David Wood-Robinson – Welcome To The Old Cottonians Association of India https://oldcottoniansassociation.com Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:50:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://oldcottoniansassociation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Old-Cottonians-Association-LOGO-N-150x150.webp David Wood-Robinson – Welcome To The Old Cottonians Association of India https://oldcottoniansassociation.com 32 32 Birthday greetings: David Wood-Robinson [Ibbetson 1940-44]! https://oldcottoniansassociation.com/2022/09/29/birthday-greetings-david-wood-robinson-ibbetson-1940-44/ https://oldcottoniansassociation.com/2022/09/29/birthday-greetings-david-wood-robinson-ibbetson-1940-44/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2022 02:35:53 +0000 https://jyu.qhs.mybluehost.me/2022/09/29/birthday-greetings-david-wood-robinson-ibbetson-1940-44/ Our very special Old Cottonian Mr. David Wood-Robinson is 94 years young today the 29th September 2022. We wish him many many happy returns and all best wishes for a super-duper day today and many more to come.

đŸ„‚ Happy birthday!

Here is David’s email reply to the greetings message:

]]> https://oldcottoniansassociation.com/2022/09/29/birthday-greetings-david-wood-robinson-ibbetson-1940-44/feed/ 3 MY TIME AT BCS – David Wood-Robinson 1940/4 https://oldcottoniansassociation.com/2020/06/16/my-time-at-bcs-david-wood-robinson-1940-4/ Tue, 16 Jun 2020 02:30:50 +0000 https://jyu.qhs.mybluehost.me/2020/06/16/my-time-at-bcs-david-wood-robinson-1940-4/ I and my brother Mark were among the batch of boys from England who came out to India after the fall of France in WW2 and spent most of the war years at BCS. My other younger brother Colin started at the prep school and later moved up to BCS. I started in the Headmaster’s House and later moved to Aicheson (?) House near the school gate but I do not remember which school house I was in.. I have lots of wonderful memories, most of them naughty, like climbing over the barbed wire fence to raid bhuttas from the fields below the school. We roasted them in the school boiler. We made strings for our kites by crushing bottles in tin cans and gluing the powder onto the kite strings with flour paste so that they would cut the strings of other kites.. We also made catapults from tyre rubber and tried to shoot flying “sqiggies”, never successively! But I was also given a love for classical music by seeing Disney’s “Fantasia” at the cinema near the Mall and got some good Cambridge School Certificate results which later enabled me to become a Naval Architect but I became a Christian at Glasgow university and later spent many years in Japan trying to tell the folk there about God’s love.

David Wood-Robinson 1940/4
]]> Mark Wood-Robinson / passed on https://oldcottoniansassociation.com/2017/03/17/mark-wood-robinson-passed-on/ https://oldcottoniansassociation.com/2017/03/17/mark-wood-robinson-passed-on/#comments Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:43:19 +0000 https://jyu.qhs.mybluehost.me/2017/03/17/mark-wood-robinson-passed-on/ Dear Old Cottonians
We’ve had a spate of losses recently, and just got the news of yet another Old Cottonian passing away this 14th. Here is a message from David Wood-Robinson about his brother Mark.
Our condolences to the family.
My brother Mark Wood-Robinson who was at BCS from 1940 to 1945 has just died (March 14) at the age of 86. He was Lighting Consultant for South West Electricity Board for about 30 years and designed the lighting, both interior and floodlighting, for a great many well known buildings, including several cathedrals, in the SW of England. He was an active Christian in a Bristol church and a runner for charity.
David Wood-Robinson [BCS same dates].
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