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I have something to say...my name is Alexandra Thrift ( Hertford 1965-72 )
The father of a couple of Old Blues who himself was probably an old blue played the violin on several Beatles Tracks.His name was Eric Bowie and his sons Chris and Dave were both at Housey the same era that I was at Hertford. Eric played on "All You Need is Love". My friend Siobhan Kierans ( 6s 1966 -70) and I had gone over to visit Dave Bowie ( somewhere in London) and were hanging around in his kitchen when his Dad came home with violin case in hand and told us he had just been playing with the Beatles...but couldn't tell us what because it was a secret. We were thrilled. I've never forgotten it and checked a few years ago in case my memory was playing tricks on me and found Erics name immortalised on the Beatles credits ( book: Revolution in the Mind ).
Hi Alexandra,
Thank you very much for adding that. I dimly remember Dave Bowie and (less dimly) his younger brother Jake, an exact contemporary of mine; Chris may have been before my time. Knew nothing about their father though - glad to hear he has such a claim to fame.
I remember William Ward (La A 65-71) alluding in the Nineties to a circle of male and female CH pupils revolving around Siobhan Kierans. How rare such a mixture must have been in those days.
As you may have seen, three months ago I linked to a photo of you, but didn't know your exact dates, so thanks for supplying chapter and verse, as it were (now duly added to link).
Thankyou for your kind reply...Dave's brother (ginger hair) was indeed Jake...my memory failed me there and it was Dave that we knew the best...Jake being younger.
I would be interested to know if Eric ( Dave's Dad ) was an Old Blue or not.
I have good memories of William Ward ; I have read articles by him in newspapers.
I will contact you again but no time now.
Very best wishes,
Alexandra.
Can't find anything in my files to suggest Eric Bowie was an OB, but they're patchy and chaotic so that proves nothing. The Partnership Office at Horsham might know.
Must admit I've never met William Ward in person; I was thinking of a friendly newspaper article he wrote after Siobhan's mother's involvement with the young John Major was disclosed.
I met William Ward when he was at Housey and then when he was a lodger at Jean Kieran's House in Sreatham.
Siobhan and I both canvassed for John Major in Brixton in the Sixties ( knocking door to door with leaflets) simply because he was Jean's boyfriend ( we were too young to have any political affiliation) and he became a Lambeth councillor. John visited C.H. Hertford to see Siobhan on Long Sat. He was a "nobody" then but we knew him relatively well.
I often stayed with Siobhan in the school hols and Jean was like a surrogate mum.She was a surrogate mum to many of the C.H. waifs and strays ( boys and girls)and her door was always open if you needed help.
I've been watching all the Beatles stuff on the T.V. this week and thinking of Eric Bowie....and the time that Siobhan and I hung around outside Paul Mc Cartney's house during one school hol. and got to meet him....so many famous people in the lives of two C.H. Hertford girls in London in the swinging sixties !!
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