School desk did not fly too well!

YOUR article on the demolition of Unity College (August 11) brought back some happy (rose-tinted no doubt) memories of my schooldays in the late 60s and early 70s at Trinity High School, later changed to Trinity Grammar School.
Looking back, it was a pretty good education. Compulsory caps for boys in years one and two, Latin, teachers in academic gowns, with nicknames like Buzzer, Gunner, Tiger, Pip, Egg, Crutch and Nobby.
Apart from the formal corporal punishment, there was some pretty swift justice meted out by some teachers ... definitely not Human Rights Act compatible! The tower was ideal for budding aircraft designers to launch their paper creations while the teachers' backs were turned. I seem to remember hearing that there was an unsuccessful flight of a school desk from the top floor. The aerodynamics were not ideal, causing an extremely steep glide path and resulting in a very heavy landing, softened only slightly by a teacher's Triumph 1300 car. It looks like such possibilities are being designed out of the new building.
Mr D A Thacker,
East Hunsbury, Northampton.