“The ordered march to Brighton was replaced by a trip to North Brighton Drill Hall when R. Nicholl and K.K. Garnock were the school’s only Senior Cadets: ‘We used to buy a packet of “My Darling” cigarettes and smoke them going to and from the Drill Hall’. They would have been sore had Dickinson known.”

“An Old Boy reminisced that prefects could award Saturday morning detentions and canings, but he did not remember older boys lording it over younger ones. Punishments were approved by the prefects’ meeting, and also by the Headmaster whose cane was necessary.”