Hi,
I'm one of the brothers of Tracey Foxcroft of Khancoban who wrote about the
swimming pool.
We had lots of fun times trapsing through the school grounds when they were
called McConikies Paddock, after hours, watching out for "Clotty" the
Caretaker and clearing v-e-r-y quickly when disovered.
Used to see lots of boys doing strange things during school hours just
outside the grounds during playlunch and lunch-times as we lived at Ethel
Street when my father built the house in 1962 till I personally left in
1979, the rest of my family selling in 1992.
We watched the actual school being built bit-by-bit, watching it gobble up
all the houses bordering on Ethel St, Botany St and Anderson Ave.
(Investigating those houses when they became empty prior to demolition)
My father went to the school when it was at Albion St, Paddington after his
intermediate at Hurstville Tech School.
My father now lives in South Australia, I live in Brisbane Queensland, my
brothers scattered to other parts in Queensland.
Been good to spend the time looking through the Sydney Tech web pages, and
also your 1969 reunion web pages.
Unfortunately my father tells me he will not be able to attend your 11th
Sept 2006 get-to-gether because he will be back in Adelaide. But he will
attempt to come to the school about the 7th and 8th of September 2006 while
passing through Sydney on his way back to Adelaide.
Phil Bruce 1971-1976 (1962-1971: watching you from home come to school)
Robin Bruce 1950-1951
Wow this is so cool to just find this post by accident. What great times we all had going up to the school when apparently closed, but not to us. There was regularly a whole in the fence and in the pool we would go, usually someone on the look out for that scarey caretaker. It sucked that the school bought our house and we had to move away from my bestest buddy and my second family,I truly would not have survived my childhood without the Bruce family. Thankyou. Maree
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