The "49ers"

Rennie "down under"  December 2009 Polecat reunion

The 49ers are a group of OBs who have been collaborating to collect names for the 1949 photograph. They are also turning their attention to the 1947 and 1952 photographs.
Amongst their members are Brian Ransley, David Wiltshire, Rennie Vickers, Terry Williams, Brian Veale, Brian Bignell, Ron Wynands, Peter Rogers, Geoff Sherlock, Donald Sainsbury & Geoff Pask.. Click the links on their names will take you to some notes they have contributed for themselves.
Also co-opted to the cabal in recognition of his extraordinary prenatal knowledge of the subject is John Saunders, noted elsewhere for his sterling contributions to the RGS.

You can read some notes that some of the 49ers have submitted themselves describing their acheivements and present situations.

Some of the 49ers still living in the High Wycombe area recently got together at "The Polecat" in Prestwood for a few drinks and a lot of chat. They plan to hold a further get-together in December and invite wouldbe attenders to get in touch with Rennie

Pictured below are Rennie Vickers, Brian Bignell, Brian Ransley (taken on 6th Sept 2008).

Pictured below are "The Polecats", from L - R, Terry Williams, Donald Sainsbury, Rennie Vickers, David Wiltshire, and Ron Wynands.

More recently, Wednesday 2nd December 2009, they all met up again at The Polecat.

David Wiltshire took the photo below and added these words:-

"Several of those who have put much of their remaining brainpower to work on identifying the names of those on the 1949 school photograph met up again at "The Polecat" for lunch. Rather than lead to further head banging over who is who these are their names:- Seated (clockwise from left foreground) Ron Wynands, Tony Barr, Rennie Vickers, Standing David Wiltshire, Then Seated, Terry Williams, Brian Bignell, John Read, Donald Sainsbury."

Rennie "down under" 22jan2010

Brian Ransley wrote on 22jan2010:-
Met Rennie & Pat Vickers yesterday evening and we ended up at our golf club for dinner.
The arrival of the Vickers brought us a little and much welcome rain, but it didn't last long.I don't normally wear longs in January, but I didn't have a pair of clean presentable shorts handy to wear for dinner.
No cordylines in the photo unfortunately. I promise to do better next time!
They've now boarded their cruise ship and are en route to Tauranga then all ports south and west to Sydney.

Tony comments: The Cordylines Brian refers to are somtimes called Australian Cabbage Palms but are more properly described by their scientific name of "Torbay Palms"

To which Brian replies: "Australian Cabbage Palms, indeed!!!!!    Tsk, tsk. The australis as in Cordyline australis means southern, as any of ERT's Latin scholars would tell you the good people of Torbay. 
Crikey, they pinched Clarrie Grimmett, Pharlap  and Pavlova,  and now you're giving them another one of our icons!"

Sorry about that Brian, please accept this icon as a peace offering