PEMBROKIANS UK (PUK)
FUNCTIONS, NEWSLETTERS, VIEWS AND NEWS DIRECT FROM THE UK CHAPTER
The Third PUK re-union, was held at Kingswood School Bath on Saturday 14th April 2007. Report (Photos pending)
PEMBROKIANS IN KENYA
Founding Girls' Commemorative Chapel Window
Repair of Chapel memorial chairs
Update of Ian Parker's 'A History of Pembroke House'
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Pembroke House: S 000 degrees 29 minutes 48 seconds, E 036 degrees 21 minutes 48 seconds
"..... How appropriate indeed, for those of us who 'enjoyed' the rule by rod of the Turner, Hazard and Opie eras! ......"
In founding headmaster, Harold Turner's own words, "The bird found on the school badge, is a martlet. The martlet is an imaginary bird ...... Read More
* Who's Who in the Pembroke House Fraternity
Identifies the separate entities which have a special interest in the affairs of Pembroke House ....
* The Formation of Kenya Educational Trust Limited
When Chris Hazard bought Pembroke House in 1947 he did so on the basis that the school would continue to operate on a commercial basis. How then did PH become a charity?
* Pembroke's Founding Girls - 1988, a milestone year in Pembroke's history with the arrival of the first girls ....
* Pembroke House and Kenya's Colonial Legacy At the dawn of Kenya's colonial era in 1887 " ........... to this day it is remembered as 'Syndicate' land, some of which had been acquired by a Captain Alan Gibson, who set about building himself a mansion ......"
* HRH The Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VIII, visited Pembroke House in 1928 .....and asked that the boys should have four days holiday to commemorate his visit to Gilgil ......
' ..... which Kenyan prep school can trace its origins to a blinding, tennis match?' Read More
* What makes a Pembroke House Father? - Philip
Coulson has the answer to that also ...... Read
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* Philip Coulson upbraids the out-going Chairman of Council, Adrian Luckhurst. " ...... whose two sons still hold the school record for running away from school and actually reaching Nairobi, without getting caught!" Read More
Memories are made of this
* J C Templer (1936 - 1939) remembers .... 'I transferred from the Dickensian government primary school at Nakuru in 1936, where, I have been told, I had developed signs of repression ......' Read More
* Christopher Collier-Wright. with a memory of traveling from Nairobi to Pembroke by train 'To Travel Hopefully is Better Than to Arrive ....' Read More
* Jitze Couperus *Attended Pembroke House from 1950 - 1954, where, for his sins, he "was known as Punda Marefu, or, equally eloquently, Tall Ass ....... Memories & photos
* Nicholas Browne aka author Nicholas Best. Recollections from his early days at Pembroke .... 'I had been at Pembroke House four weeks before they set the dogs on anyone ..... ' Read More
* Garth Pearse (1973 - 1978) An irreverent confession. '.......That evening Kerr - always one of the most game for a diversion - and I, plotted revenge .....' Read More
* The boy who broke the mould - Ajay Sood. A delicate child, barely 8 years old from Kisumu in Western Kenya, travelled to Gilgil and the immensely different portal that was Pembroke House. Read More
Barbed Wire was his undoing ..... a sentimental recollection by John Pembridge. 'George Marston ..... slipped and cut himself on a delicate part of his anatomy ..........' Read More
* Members of Staff - No complete record exists of who has been on the staff of Pembroke House. Here are some
* The Langa-Langa, a forgotten corner of Gilgil. What Pembroke pupils, from the 1950's and 1960's, will remember best about the Langa-Langa, is the once yearly, cross country run from the school, around the one-time motor racing circuit and back to school in time for a cold shower ........
* Murder in our midst - The murder of Dick Bingley
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Pembrokian Magazines
The following issues of 'The Pembrokian' are available as Adobe Acrobat.pdf version 5.0 or greater, format. If you do not possess the software, it is available online, free of charge at http://www.adobe.com
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Latest - Latest - Latest!
PUBLISHED -
JULY 2006
Shipwrecks
and Salvage
on the
East African Coast
1499 - 2004
by Kevin Patience
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* The Daily Telegraph Education Supplement featured a story, " A Corner of a Foreign Field", in its 30th August 2003 edition "The music master had spent 10 minutes gingerly prodding the snake with a stick, then a boy flung it into the bushes Read more ..... "
* Following publication of the above article entitled " A Corner of a Foreign Field", a letter was received from an unexpected quarter ......... Read more
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* A tribute in verse to Leo Mackie - from the pen of ex-master Mike Quatermass
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* John and Annie Boyd, a tribute for a combined 36 years service, Pembroke's loss is New Zealand's gain ....
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* Generations of Pembrokians? A listing of families who have contributed more than one generation for an education at Pembroke House
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* Speech Day 2003 - Pembrokians on display
In 2003, Pembrokian Sebastian Chambers drove a battered Toyota Land Cruiser overland to Kenya, . '' ....... result, a new yellow stripe down the side of the car, and a very angry Turk ....'' Read More
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* 'Kenya School Speak' - A lighthearted compilation, from the 1950's as recalled by Christopher Collier-Wright and Brian McIntosh
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*' Memories of Pembroke House and Kenya' - Willie and Elizabeth Pryor taught at PH from 1963 - 1965 .. "I applied for the job on the day that I hooked my first salmon" .... read more
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* 'From Robinson to Pembroke' Simon Head recalls his teaching experience at Pembroke House. "The first time I took the cross-country team on a dawn training run, three zebra bolted across our path ...."
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Pembrokians in History
* A memoir of service to Empire. Jitze Couperus, as a spotty 18 year old, commandeered the SS Robert Coryndon ".... in the name of Her Majesty The Queen ........" Read More
* Pembrokian Douglas Widgery held high office at the court of Sir Edward Mutesa II, The Kabaka of Buganda ......... Read More
Pembrokian Profiles
Maurice Frost - Our founding Chairman
Dave Harries - Pembrokians Chairman from 2003 - 2006
Nicolas Best - Best selling author and correspondent
The Bursells - Ake Bursell farmed sisal at Ruiru and, in 1928, donated the solid silver Bursell trophy for interhouse athletics, a coveted trophy which has been contested every year since.
Rusty Mayers - Kenya Open Tennis Champion for many years and a contender at Wimbledon on many occasions.
Cyril Widgery MBE - his 2002 bequest funded the new tennis courts at Pembroke House.
Johnny Onslow - More Pembroke than most
The Wilson Dynasty - (under construction)
Pembroke House in Print
* I Dreamed of Africa - Kuki Gallman
* Tennis and the Masai - Nicholas Best
* Dennis Wilson writes to The Spectator in 1936 - Kenya born and Kenya bred, strong in the arm and thick in the head ...!
* Child of Happy Valley - Juanita Carberry
* A History of Pembroke House - Ian Parker 1997
* Muthaiga Volume I 1913 - 1963 by Stephen Mills. A coffee table tome depicting life in Kenya would be incomplete without reference to Pembroke House
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