You may only know him as Black Mamba Man. He’s also Alistair Burton, Tredgold 2004. Here’s his latest song… a clever Zim version of Barbados (remember, Coconut Airways?)…
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You may only know him as Black Mamba Man. He’s also Alistair Burton, Tredgold 2004. Here’s his latest song… a clever Zim version of Barbados (remember, Coconut Airways?)…
There’s more on this permanent page on this site.
A titbit picked up on the Internet by James Whidborne (H’78) , with A C Grayling, one of Falcon’s better known luminaries, telling tales of canings and running away etc http://www.intelligencesquared.com/talks/a-c-grayling-on-running-away-from-boarding-school,-at-5×15 …there will, of course, always be debate about who holds the caning record. Some say it’s Tim Hawkins but did we really count them? Having listened…
For any of you who remember Gary Reeve-Johnson (Founders 1984), he has a book for you all – “Spindrift – Swept from Zimbabwe” – published under the shortened name of Lloyd Johnson (Lloyd being his middle name). About the bookA story of humanity, resilience and courage against the backdrop of Robert Mugabe’s tyrannical regime, it captures the…
Many of you will have seen the news about the P-51 pilot who sadly crashed at an air show in Reno on September 16th 2011. One of our old boys, Rick Fenner (Hervey1960 – 1964 – pictured left), was at this air show and, as you can see from his email below to Keith Gilbert,…
Sad news of a well-known Falcon Old Boy over the weekend http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11673939/Graham-Lord-writer-obituary.html
Photo credit: Ellen Elmendorp Award-winning journalist, David Beresford, (Hervey 1960 – 1965), passed away in Johannesburg on 22nd April after a long illness (Parkinson’s Disease. He was known and admired by his peers for three things: his dedication to his craft, a complicated personal life, and his capacity to balance the two with apparent equanimity. Those…
Few could have missed the tragic news of the death of Heath Streak on 3rd September 2023 at the age of 49. Looking around the media landscape, there are so many reports we could quote, but this one from the Telegraph is probably one of the best. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/09/03/heath-streak-dead-zimbabwe-colon-cancer-age-49/ Here he is in the Falconian team…