Email 2003

Richard Harvey

From: Richard Harvey

Date: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:14 pm

Subject: LAMB & Flag etc

Dear Nick,

Thanks for your e mail.

I don't go to London much nowadays, so must decline your kind invitation to meet perhaps some OCs of my advanced age.

Dare I enquire whether you were the boy whose enterprising and ingenious exploit is recorded on pp.106 et seq. in David Spinney's School History? If so, I take off my cap in admiration. I showed the pages to a local friend who was at Bryanston contemporaneously with me at Clayesmore, and he was greatly tickled and is passing it round to other OBs.

My own exploit, which pales in comparison with Z's, was, with two other boys who shall be nameless, to go to the camera club darkroom, hang a notice on the door, reading " development in progress DO NOT ENTER", tap ( via capacitor)into the school telephone line which ran across the ceiling, and listen hopefully, for short periods, before knocks on the door portended another boy with film to develop. We never heard anything compromising, but were able from overhearing the Sister talking to the doctor in Blandford, to tell the outside world how a seriously sick in the Sanatorium was faring.

This was definitely a one off. I never made MI5 or hacked into No 10.

Happy New Year,

Richard Harvey (34 - 39)