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   Like so many of us I keep plodding on despite life's burdens and difficulties as all of us are doing, Even the youngest Cotonians are now in their 70's and a few if still with us are in their 90's. A quick look at the albums soon brings back fond memories of the time we spent at Coton House and the "Works". Very different times to now. things have changed so much so quickly that our then World has all but disappeared. I am glad to say that I still have contact with a number of people from Rugby and Coton so I still maintain a connection. As I have always said "Call them up before its too late!"

   The Years roll on and sadly we do not, alas as we are all getting older, and sadly some of our old friends are off to "the ultimate apprentice school". The amount of contacts made is now near zero, the web site has been a lot of fun and pleasure to me and many, but I will only continue it as a very basic site. I have opened a Facebook group " Cotonians".  If you can get in touch with your old friends , do so! and its never too late even if it has been 50 + years!! -  phone a friend!  One of the most satisfying and empowering things that has come about by involving myself in "Old Cotonians" is the rekindling of old relationships. You to, by a simple act of contacting that "Old Friend" could get the same satisfaction and delight. Don't just send that annual Christmas card - contact them, see them, meet them , life is too short, we are getting uncomfortably close to the ending our "time". 2022 now over 60 years since I started at Coton, but still I love the memories that we all share. If nothing else I'm sure we all send out the same thought to all - Health and Happiness.   

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I have two tales - both about Coton food.

 The first is one I heard of, but have not had authenticated. The fried eggs at breakfast 1958/9 where so hard one could use them as shoe leather. Well it seems that things got to a head and in unison - and spontaneously 100 + eggs where pinned (using drawing pins) to the wall of the OLD canteen. After which the eggs improved.

Horse Meat Pie 
    During 1962/3 the menu included a meat pie whose main constituent was Corned Beef, not to bad - but somewhere in the cooking process  things seemed to go wrong because this could be smelt from the top of the drive (about 1/2 a mile). leading to it being named "Horsemeat Pie" Again a spontaneous refusal to eat the said thing resulted in it going off the menu.

Coton Radio
"BTW has anyone ever mentioned “Coton Radio” about 1963/4 it went on the air broadcasting, using basic audio amps, through the earth and neutral of the power sockets and anyone who connected a speaker to the neutral and earth was able to receive the music and commentary, usually Rugby songs (sport Rugby not place Rugby). I think it was closed down when the warden picked it up on his TV, or someone a few villages away picked it up. Not exactly certain what the reason was but it only ran for a short while before being closed." ? That was our pirate radio and I think it predated Radio Caroline and Simon Dee in March 1964.