Eaglesvale High School from above

[FerrariSucks]

Using Google Earth, I found Vale and tried to name all the areas. Feel free to add to it.


http://www.thechiefbaboon.com/Forum/Uploads/FerrariSucks/2006-01-14_160939_Vale.jpg

[TiGeR]

Thanks dude- google clearly have too much money & time on their hands...oh well, i suppose i can call an airstrike now & put ppl out of their misery!....just KIDDING! Where's the railway lines? (i mean i KNOW where they are, just always seem to remember them being closer but obviously not THAT close...)

[FerrariSucks]

The tracks are just north of the picture, on the other side of the small road you can see.

[TiGeR]

Copy that- guess it just seemed closer in my minds eye...i should know better seeing as i used to coach St John's rugby & cricket up to 2004 & Vale was one of our annual fixtures...cricket was always competitive, but the last 10-15yrs St John's has been winning the rugger quite comfortably.

[FerrariSucks]

Yes I remember the tracks being closer, maybe they have been stolensmileys/smiley36.gif, melted down and sold too Mazda on the other side of Valesmileys/smiley36.gifsmileys/smiley36.gif

[TiGeR]

AOTHER Willowvale scandal! ...imagine that!? now no independent press to cover the story, no impartial judiciary to charge the guilty parties & a shyte govt that STILL wouldnt care & probably be involved in the thefts anyway ...


if it wasnt so tragic it would actually be hilarious

[Ants]

Vale's moved to where Westgate is - right? That screen shot is fairly old. It sure does bring back memories though. How dry and brown does it all look. Esp. for us people that live in NZ.... They stuff we used to get up to those days, crazy!

[TiGeR]

They havent moved yet...too expensive & in the current situation, schools are trying to stay OPEN, nevermind move location...

[Greenballs]

That is old... but I can vividly picture it all. Skills ox!!

[Poison]

That picture sure brings back a few memories..Na the tracks were a little further awayso they haven't been hucked..


Good find.

[FerrariSucks]

hucked lol, havnt heard that in a while

[Dantik]

shit you look at the school now and you have to wonder if it is still the same, or more like you wish it was the same

[Smiley]

The school hasn't changed too much. They've put up concrete tables and chairs where we used to hang out at break. I was last there in 2004 when my son went to school there for two terms. That was during the time when the school fees were being cut by the government and the Vale was in the papers AGAIN for racial discrimination. The ministry of Education said the school was too white and a minister visited the school and saw that it was in fact 80% black as stated, but still he had to ask the then head (Mrs Laing) where they were hiding all the white kids.

[RustyBear]

It was a great school in the beggining but slowly went down hill

[Poison]

I agree with you there Rusty..

[Aboriginal]

Yes I remember the tracks being closer, maybe they have been stolensmileys/smiley36.gif, melted down and sold too Mazda on the other side of Valesmileys/smiley36.gifsmileys/smiley36.gif

Ha ha. That brings back memories of playing cricket against the Marilliers/?Mutambanadzo brothers and the good old diesel trains chugging in the background making you feel like you really were in the sticks.

[Shayne]

What do you feel like? It was in the sticks.

[calmc]

It was the better school anyway!!:naughty:

[FerrariSucks]

the bestest school

[Poison]

I agree..

[Smiley]

I must tell you guys, I went to Lilfordia today to take my son back to school. It was like a high school reunion. Vale people have been busy making babies since they left school. Karen Morgan and Yvette Oosthuizen work there.

[Adam]

Thanks dude- google clearly have too much money & time on their hands...oh well, i suppose i can call an airstrike now & put ppl out of their misery!....just KIDDING! Where's the railway lines? (i mean i KNOW where they are, just always seem to remember them being closer but obviously not THAT close...)


Huston to Tiger you can drop the bomb:smiley20:

[biffon]

shed was more in the sticks than vale

[Poison]

At least the vale fields were quite level.. There weren't any little gomos.. hahaha

[biffon]

it wasnt the gomos that were the problem it was the ant holes that would swallow a hockey ball that were our biggest gripe!

[FerrariSucks]

One problem with Vale was its size. Its was a bitch to get around when you had to do cross country

[RustyBear]

I have to agree with you there ryan it was a hell of a bitch with that crappy little water jump

[FerrariSucks]

especially when those CNUTS put rocks in the dirty water to hurt people, if you had enough strength it was better to jump over it

[RustyBear]

Or just run around it

[Smiley]

Sad to let you guys know that Yvette Oosthuizen has recently past away. She was a diabetic and was pregnant and had some complications.

[Poison]

That is sad news...
I'm so sad to hear that..
My condolences go out to her family.

[FerrariSucks]

that is so sad, she was such a nice quiet girl at school, again my condolences go out to her family.