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Ducko #258002 17th Sep 2008 8:58am
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Thanx for signing my guestbook and for letting people know about my site!
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Anyone interested can get an old boys school tie BIOB(£11)
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There is also a new site for Mr W. S. Connacher, the first Headmaster of the Birkenhead Institute at:

http://wsconnacher.webs.com/

should anyone be interested in the history of the B.I.
The school was founded in 1888, and opened in 1889, and closed its doors finally in 1994 after over 100 years.

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Think I was amongst some of the last years to finish there...
1981 ish to 1988....
hated it at the time...
but now and again,I remember the good things.. which takes all of a couple of seconds, before the fact that it was shithole comes back to me.

naah seriously...good times and bad...had some right laughs, and got into some right scrapes.


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I left the BI in, ahem, 1958. It gave me a great education even though I didn't stay for my GCSE's. What I learned there stood me in good stead, even up until now. Pity it looks like the thread has died out, like some of my old school oppo's.


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hi all i went to this school in 1980 till 1984 .thought it was brilliant not for the lessons and stuff but it was the last place where i got to be with all me mates at once .got some great memories and made some good mates there .if any one has any photos of this place would love to see them

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The BI History web site is always being updated, and also there is a Visor, (BI School Magazine history), site at:
http://bivisor.webs.com/

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Thanks for that Phil, haven't looked for a while but will do so.


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I didn't go there but I heard that BI's school song was sung to the tune of The Red Flag. Does anyone know if this is true ?

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I left there in 58 and I can't remember that but then again that is no yardstick as I forget a lot things now.


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My dad went to Birkenhead Institute, not sure what year he left, he was born in 1944, if that coincides with any of you former pupils.

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Yer. Wilfred owen ww1 poet went to b.i.

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Funny thing is, on the wall in the Assembly Hall they had "If" by Rudyard Kipling. Can't remember seeing any Owen stuff around but they used to remind us that he went there.


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There's a memorial window to Wilfred Owen on the stairs of the Central Library.

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Originally Posted by lansyp
hi all i went to this school in 1980 till 1984 .thought it was brilliant not for the lessons and stuff but it was the last place where i got to be with all me mates at once .got some great memories and made some good mates there .if any one has any photos of this place would love to see them


would also love to see some of the old tollemache rd school,cant believe there's non around ,only pic of the early years when it was in whetstone lane ,

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