Grange hill

[Clare]

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"I only want to help you, Ro-land." She was nice, if annoying!

[80sChav]

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For anyone that loved the late 80s/early 90s era and the Series 12 Prom episode - I have been doing some research on the band "Hold The Frame" who sang in Episodes 19 and 20 and sang an amazihng song (that I never knew it's name of) until last night, just before the point in the Episode that Mauler and Ted andTrev all had their "Handbags at 10 Paces Fight" over who was the only 1 eligable to be Rambo and just before Ziggy and Georgina finaly dated - here is a link to the song in question

Sorry in advance if I should not have posted it, but I always knew that Hold The Frame was a fantastic group who was as a part of the Prom Episode as all the other cast and that they just seem so under-appreciated. Me - i always found them to have that 2Robert Palmer Feel", others have said they sound like David Bowie -but either way both are glowing testamounts to them I feel

Here is the link to Elysium
https://youtu.be/IQUuDX4JxUo

[George 1978]

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I don't remember much about Fabien but funnily enough she looked a bit like Miss Mooney the teacher from a few series before - Roland was speaking French all the time, probably to: A) Impress her; and B) Be prepared just in case he could move to France with her. Janet St Clair warned Roland: "you've got to start speaking English again, Roland - you can't speak French all the time".

I wonder whether the actress who played her was indeed French or the fact that she simply portrayed a French person quite well?

[80sChav]

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Rowland also fell in love with a French exchange student & tried to sneak on a ferry to follow her home.

Her name was Fabien, Richard and Roland mentioned as late as Series 10, e asked her if she would marry him later on

I think Fabien was even in a few Episodes alongside Janet - not as they "declared" each other, as rivals for Rolly's effections!

80sChav

[George 1978]

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I didn't mean she was actually of African origin, just that her accent was from West africa

I hadn't noticed her accent myself.

[Moonraker]

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I always think of that relationship a bit like how Phyllis Pearce used to follow Percy Sugden around in Coronation Street - very similar. To be fair, I am certain that she felt sorry for him, and surely that is something positive?

Janet St Clair was African? - I am not sure about that, but I am certain that the actress was born in this country and was of West Indian origin.

I didn't mean she was actually of African origin, just that her accent was from West africa

[Richard1978]

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Rowland also fell in love with a French exchange student & tried to sneak on a ferry to follow her home.

[Mulletino]

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She used to say "why do you hate me Rowlaaaaaand", which was the exact phrase we kept saying to the poor ******* when we saw him at a petrol station on the way home from The Ministry of Sound once in the mid 90s, he wasn't impressed.

[George 1978]

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The funniest scene was when the African girl use to keep following Roland. I use to always wonder if it was the case that she fancied him or had no one else to hang out with.

I always think of that relationship a bit like how Phyllis Pearce used to follow Percy Sugden around in Coronation Street - very similar. To be fair, I am certain that she felt sorry for him, and surely that is something positive?

Janet St Clair was African? - I am not sure about that, but I am certain that the actress was born in this country and was of West Indian origin.

[Moonraker]

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The actor who plays Pogo on the right looks as if he is very assertive these days - it is a truism that we all mellow in our latter years. Mind you, if he was 12 when he first appeared in GH, then he would be in his early 50s now.

The funniest scene was when the African girl use to keep following Roland. I use to always wonder if it was the case that she fancied him or had no one else to hang out with.

[George 1978]

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Yes, Cathy was the one who got the cane in series 4, didn't she? One thing that we thank McClusky for when she started in the series.

Was she the reason why Alan "Hargreaves" became Alan Humphries? Deed polls, in-deed (no pun intended)...

[duffer]

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Used to have crushes on Cathy Hargreaves and Penny Cartwright.

[George 1978]

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Roland on the left, pogo on the right:

The actor who plays Pogo on the right looks as if he is very assertive these days - it is a truism that we all mellow in our latter years. Mind you, if he was 12 when he first appeared in GH, then he would be in his early 50s now.

[80sChav]

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Five minutes into series 13 episode 10 (which was first seen on BBC 1 at approximately 5.15 pm on Tuesday 2nd February 1990). Justine and Chrissy have gone into production into screen printing t-shirts - Matthew Pearson has ordered a personalised one from the girls, but has a bit of difficulty with the payment, and Chrissy was up half of the previous night designing it...

How i would so love to be back in 1990 again George!! It seems like yesterday to me .... I was only 13 then, but on the other side of the coin after a family death and me knowing this person from 89/90 - it truiy seems a generation a-go of the 30 9nr on years) that it is presently

Saying this after it took Man Utd 26 years from 1967 to 1993 to win a Top Flight Title to compare 1990 to 29 years before-hand of 29 years as I am now (going back from 1990 to 1961) seems un-imaginable when my Mum used to tell me about all the old 60s TV Progs and compare 1961 to 1990 with 1990 to 2019 - they are vastly different I feel (as at least the Internet had mummerings in it's infancy in 1992), but vwhat about Grange Hill being born in 1978 and 11 years on until 1989 and Mr Bronson and his crusade against Danny spanning 1986 to 1989 and ant Jones in 1986), then 1986 was only 8 years off 1978 and I can not imagine how characters like Starling, Llwewyn and keating would have thought of Grange Hill Circa late 80s heading into the 1990s. That just shows how the afore 3 mentioned Teachers ruled with an Iron Rod and would not entertain even a fraction of a yard that Bronson very occasionaly gave Danny

Par Mr Robson from the Ziggy/Tegs and Matthew era right up to Maddie, Martin and later Baz and Karen after the move and lesser so Togger and Tanya - there was only old "Bullet Baxter" who saw such radical changes amongst how society changed in forms of school discipline etc (and even he only joined in 79 not 78)

Or to put it another way GH had no Head of PE between Baxter leaving in the last Episode of Series 9 (though we never knew he had left - until S10 pisode 1, to run a sports Centre and I can imagine Phil and the Team used the interlude from Series 9 to 11 to look for Baxter's replacement to go above the horrid Mrs Regan who could never have made "Head Of PE" ..... or then again was this so as had Mr Scott's character been written with the intentions of a Second Series and Robson as E3's replacement Form Tutor/Teacher just drafted in at short notice - which then lead to the amazing un-rivled statstic of Ziggy 's Form (not Helen and Georina's or at least until Robbie and Georgina joined 6th Form together) having 4 consecutve different Form Teachers from 1985 onwards - starting with the one SeasonMiss washington in 85, then Mr King who had to resign over his dalliancing with Fay (in 86) and then Scott and Robson in 1987 and 1988 to 1989 respectivley!

80sChav

[80sChav]

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They look older than now than some of the teachers did back then.

Ha ha - that is true indeed George yeah, but the guy who played Pogo allmost looks like he could be a Teacher (and on the other side of the coin appears to have aged very well) I think to be fair