Notes: Former teacher Peter Payne has sent us a fascinating video, all the way from Beijing where he now lives, It shows a school Journey trip, up in to the Alps. "He says In the 1970’s and 80’s outdoor pursuits were well promoted in inner London schools through the ILEA centre in North Wales. Alpine trips were run by the London Schools Mountaineering Association but the strong interest and enthusiasm from Elliott staff and students coupled with the necessary expertise and qualifications amongst the staff at that time lead to us mounting expeditions of our own. Over 170 students were involved in UK climbing trips over the years and about 30 students took up the challenge of the Alps on a total of four three week expeditions, each to a different, suitably chosen, area of the Swiss, French and Italian Alps.

In 1984 my climbing friend from the Alpine Club, Ian Haig, (who tragically disappeared on an expedition to the Karakoram range in 1986) joined us and set about the ‘Super 8’ cine film project. The project was a lot of fun to work on, not least for me editing in the music of Berlioz and Mike Oldfield and in the pre-digital camera age was very time consuming. Perhaps nowadays at Elliott the music chosen would more probably be created by students from the school".

Peter Payne
Beijing 2008

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Notes: I am a former Pupil and was lucky enough to be allowed to look around the school, some forty years after I had left it. I was even allowed to photograph some areas. I was astonished how little it had changed, but also saddened by how it had deteriorated. I realised that others might have the same nostalgia as me and started this website. As its popularity grew I noticed that many ex pupils now lived abroad and decided to make a video of those pictures available to all.

If you want to see them as 'stills' they are also available in the website's picture gallery.

Andy Lambert
Hampshire 2008

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