"Old" Old Boys lunch 2018
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:56 am
"Old" Hillside School Old Boys Association
I received an invitation to attend the original Old Boys Association lunch on 21 November 2018. This group has existed since the participants were at Hillside in the 1940s. For many years there was an annual dinner on Diana Harvey’s (nee Bannister) birthday. Sadly she is now too ill to attend. There have been a number of venues but this year Harvey White arranged a private dining room at the British Medical Society’s premises off Oxford Street which proved to be a wonderful spot. As I was meeting a group who were at Hillside about ten years ahead of me I have to confess I was expecting some fairly elderly gentleman but what a youthful looking lot they were (Simon Hocombe tells me they all attribute their preservation to a spartan war time diet). It was a lively and very enjoyable occasion. Sitting L to R – Harvey White and Robin Whicker.
Standing L to R – Roger Noble, Simon Hocombe, George Birch and Nikolai Tolstoy.
Roger Noble
I received an invitation to attend the original Old Boys Association lunch on 21 November 2018. This group has existed since the participants were at Hillside in the 1940s. For many years there was an annual dinner on Diana Harvey’s (nee Bannister) birthday. Sadly she is now too ill to attend. There have been a number of venues but this year Harvey White arranged a private dining room at the British Medical Society’s premises off Oxford Street which proved to be a wonderful spot. As I was meeting a group who were at Hillside about ten years ahead of me I have to confess I was expecting some fairly elderly gentleman but what a youthful looking lot they were (Simon Hocombe tells me they all attribute their preservation to a spartan war time diet). It was a lively and very enjoyable occasion. Sitting L to R – Harvey White and Robin Whicker.
Standing L to R – Roger Noble, Simon Hocombe, George Birch and Nikolai Tolstoy.
Roger Noble