• Home
  • About
    • Disclaimer
  • Vale Gill Griffith
  • Reunion
    • Other Attendees
  • Can you help?
  • History
    • Malvern Link 1909-1922 >
      • Memories of Malvern
    • Aymestrey Court 1922-1947 >
      • World War II
      • 1920s photos
      • 1930s photos
    • The Asterley Years 1948-1965
    • The Griffith Years 1966-1998
    • Aymestrey Prospectus >
      • 1930s Wardrobe List
  • Events
    • The 50th Anniversary
    • The 80th Party
    • Carols >
      • Carols in the 1980s
    • Bust Up >
      • Bust Up 1929
      • Memories of Bust Up 1950s & 1960s
      • The Bust Up Song
  • People
    • The Asterley family >
      • M. N. Asterley ('Sir')
      • Tief (Edith Mary Coates)
      • Aunt Ness (A.H. Coates)
      • D.A.N. Asterley
      • Jean Asterley (Bates)
    • The Mildmays
    • The Griffith family >
      • D.H. Griffith
      • G.S. Griffith
    • Staff >
      • Staff A-D
      • Staff E-O
      • Staff P-Z
      • Music Teachers
    • Friends of the School
  • Scouting & Camp
    • Camp Timeline >
      • A Substitute for Scouting
    • Scout Camp Standing Orders
    • Early 1940s Camps
    • Camp at Llanfechan
    • Memories of Camp
    • 1961 Camp
    • 1982 Camp
    • Scout Tests
    • Bledffa Campsites
    • Cefn Llys Campsites
    • Llanfechan Campsite
    • Water-break-its-neck Campsite
    • Wolf Cubs
  • Buildings
    • Malvern
    • Crown East Court

  Aymestrey School, Worcester

The Aymestrey School Bust Up Song

The first Aymestrey School Bust Up song was written in 1925 for the occasion by the lady of Crown East Cottage (Aunt Ness) and was described as a 'topical song'.  That year it was sung by Dan, and in 1926 it was given with great point by Mr Sutton.

By 1931 it had become a tradition. 

Theo Christophers (1940-1945)
DANA always wrote a song & sang it to us highlighting some recent school happenings.  The verses of the song were sung by DANA alone & were each followed by a Chorus sung FORTISSIMO by the whole School. 

One year a boy called Maxwell (whose father was a professional soldier) had distinguished himself earlier in the term by singing fortissimo the song "The British Grenadiers".  There was also a School Craze at that time for pretending to be able to drive cars ... we used to run about in playtimes etc pretending to drive non existent cars and shouting 'Choke' if we wished to 'accelerate' and pass another pretend 'motorist'. 

DANA incorporated these doings into part of the song:
When Major Maxwell in later years
Commands the British Grenadiers,
The battlefield, through dust & smoke
Will echo to the War Cry 'Choke'.
CHORUS    Here's to good old Aymestrey
                    Here's to good old Aymestrey
                    Here's to good old Aymestrey - to good old Aymestrey School!

Iain Clark (1958-1963)
I remember two lines about a contemporary who was over enthusiastic in a stone fight and heavily punished for the damage:

                When David missed Goliath's head
                He hit the Colonel's car instead!
This website and its content is copyright © Pippa Griffith 2011-2018 All rights reserved.