Brighton College

When I left Oxford in 1870 with a decent degree and nothing much else in particular to brag about, I took perforce to that refuge of the destitute, the trade of schoolmaster.

To teach Latin and Greek verse at Brighton College, Cheltenham College, Reading Grammar School successively was the extremely uncongenial task imposed upon me by the chances of the universe.

But in 1873, Providence, disguised as the Colonial Office, sent me out in charge of a new government college at Spanish Town, Jamaica.

I had always been psychological, and in the space and leisure of the lazy tropics I began to excogitate by slow degrees various expansive works on the science of mind, the greater number of which still remain unwritten.

That's true.

So it was spring '64 And Barbara Hulanicki was a, um, an illustrator, I think, from Brighton College, and she on the side had been making these, what were called dolly dresses.

And Felicity rang up and said, "I'd like to do a reader offer." And they did do reader offers in those days, and what you did was you, you sort of filled in a coupon and sent a postal order and, and then you got a dress back.

And Barbara chose pink gingham, and she did this, it was almost like a, a shift dress, quite short, quite fitted, and then at the back it had a little keyhole.

We'll see who's right at the end of the weekend.

Moving on to the second group then, which is Brighton College, Cheltenham College, Denston and Whitchurch.

A group that, when it was first drawn, I thought could go anyway.

But then we've seen the season unfold and Cheltenham College have been brilliant.

NSB got a good one against Berco.

Brighton College, Tunbridge, mate, 12-7 in the Prem at the moment and at the highest level.

Everybody's saying, where are the defences? Attack on top.

Well, that sounds a bit old school, doesn't it? Love that.

So yeah, I think, and the pre, the schools that have these very inclusive pre-seasons, I think it's important because you're not just going as one team, you're going as essentially like 35 boys, if not more.

You know, I know Brighton College take like 60, which I think is brilliant.

You know, they all take the whole club.

So it's, It's, it's, it's hugely important and actually something that we spend a lot of time planning and prepping for because we know the value it brings into the season.

But yeah, they're currently sat in third, played 3-1-3.

You've got Warwick in fourth, also played 3-1-3.

Radley the same, Brighton College in sixth.

I mean, that is some top six, isn't it, when you look at it? And again, I suppose, casting the light again on Richie Rees and Monmouth.