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Lendrick Muir School (LMS)
Rumbling Bridge
By Kinross

John Berwick

, a.k.a. JayBee, was at Lendrick between 1974 and 1978.

John
01/12/2001 17:04:14

John wrote: "Being an ex LMS maladjusted delinquent, as my social worker and psychologist described me, and later I asked what was a maladjusted delinquent and was told that it was a 70's in word or words and in fact there is no such thing.

I loved the time I spent at Lendrick but if I am honest there were times when I did not, but them times passed as they always do and life goes on you look back and say oh well but not take it to heart its a hurdle of life which by now we are used to, after all we did go to Lendrick and we are the people who we are be it thanks to  Lendrick or not. We are all getting older we have to keep in check that Lendrick was in the past and its only memories that we bring to the present day how many people have driven pass Lendrick and not gone in to visit.

I have but just to stand and look and remember was enough after all the picture one saves in there mind is enough and will never change over time its history now and Lendrick is no more be it you live a few miles from it or on the other side of the world Lendrick will always be our Lendrick. All we can do now is look back and have a cheeky grin on ones face as we know we were there and is it not that that counts."

John Berwick is 4th row 4th right

John Berwick wrote to say:

Hello, my name is John Berwick. I was at Lendrick from 1974 to 1978. My nick name was Jay Bee and I still use it to this day. I'm now 40 years old; God, I can't believe I'm that old now LOL. I had a great time when I was at Lendrick I did visit back in the 80s twice I think but it was a no notice thing just popped in and more or less popped out again. I have great memories of the place in fact I was in the Falklands during the war in 1982 and I used to think about my time at Lendrick made me smile in bad times you can say, I think i even wrote to the school when I was down there let people know that I was still alive and was thinking about them. That school was a great place and will treasure it in my memory for life. if memory serves me right they had a reunion in 1983 or 84 but I was back in the Falklands again I wish I had made it but maybe, just maybe, there will be another one. If so I would love to come see old friends and teachers; doubt there will be many alive now. Well I'm still alive. I'm still not married but have two kids boy and girl as you can see by the pic attached. I would be grateful if you would make my e/mail address free to anyone who wishes to get in touch with me; I live in Edinburgh so if anyone wants to meet me or write to me please feel free.

Yours sincerely,
John Berwick

Then he sent:

 Well hello Ian

I don?t know or I?m not sure if I remember you from Lendrick Muir been a few years now but your name is familiar. do you remember me john BERWICK a.k.a. jay bee I was there from 1974 to 1978 3 and a half years to me exact a few names and nicknames that come to mind are Monkey, Peanut, and Findi and a guy called Shelton Waters if I?m correct and a few others that are in the school webpage. I?m 40 now have two kids b/g 11yrs old and 9 yrs old I still live in Edinburgh I was in the royal air force for 6 and a half yrs from 79 to 85 came out had a few jobs took me a while to getting use to being a human being again served in northern Ireland and the Falkland so I had a few bad memories but I like to think I?m ok now but you never know. After I left the air force I had a few jobs then when I was 35 I went to collage and got my city in guilds in electronics so I?m into servicing things like that. the only two people I ever bumped into from Lendrick were Nicky Kirwin and Alison Coleman. Nicky was away back in 1982 I think and I last seen Alison around the same time I think I seen them when I was home on leave. But anyway how are you and what are you doing you must get back and let me know. The last time I heard from Lendrick was back in 82 or 83 I think there was a reunion or some thing but I was serving in the Falklands then and could not make it well I was 8000 miles away but I wish I could have made it. Pardon me but how did you get my e/mail address was it from the school webpage as I only found that yesterday. I seen quite a few names that I remember there and some pics. I have great memory?s of the place and am very sad that it has closed, a strange thing was that I heard it changed to a school for dyslexic kids well when I was 35 I found out that I was dyslexic small circles I think. Anyway, I won't rabbit on anymore I do look forward to hearing from you."

"and"

Danny, John Reece, and Ian Douglas (Findi) broke into the Beek's flat. John Berwick took the blame! Colin Webster and Derek (Deek) Walker gave him a kicking as a result. John also thought that Colin Webster was jealous of Ana-Marie Cummins.

hi ian

Hi

hi ian how are you

I'm good. How are you?

eh am just older lol

ian did you come from scotland

Good grief - it's a long time ago.

I'm from Glasgow

aye it is lol

and then Loch Lomond

i see

Bonhill

your no the beastie are you lol

Clabby used to follow Danny Byrn around

thats right i was with danny too

Was Shelton Waters the black guy?

i think danny came from greenock

no shelton was white

i cant remember where he came from

i was in the hockey team

So were a lot of LMS kids!

Do you remember when Colin Webster tripped and lot his front teeth on a hockey stick?

eh can you remember when we played in a tourniment in dundee out door

aye i do

i never got on with webster

in fact when i left lendrick i went looking for him

?

he lived in sterling i think

So why did you go looking for him?

can you remember when danny john reese and findi broke into the becks flat

Yes

well i was reading a book at the foot of the becks stairs and i got blamed for it to so one day before we broke up for holidays webster and derek walker and a few others draged all of us out of bed and got us in the games hall

they had us running round all night and gave us all a good kicking

Ah

webster never liked me as i was going out with Ana-Marie cummins

and he fancyed her

Sour grapes

do you remember the fag runs to muckart and to the garage in the village

anyway what are you doing down south

I remember them, although I've never smoked.

i did the beck use to make us pick up all the doubts

When I was asked to leave LMS I went to Uni in Edinburgh. After that I did a postgrad in London

so you were asked to leave

Then I lived for three years in Blackburn, Lancashire with lots of working trips abroad to Europe, the States, and Australia.

i suppose i was too lol

I was told to go.

I liked Australia and went to live in Sydney.

i was 16 and a half when i left

The biggest mistake I ever made was coming back.

well i never liked london

II've worked in London ever since.

i was in the air force for 6.5 yrs

It's warmer than up north.

My stepfather was an evil bastard., He was in the RAF.

yea only queers and steers live down there lol

You're probably right. What's a steer?

i've been about a bit myself

ah its a texan thing its a cow

We don't see a lot of Texan cows in London.

nae as they all have cjd

No, that's the British beef.

so what are you doing work wise/

I work for a French bank.

They forced us all to accept a 10% pay cut last week.

thats diffrent lol

thats the frogs for you

I'm off for two weeks holiday in New York as of the 4th January, and I'll quit while I'm away.

well watch out for the anthrax lol

I'll take my own!

and don't buy a one way ticket of anyone lol

i had plans to go over next year for six months but they were canceled

Why New York?

no ohio its not far

OK. Why Ohio?

some bird wanted me to come over to sort me out if you know what i mean

jaybee says:

but she is coming over here now on the 12th of jan

she wants my body

For medical science?

you have been down south to long ian

so are you in touch with anyone else

True...

I play Chess with Dave Simmons.

Hutch, Mark Blaike, Joe Atkinson keep in touch.

i think i remember you you were just a wee guy i think were you a junior

That's me.

lol you any bigger

I ws in dorm 11

were you the same age as joe

I think he was in dorm ten.

fuck you look like a thug lol

That's me.# I didn't say what I do for the French bank

dorm ten was that junior or middle floor i cant remember now

well no one will rob it with you there

10 was the first dorm on junior corridor

Add Joe to your MSN list

ncc1701d71@hotmail.com

He likes to chat.

when i was a junior i was in the 2 or 3 room i think

monkey and smithie and john lee were in my room

Are you in this photo?

brb on the phone

brb

sorry i was on the phone

em

i think i'm on the 4th row 4th last on the right next to the guy with the glasses

am sure thats me ian

are you still there or have you been booted

o

you are lol

John Mackenzie was also at LMS

Hi Ian

Hi

hello

Do you remember each other?

Yes was at LMS

I only breifly met jaybee

john nope sorry i cant remember you

as a puny junior

so was i at one time

you left the summer after I arrived

I was puny for a long while

so was i till i went to lms

we all grew a lot at lms

i was there from 74 to 78 i just worked it out the day

i had a great time when i was there

i arrived feb 78

e once lol

??

go ahead

was in contact with chris henderson yesterday from dammam in Saudi

How's he?

the name rings a bell likes

he arrived same time as me , within a few days of each other

have been friends since and now 37

i was talking with my mother today and its 24 yrs since i was there

yeah its frightening how long ago it all was

so the two of yous dont remember me much lol

you would remember peolpe like brian alison

yea i remember brian

or gordon scott

or peanut

or panjaz

and John started out as John Nelson. He only became John Mackenzie later.

these were all people ahead of me in the school

yeah just to confuse the issue

i meet him about 6 /7 moths after leaving i was playing with edinburgh cival service hockey team

i am instantly forgetable anyhow

Ian says:

Shame...

I remeber you and Chris very well.

i remember peanut he was a wee sweety wife

yeah i sometimes wonder what happend to these memorable character

and how life turned out

ian can you remember when bid dougie had a fight with hailsy

Nope

big

you hear a lot of stories of people who had more difficult lives than me after leaving lms

Ask Hutch about Hayles. He doesn't like him mutch.

it happend in the middle floor he got expelled after that

dougie melville?

ah Hay ho

!!!!

jaybee says:

no dougie the guy carol cullian lost her cheery too lol

dougie melville came from edinburgh

really?

yea

john been booted

ian can you remember findi

Not really. Did he have very red hair?

I always liked the nickname.

yes that was him was always shop lifting with reece

he got it from the fish finger advert

What's his connection with fish fingers?

findus lol

and they are red well orange

Ah

can you remember whe findi dannny eh john reese and a few others stole a car

hi john

which screen

a few of the teachers were nut cases some were real mad in the head lol

Carole said: The person i will never forget though is Dougie Stewart, reason: i lost my

virginity to him.....it was one of the most beautiful experiences in my life

and i still love him for it.  

Some were worse than mad.

jazz was a nutter davenport would go nuts and lawcen

HKD

that was the email i was looking for

davenport

Howard Keith Davenport

i knew it was a dougie but i thought melville??? NOT

Another Douggie

he used to bite his tongue when he was getting laid into you lol

yeah makes a change from too many johns

carol wnt out with dougie danny and brian in that order

Dougie Melville was the one who got Hay sacked I think

I thought that as well

hay was she the one with the calapper

Sex with the staff was not accepted, unless XX was involved.

the rumours were just too strong

She was

Rumours?

XX and ?????

She was from Paisley.

i remember now he shaged her in her room but she was on her periods lol

real

I met her once and her bloody dog tried to raoe my leg...

reall

yea blood all over the sheets miss ramaged was not pleased

i didn't know she had a dog

neither did i but she had big tits

fireplace and fire spring to mind

we all felt her up one night

am i too young for this conversation

in the games room

Ian says:

It's shocking what went on...

when I was a lad.

aye but thats what made lms great

next there will be nights out for a sixpence

or was that overpriced??

The pocket money wasn't much more than that when I started

oh aye there was the tuck shop now that i remember

as a smoker didn't see much of the tuck shop

mrs bissit did that

glad i gave that up

mr i mean

is she still alive?

yes

is he still alive

living in Muckhart

mr is dead

she is fuck sake how old is she now

he died of gangrene

the year that I left

gangerene??

he used to play the piano by ear

they gave me a Dux prize of ?50

most folk used there hands lol

the old jokes are the best

aye they are

when I phoned to ask for it they told me he'd just died, and so I couldn't really ask under the ircumstances and I really need the money

the sad thing is they ususally get elected

tony blair et al

do yous remember nicky kirwin

nope

Only by name

she loved me to bits

she always wanted me to brake her in lol

julie bristol

kizzy

Kizzy

thats a yes then

i think it was me who named her that

Who?

andy mcconnell

roots were on at the time

Andrew (Andy) McConnell came from Perth. He was friendly with Goggs.

did they two ever get it together

wher are they now??

what two

Gordon (Goggs) Scott had long, hippy hair like Ruaridh. He had a nice girl from Duns as his girlfriend for a while, but I have forgotten her name...Yvonne, perhaps. He passed Higher Economics.

He shared dorm 4 with Martin Adie and Killer.

kizzy and andy

i remember killer

the irony of that name is lost on most folk!!

he was in my dorm too

no it was because he was so quite

I know

he and smithie used to play war games all the time

i remeber colin smith

aye colin

he was a strange one

he used to wank all the time lol

i suppose he might say the same of me

lol

do you remeber monkey

maybe

oh and leesie

alistair lees

nut dont think so

thats the one

long blond hair

aye

probably as bald as a coot by now

Gouldie

yeah in our time was he not called monkey

or am i thinking of colin gibbard??

whos the one that stole the becks sherry and got drunk alistair

I thought that was Pus

Monkey Pus

Am I very confused?

Colin Gibbard was Frankie

new story to me tell me more

he went out with maggie

his favourit saying was this is true

this is true

gouldie was pus???

that was gouldie

Maybe. It was the smell perhaps. Was he the one with the really bad skin?

what about balfour

Exzema or something

well we all came down for breakfast and ali was still pissed

nobody said it had to make sense

Anyway add the site URL to your favourite search engine

The more the merrier

have either of you been back since it was taken over

yes

Very nice Christian types

Very clean cut

eager to please

staff noticed and told him to get out of the dinning hall so he did but was so pissed he staggered all the way down lol

They've removed all of the bird displays from room 3

or joe lynch's "it wisnae me"

It's now a big BIG TV presentation room

it was ali and big dougie now that i remember

The Beak cracked up laughing when Joe "it wisnae me" Lynch broke both legs on a Skiing trip

yea they stole drink from the becks flat

I had a brief visit back and they hvaen't half refurbished the place

you did know the beck was humping his sister inlaw as well

Fire doors everywhere

She's dead

Marie-Claire

lol

i visited just before it closed down and spoke to Dave Simmons

I play Chess with Dave

i losed my cheery to mauren

often

Kennedy?

in the woods

no

he told me that Gerry Michaluk (bad spelling) was trying to buy it out

i did visit in the early 80

beofre scripture union came on the scene

in fact 81

lol

So did Emmet Havelin, I think.

nobody owns www.lendrickmuir.co.uk

have any of you been in touch with any of the girls

who

beak really

the sly old devil

when i was there i still could find my name scribed everywhere lol

nutty prof more like

maureen kenedy

i thought emmet did as well

It costs money to get keep a sitename.

how did she die

Don't know

plug was her nickname

yep

i called her that

That was Maureen, not the Beak's sister-in-law!

maureen is dead?

how she die john do you know

nope i didn't even know she was dead

have i picked it up wrong is she dead

No, beak's sister in law is dead.

she is how

still don't know

mairi claued

yes the beck was into her

as well as his wife

were are you living john

i'm getting a big gap betweem msg then getting them all at once lol

The school is much darker than it used to be, They've put fire doors everywhere.

health and safety

Right, I'm off to do other things. it's been good chatting to you both.

Be lucky!

ok ian take care

yeah im off to have a shower and stuff

good to talk

were you stay now john

see ya

ok c ya