'll post them on the net. Does anyone remember the Mr Bath Academy of Art calendar? It never got printed but I know Jane Foster has a contact sheet of all the semi naked guys, including Dick Goodie who got voted in for the front cover. I'll see if I can get Jane to send it in!!! Anyone with time on their hands who wants to drop me a line please do though it may take a while to get back to you, and sorry for not contacting you Neil Adcock, but I misplaced your address. Does anyone know what happened to Sally Smith?? Regards to you all...... |
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CommentsBlimey! What memories (good and bad!) come back. And the names, Benno
Zehnder, Ruth Zehnder, Mike Gray, John Furnival... |
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Great site - so comprehensive. Brought back many memories, although they have never really left me. I have some photos somewhere and will try to locate them. |
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CommentsWhat a great idea! Some names I am more than a little familiar - John
Leipins, Simon Cork, Caroline Jefford to mention just a few. I am in contact
with Steve Roe, David Theobald, Jennie Francis, Jennie Norman, Hamish Muir
(who told me about this site), John Woodhouse (who works with me in
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CommentsThey do say "never go back". Rubbish. This site has been a marvellous experience for me, seeing so many familiar but strange faces. I was at BAA between 1978 and 1981 doing graphics under the mighty Benno Zehnder. I'd love to hear from anyone who remembers me (or doesn't). For the record I spent time in Ethelred House and 40 High Street. Along with Martin Walker, I used to do quite a few parties/discos at hostels. Being a Wigan lad, much time was spent discussing major issues at the Pack Horse, The Methuen Arms, The Three Brewers?, Cross Keys and others. Particularly love to hear from Simon Johnstone, Rod Clark, Don Whiteford, Susan Taylor, Kate Strachan, Ann Ramsden (ceramics), Jane Parker, Cloe, Calvin Davis, Bev Seth. Phew. Please get in touch. |
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CommentsWe thoroughly enjoyed looking through the site. We are researching for a book on Stephen Russ who besides being a lecturer at B.A.A. was the designer of many of the covers for the Penguin Poetry Series as well as many other books. If you have any interesting memories of him from your time at Corsham please get in touch. |
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CommentsNot a student, but a local who enjoyed BAA being there. Drank many bottles of Derek Pope's red! I think Corsham lost a lot when the college closed. Would like to hear from Rosemary Matthews, ceramics student in 1975, now thought to be living in Leeds. I live in Adelaide, South Australia, if there are any other antipodeans who want to share a memory of Corsham. By the way, the 'what was it picture' of a building in the High Street... was Barclay's Bank. |
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CommentsAfter Corsham, I did a postgraduate diploma in Typography at Leicester Polytechnic (as it was in '71). John Pennicott and I got married in 1973 and settled in London. I went on to work as a designer in book publishing, however after 7 years I had a career break and now work in the theatre as an administrator. We have 2 children, one involved with the theatre and one studying sculpture at Chelsea College of Art. Life goes in circles! We would love to hear from anyone who remembers us from our time at Corsham. |
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CommentsWould like to hear from anyone who remembers me and Alice Mitchell. We have a group photo taken in June 1971 which we plan to add to the website soon. |
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CommentsBAA the scruffiest rugby team on earth, odd socks, no two shirts the same colour and some students playing in plimsoles. We did beat the Packhorse team one Sunday afternoon in a rather drunken game, and the fumes in the scrum were deadly. We also drew with the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester on their ground much to their surprise, the post game meal was good , but I couldn't understand a word they said with all those plums in their mouths! |
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CommentsRight now visiting Brian Wall and Jan Lewis in Pangbourne with Caroline Jefford. We remember the good old days... ahhhh. Where are we all? How grey are we? How fat is Brian? Are we all fabulously rich and successful? Yeh, sure. |
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CommentsCorsham....the government sponsored three year holiday...oooh (sighs...eyes slightly moist) but it had to be shut down, such a lovely place completely squandered on students! I'm amazed it was ever allowed in the first place!!! I had a wonderful time there. |
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CommentsJesus .. I never thought anyone would take BAA so seriously...... I spent the most fantastic 3 years of my life, drinking in the Packhorse, painting, drinking in the Packhorse, flirting, drinking in the Packhorse, "smoking" , drinking in the Packhorse, making fantastic friends , drinking in the Packhorse .......Liz Biggin, where are you?, .......Charles Nathanal Clegg, where are you? ...Mike Stubs where are you? I am slightly concerned at the anal level of fascination with BAA.. yes it was great but..... historical documentation is a bit weird.. We all have our impressions of BAA so please accept this as such and not an attack. I LOVED being at Corsham, it's history etc., in fact a cousin of mine married his sweetheart in the church in 1942, so there in a family connection. but really.... |
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Thanks to Barry Biggins I was put in touch with this useful site. In 1998 I was able to organise a reunion for the years 1956-1960 (mainly for the 1957 intake) which we held at the Methuen Arms, because we were always refused entry when we were scruffy art students. If you want to be put in touch with people from these years I may be able to help. |
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CommentsAs many of you, I was given the link to this site via friendsreunited and I was thrilled to see it. Enjoyed the photos too, it still feels a privilege to have "studied" at Corsham! |
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CommentsI too stumbled across this site after first contacting friendsreunited. Talk about the memory floodgates being flung wide open!!! Looking at all the old places, the intervening 20 years just seem to vanish. I too have loads of photos from the 'Class of 84', some of which I might even organise for this site - including many from our more 'musical' moments; anyone remember 'The Wicked Feedbacks'??! If there are any other inmates from 81-84 out there (hello Cathy!) please drop me a line over the email. I've often thought that I should try and contact old friends from the past; this will be a great way to actually do it. Who knows, we might even be able to organize a re-union somewhere. |
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CommentsGreat to find this. Hope that some who haven't made it to our recent reunions will get in touch. |
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CommentsMick Downs? He was one of the tutors at St. Helens College of Art and
Design. Merseyside, oh way back 1981 - 1983. It was he who persuaded me to
attend Bath Academy. Class 1983 - 1986 Sculpture under the watchful eye of
of Mike Pennie (I remember it well!!!) Sorry don't know where MD is now. |
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Many thanks to my baby sister - and she's in her early 40's!, through her I found out about the friends reunited site and out of curiosity tried the Academy name - what delight to find this site. I was there during the fight with Avon Council to keep the single surviving monopoly. I don't think any photo's have survived my many moves and one particularly difficult break-up, but I shall have a rummage. My brother worked out of Bristol for a few years in the early 1990's and on one visit we did Corsham - so sad to see the decay of Beechfield House etc. The nissan huts that held some of the pottery studios almost falling through, ah! memories of frozen fingers as one tried to manipulate the cold clay - wasn't it great when Jack was 'doing a firing' folks! You Fine Artists and Sculptors don't know how we Potters had to suffer for our art...!! I was lucky enough to be ensconced within the Barn (horseshoe) so winter months weren't too painful. |
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CommentsI would be pleased to be contacted by anyone who hails from those far off days when Beechfield was at the end of a bike ride from somewhere out yonder at around midnight (and when one prayed that Bruce Kent had not locked the gates before going to his bed). |
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CommentsOk, I stuck the mirrors on the mirror ball! (Brian) Remember...Nigel Collins' blue lurex dress, bacon rolls in the canteen, parties upstairs in the Pack and Royal Oak. What ever happened to...Gary Kidd (43 Pickwick), Helen Atkinson, Jenny Francis, Colin Timm? Still in touch with...Caroline Jefford, Nigel Collins, Simon Cork, Kate Cushion, John Liepins, Lynne Wilkes. |
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CommentsI love the site, one or two photos from my time. I didn't have a camera in those days but have some 8 x 10's of a lavish Christmas dinner in the attic in no 40 - with the said Paul Coope who seems to get a lot of mention and others. Will dig them out and borrow a scanner sometime. Does anyone know what happened to Geoff, (forgotten his last name) in Fine Art, my year, who lived in G.... what was the name of that village near Monks Park? He drove a Citroen and always remained sober so that he could ferry us about! I was one of those who spent a year at Monks almost never to return, have mixed feelings about the place - not great for those with any depressive tendencies - difficult to articulate after a week with few visitors. I'd do it again though, with today's experience found Friends Reunited via Brian Wood and Jan Lewis who I met in Henley on Thames last week, surprise after 23 years - and then this. |
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CommentsThanks for the link Jacqui. Great site, takes you back. Many memories, mixed emotions. Have to have a dig around for some pics. Personal details on the friendsreunited site if anyone wants to get in touch. Has anyone heard what happened to Keith Orange? |
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CommentsThanks for the link - excellent photos and some sadness at the loss of it all. I only did my Foundation course there, but it was a wonderful experience. I'll try and look out some photos.... |
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Studied graphics from 1978 to 1981 (I think!). I remember some interesting times studying under Benno (and Ruth) Zehnder, John Furnival, John Vince and Henry Cliffe, amongst others. Played in my first band there, and supported the Thompson Twins in the Union Hut. Bought and was electrocuted by a Bass Amp bought from a local who obviously knew better. Have done a great deal since in Germany, Holland and lately the UK, where I run a business developing software for the Playstation 2 and X-Box. |
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CommentsWonderful site, wonderful years though no preparation for the real
world. Among many places I stayed in was one of Nelly Logan's rooms in the
old Huguenot terrace next to the bakers (good buns). Called by 3 years ago -
same thin net curtains on my old room's window - Knocked on the door - Nelly
still alive and kicking, looking exactly the same as 25 years ago. There
must have been something good in the Pet Shop across the road. Any memories
of Benno's trip to Lucerne's' Faching, heavily subsidised by Swissair and
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Just had another browse through the site and have at last got mobile and scanned in some pics from 59/60/61 - we are talking a LONG time ago!!!! Gerry will probably get them set up on the Who's Who any time soon. Thanks Gerry!! Cheers from South Oz. Rita (Rich) Mulcahy |
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CommentsNostalgia overdose - great site and thank you to the person who listed the address from the friendsreunited pages on BAA. I married Angela (nee Fabian), who was on the same course, but sadly have had very little contact with anyone else from Corsham. The main exception being Jack Shirreff (runs printing studio in Shaw -107 Workshop), who is Godfather to two of our children! I run an advertising agency in Southampton, which I set up in 1983 after working in various design studios - even taught for a while on the Foundation Course at Southampton art college. I first stayed in a cottage on Box Hill but then moved to a (condemned) cottage on Bath Road and ended up in the flat over the 'Biker' cafe on the corner of the High Street - great for the pubs. Various drinking competitions spring to mind such as North v South - though the most frightening was the women's drinking contest! We did visit Corsham a couple of years ago and had a drink at the (or what was the) Pack Horse - now much more upmarket. I ended up sitting next to one of the locals - Eddy, who used to turn up at all the parties and still seemed to be suffering from when he landed on his head falling from a beam at a party in one of the girls halls. We would love to hear from anyone who remembers us at Corsham. |
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CommentsI was quite amazed to find BAA had contacted me here in Cyprus and I must
say that it is an excellent idea to get former students, especially from the
days in Corsham which was quite a unique experience, in touch with one
another. This took me back .. 41 years! from the first day I stepped into
Corsham Court for my interview. I am trying to find some photos and other
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CommentsIt brought a tear to my eye seeing all the old places again! I have LOADS of photos from the early 80's which I'll have to dig out from the loft and try to edit down to a representative few. I still see quite a few people from my Graphics course, although have totally lost touch with friends from foundation year. I'll keep visiting this site to see how it expands. Thanks, what a great idea. |
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CommentsLike Peter Feltham, I was not a student, but I spent most school holidays at the Beechfield site with my father, also John Tooth (or Big John), who was a technician in the Silkscreen printing area and general handyman. He went to Bath with the move and retired in 1995. I still see Barry Millard and Ewan Wannop, who worked there, along with Don Newman, who used to be the gardener. It would be nice to know if people remember my father, he still gets christmas cards from a couple of students. |
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Like many others I found this via friends re-united. No, Paul (Coope) that doesn't look like you, surely you didn't have a shirt with that collar! it is great to see pictures from the period I was there, didn't do much art at the time but had a wonderful time. Where else can you live in lovely old places, and have all that wonderful history (not the tutors) to play with. Have often wondered what happened to the threesome from ceramics, Roy, Liam and Wayne. (Roy, I lost the bowl you gave me). And also remember the Halloween party in the basement at Corsham court and the 'end of term ball' in the Canteen at Beechfield (and making the sparkly 'come dancing' globe out of a football and mosaic mirror tiles). Would love to be in touch with any of my fellow graphics students. I worked as a photographer and then went into IT, but still paint (horses), Benno, our Swiss head of Graphics, would not approve. |
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I returned to teach Fine Art printmaking part time in 1974 and am still there
although what was Corsham is now a department in Bath Spa University College. It
is in a great location at the top of Bath. It would be good to see past students
at the summer shows at the end of June if there is any interest in modern
students and their work and not just a nostalgia trip. I would be happy to
organize a tour and reception. There are still lots of recognizable faces still
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Student 1967-70, some of the best memories and happiest days of my life. I would do it all over again tomorrow. Went back last year for third or fourth time to be greeted by the keepers as another old student so a lot of us do go back. Gold Star for the site. I shall turn my photo boxes out and see what I can find. Still paint. Taught for twenty years in colleges, coming across Joe Hope, Michael Kidner and ex-student from my time, Phil Crozier. Now run a web site (www.hoteldesigns.net) and design practise in London. Like one of your other correspondents the unexpected find of this site through Friends Reunited brought emotion to grip me by the throat. Thank you. |
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i wasn't actually a student ... my Dad was the caretaker/ handyman/ bus driver of the Monks Park site at the Ridge near Gastard. I lived on site with my parents and brother from 1966 until it closed in 1981. If you are interested in any information from me I would be willing to give it ... or to ask my dad (Gerry FELTHAM). |
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CommentsIt was a great place to spend 4 years but I am not sure how much I learnt. Made some good friends, the best I have today. |
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CommentsHave only been able to keep in touch with a few people, would like to know the whereabouts of more of my contemporaries, in Fine Art as well as Graphics. I paint full time and exhibit. What a delight to be informed of this beautiful web site. My years there were extremely happy. |
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CommentsIt's great to find this site. I went back to Corsham ten years ago only to find that Beechfield had burnt down and all the huts had been demolished. There were nettles all over the rugby pitch and a terrible air of decay. Having done my ATD in Leicester I discover that the old Newark Street building had been demolished. Spooky! Having spent thirty two years teaching Art I've discovered I'm a crap artist, but good at bollocking kids! |
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CommentsGerry - love the site - will now go root around in dark cupboards looking for old photos. Still in touch with a couple of ex-Corshamites, Bet Ayr (graphics) and Marion Walker (ceramics), and of course am still married to Grace Dandridge (ceramics) and have been living back in Bath since 1990 after 5 years in Japan. Now running Time-Slice Films and working worldwide in | ||||
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