Places you went to on school trips

[hans kraay fan club]

Booth Museum
Engineerium
Hove Museum
Battle Abbey
Weald
Some residential science place in the Ashdown Forest where we all got off with some girls from Hayward's Heath
Dieppe for a week.

 

[cardboard]

Woods Mill
Fishbourne
Weald and Downland
The synagogue next to the cricket ground
Barattan (sp) park in Shrewsbury
something lodge near Petworth
Amberley
Isle of Wight

 

[wehatepalace]

I did LSD in the bike shed.

I did Sally Roberts in the bike shed

 

[Marty McFly]

You went to the Imperial War Museum. I'm sure you went on the Jack the Ripper Whitechapel trip too.

Oh yeah. Quite enjoyed the Jack the Ripper trip.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Mrs DTG went to

Brecon Beacons for a week ( hated it - cold wet miserable camping up a mountain)


She thinks that is all.


As she works in a school she has doner a few as harrassed teacher!!!!

 

[Dave the OAP]

Oh, I've just remembered Preston Manor as well. We had to dress up as Victorian children. It was RUBBISH.

the Children of Mile Oak still do that every year...my how they love it

 

[The Oldman]

Blimey I feel deprived. At school in the '50's and all I can remember is Hove Town Hall for speech day, King Alfred for swimming gala, Hove Parish Church for Bishop Bell to preach a sermon and The Granada Cinema in Portland Road to see the Ascent of Everest!
No wonder I'm a crazy mixed up OAP

 

[nobody's dupe]

I forgot about Drusillas. Surely most people went there with their school too.

In my young days the equivalent of Drusilla's was Brighton Zoo. I used to get all excited prior to a school trip there.

The vast majority of posters on this board visit the same site and pay good money to do so on a regular basis. All of them can't wait for the day when they don't go there again.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Being near East Grinstead it was ALWAYS London Zoo.

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

That Downlands place,
Portchester Castle
WW1 places in Belgium & France,
one of the roman villas (not fishbourne)

not sure where else

 

[desprateseagull]

spooky, i thought of the weald museum straight away, seeing this thread.. has anyone NOT ben there?!

other school trips-
- jesus christ superstar musical, in London (Paul Nicholas was the main star)

- science museum / hampton maze.

- Dieppe for the day (we were warned that no firework bangers were allowed.. yeah right!)

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Edinburgh Zoo. They always took us to Edinburgh Zoo. The wolf enclosure was the scariest, on account of its broken-down fence and dark impenetrable woodland. Doubt there were ever any wolves in there in the first place, if truth be told. Or maybe they ran away.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

This has seriously made me want to go back to the Weald & Downland museum now, just to see if it's how I remember it.

Anyone else want to come?

Also, my secondary school always took the new first years to Blacklands Farm, somewhere near East Grinstead I think. So all the kids could get to make new friends by pushing each other into Weir Wood Reservoir, and laughing at the fat kids who couldn't climb up the rocks or were too scared to abseil down the tower.

How cruel children are...

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Shoreham power station
Beeding cement works
St Jean De Luz (south-west France)
Aldwych Theatre (Midsummer Nights Dream)
Shaw Theatre (Romeo & Juliet)
Chichester Festival Theatre (Doctor's Dilemma)
Imperial War Museum
Hampton Court
Brecon Beacons
Dieppe (bought cheap wine and threw up all the crossing back)
Windsor Safari Park
Madame Tussauds/Planetarium
Strange theatrical production on West Pier

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Shoreham power station
Beeding cement works
St Jean De Luz (south-west France)
Aldwych Theatre (Midsummer Nights Dream)
Shaw Theatre (Romeo & Juliet)
Chichester Festival Theatre (Doctor's Dilemma)
Imperial War Museum
Hampton Court
Brecon Beacons
Dieppe (bought cheap wine and threw up all the crossing back)
Windsor Safari Park
Madame Tussauds/Planetarium
Strange theatrical production on West Pier

Wasn't that the list of alternative sites suggested by the NIMBYs at the last Public Inquiry?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Wasn't that the list of alternative sites suggested by the NIMBYs at the last Public Inquiry?

I reckon at least fifteen posters have had the W&D experience. How unimaginative our schools were

 

[Yorkie]

spooky, i thought of the weald museum straight away, seeing this thread.. has anyone NOT been there?!

Me. Where is it?

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Went to many of the places named, Cuckmere Haven, Weald and downland but also went on a trip to France where we visited Paris, much delight in buying flavored chewing gum, Sunday Girl on 7" vinyl in French, BANGERS and playing cards of nude ladies.

We also did trips with the cubs and I remember one to the old argus building where we helped with the type setting for the paper.

 

[fosters headband]

A week on a nature trip at Lee on Solent.
I think it must have been an ex army or navy camp, as it was all wooden dormatories.
The only highlight I can remember, was all the boys getting up early in the morning to listen to the Don Cockell V Rocky Marciano fight live from the USA, around 1955.

And a trip to the Acadamy, West Street to see the film The Robe.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Did anyone else do Hindleap Warren activity centre in the Ashdown forrest, seemed a long way from Brighton but its only just south of East Grinstead.