Welcome to our new Committee Members – October 2022
John Bellamy (1956-1964) As can be seen from the above dates, I spent a third year in the 6th Form as I wasn’t sure what to do for my future. I had been offered a place at Exeter to study chemistry…
Happy Christmas
A Very Happy Christmas and a Healthy New Year to all our members.
Next ADA AGM news
The next ADA AGM is scheduled for Saturday 4th December 2021. It will be held in the Study Centre Ashcombe School at 10:15am for 10:45am. More info can be found under AGM on this website. Attendance…
Current Situation.
There is a suggestion of an Autumn AGM and a Newsletter that may tell more. All will be revealed soon. The website remain diffficult and the projected change from ashcombedorkinian.com to…
Current situation with ADA website
It is very unclear what the future can be with this website with Yahoo/Verizon no longer supporting Yahoo Builder tools and insisting on Proprietary tools being used. This has been further…
Happy Christmas and may 2021 bring you good health
There is little to say except we hope all survive the turmoil of Covid-19 wherever you may live. This website lingers on having survived the machinations of Yahoo-Verizon. It is not exactly popular…
Concerned we are getting no help to survive
Despite many requests for some guidance, I remain uncertain how to save the website from collapse with the ‘Upgrade’ on July 1st. We know it relates to php and MySQL upgrades but we have no clear…
Times move on
We have reached May and there have been 27,000 plus deaths from Covid-19. One hopes things will progress back to a sort of normal but it will rake as long as it takes. There is no news reaching me…
ADA AGM on October 12th 2019
There will be an AGM at Ashcombe School on Saturday 12th October 2019. I would have hoped to display an Agenda but none has come to hand.
No news today, etc…
I must aplogise for the lack of regular news. I can only repeat what I am offered and I hear almost nothing. And nothing of any real interest. Perhaps we should just close the site down, but there…
Death of Dorothy Keenor
We have been forwarded details of Dorothy Keenor’s funeral and have been asked to share them with Friends of Ashcombe. There will be a short service and cremation at Crawley Crematorium on the…
Happy Xmas and New Year 2019
Must apologise for the lack of newa here but I hear nothing here these days and do not want to talk just for me. You don’t want to hear how I hate Brexit and all those excuses for it. I just wish…
The passing of Jo Taylor nee Secretan
Her son Peter Taylor wrote: I am sorry to advise that my dear mother and Grammer School PE Teacher, Mrs Josie Taylor (formally Miss Josephine Secretan) passed away on 25th June, aged 90. She had…
Spring Time in ADA Land
It is well into spring time and in happier days there would already be a Spring Newsletter for members to read and enjoy. One may eventually appear; indeed one knows such has been compiled but…
Next newsletter will be number 52
The next ADA Newletter will be the 52nd and we hope for another special edition. Any contributions that can epecially relate to the past 25 years and the past 51 editions will be most welcome. Send…
ADA AGM on October 8th
There will be an AGM of the Association at Ashcombe School on October 8th. I have just received details which I will pass and enter the info on to the website. There is no Autumn Newsletter so far…