Welcome to our new Blog for ex boys and teachers of the Cray Valley Technical High School. If you are new to blogs this is a quick guide to help you find your way around. You will find the blog very intuitive and easy to use but if you do have any problems please email me at colin@cvths.com.
1. Click ‘Send me updates’ in the ‘Get Updates by Email’ box to the left. Every time a new post is made on the Blog you will receive an email with a link to that post. This helps us in admin as it means we don’t have to keep emailing you with reminders as the new system will now do this for us. Please help us to help you keep up to date!
2. The latest post will always appear on the Home page of the Blog followed by five of the other most recent in chronological order. To see a post within it’s own page and showing the comments already associated with that post click the heading.
3. Older posts can be accessed either by clicking ‘Older Posts’ at the bottom of the page or by using the drop-down menu in the ‘Archives’ box to the left. The archived blogs are listed by month and year along with the number of posts in each month. We have already transferred all the previous posts from our original Blog along with their comments but at present they are minus the original images which accompanied them. (It was not possible to enable the transfer of images when converting from MobileMe to WordPress so we are having to do this manually and it is likely to take some time. Please bear with us). In time more old articles and ‘Emails to Us’ will be archived into this new Blog so the whole system will grow in size from each end of the timescale!
4. ‘Search the Blog’ is self-explanatory and you will find this a quick and highly effective way to find any post containing your chosen search word(s).
5. Please use the ‘Leave a Comment’ facility freely. You don’t have to be signed up with WordPress to do this but all comments will be moderated. It is a great pity that this is necessary but there have been some not so pleasant remarks made in the past and this will ensure only appropriate content is published. This is not a forum for ranters! If the ‘Please leave your comments’ box is not visible simply click ‘Leave a Comment’ and it will appear. Click on ‘Guest’ and then enter your name and email address. Your comments will then be checked and published and you will receive an email confirmation. You must use your name as anonymous comments will not be allowed. (you will notice a number of comments attributed to ‘Anonymous’ in posts prior to 01 October 2011. This was unavoidable as a result of the transfer from the old system).
6. You can either leave unique comment by submitting your comments via “Please leave your comments here” or click ‘Reply’ within another visitor’s comment if your information relates specifically to that comment.
Thank you Colin Cadle for keeping the Cray Valley website alive. Towards the end of November 2011 I managed to meet up with David Turner, Steve strong and Martin Webb. It was amazing after all these years to see these guys and apart from the obvious memory sharing it was interesting to learn about the different career paths we chose to make a living. Although I have been living in Monmouthshire since 1985 I still return to Orpington to visit my parents who live just off Goddington Lane. Without the website our meetings would not have happened. We met at the Bo Peep in Chelsfield which is close to Steve Strong’s house and my parents. I am sure that we will be meeting up again in 2012 and hopefully we might see a few more Old Cray Valleyians to share a few stories and pints with.
I also enjoyed reading Barry Jackson’s A-Z which was a great memory jogger as we both started in 1959, thanks Barry.
Best wishes,
Trevor Heywood
I went to Cray Valley Technical school between 1954 and 1961, and I am therefore one of the generation that never learned to type. My son and daughter can type at the speed of light, whereas I type at the speed of darkness.
For years I have plodded away using one finger on my right hand. It is painfully slow doing any typing.
But what you are seeing in front of you now is a result of a wonderful piece of voice recognition software. It is known as Dragon and is only a few pounds from Amazon.
As you can see from what I have “typed” it makes very few mistakes.
It is very good at spelling and therefore Mr Mayo would have been very pleased with the results. It can even recognise names like Mr Mayo, and even Mr Kingsland. Let’s try your name Colin. Colin Adele. Well nearly, Colin. You have to change your name so that Dragon voice recognition software and recognise you!
So, if there are others out there from my generation who are also fed up typing have a go at Dragon. If you’re not convinced go to YouTube on the Internet, type Dragon demonstration in the search box, and have a look at the many examples of tutors speaking into the camera and text appearing instantly on the monitor.
are there any other old Cray Valley boys out there who have this Dragon software?
Colin, it looks like your idea of putting a Cray Valley blog onto your website will be a great success.
All the best Colin, and I look forward to speaking/typing to you in the future.