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Was there mid to late 70,s absolutely hated every minute of that time . The memory’s of this place will haut me till the day I die …

Wow I'd love to have my daughter going here, do they open these schools to American kids? Hell I would've loved to have gone here as a child. I wonder if they were taking advantage of the schools beautiful location and proximity to wonderful field trip opportunities and sport. The school needed more refined uniforms and dressing code. The more elite you make something look the more people will want it. You have to spend money to make it and the school needed everything they weren't doing. Putting a lot into athletics possibly, recruiting some shining athletes to get interest in the school from a sporting aspect could've helped. Gosh they needed some sort of interest point other than desperation. Could they have made it available to people who never would've perceived this as an affordable option possibly the down payment and then easier to handle payments. Did they offer some sort of multi child household discount? The school looked like an unorganized mess to be honest but it had so much going for it.

I was there for 4 years in the 70s and it was even known to be a "dump" by the pupils then, that's what we called it. Full of thickies who could not get a place elsewhere. Terrible academic standards. Unbelievable bullying culture. Not remotely surprising it went down the tubes, sorry

I love this sort of stuff

I played in the musical “Oh what a lovely war” that Rannoch school put on in the late 80s. The head of music was a great guy, Andrew Houston if I recall correctly. Would love to know what he’s up to nowadays.

That marketing director going to Disneyland to "learn" new strategies was hysterical. What a waste of time and money... No wonder this school went bankrupt.

The joke's way older than Open All Hours, it's in fact over 2000 years old. This is the Ship Of Theseus paradox, which was identified in Ancient Greek times. Their version was about a ship: If you replaced every single piece of a ship, is it still the same ship? And what if you took all the replaced pieces and reassembled them, could they then both be the original ship?

Knew a guy who went there. Bullying was horrific.

Why are they saying Bill Clinton is a woman? I don't understand why he has a strong English accent either. This show is wack.

Same myne do lol

Helen was useless.

The richard branson part got me😅😅😅😅

I had a blue flame exhaust on my Ti. Don’t mean to sound rude but it sounded much better than this.

The schools seems lovely but this entire documentary seems a bit bizarre.

Yeah John Sullivan often wrote for Ronnie barker on many things including the 2 Ronnies. So they’re you have it. Hehehe know ya history!

I am just wondering, if Ronnie Barker is "Trigger's" cousin ?. "Trigger's" cousin, Ronnie had a strange taste in women, but they were men.

John Sullivan always brought up/copied the old used jokes or acts in most of his shows particularly OFAH. Fair play to him, you never thought that they were used!

recomended gang

Attended Rannoch, early eighties. From home in one of the largest cities in West Africa to one of the most remote boarding schools in the UK. But there, life finally clicked. Went from being an academic underachiever to straight A’s at O’ levels and Highers. Messed up my A levels a bit, but I only needed C’s for a University place to read Civil Engineering. Have great memories of all the extra-curricular activities. Summer and winter sports, countless hours sailing on Loch Rannoch and even more countless weekends hiking the surrounding hills in all kinds of weather. And then there were the crazy school traditions - 40 miler, 60 miler, Buachaille dash, Schiehallion Hill race etc. I recognise that everyone has different memories of school. I feel hugely privileged to have been able to spend some of my formative years in such a challenging and yet engaging place. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. Gives me goose pimples just thinking about it. Shame it didn’t appeal to enough people and had to close.

Is it in the Bible", all you crazies???

That marketing lady hasn’t got a clue. Went to Disneyland and then went abroad when she should have been getting new pupils through the door!

Is this a spoof?

I can’t help feeling the lawyer, erm I mean marketing officer, is targeting the wrong market. It’s not the kids that have the money Helen 😂

Triger said it with such belief, sincerity and genuine pride.

WHAT UN THE HARRY POTTER IS THIS PALACE.jeez my school is built of foam

HOW DO THEY NOT NOTICE WHEN YOU ATTACK

Ahhh I remember this exhaust well. I bought it off you 😁. I really miss these cars. A proper wolf in sheep's clothing.

UH WTF DID I JUST WATCH THIS IS GOOD

Actually Aristotle invented the joke in the Classical Period of Ancient Greece

IS THIS HOGWARTS FOR “muggles”

I don't understand how these teachers and governors think that the banks have a duty to take a chance on them and maybe lose money. There are plenty of people who can't get an account or an overdraft these days because of their straitened circumstances. Why should a school for wealthy, middle class parents be any different? Maybe they should cut their cloth according to their means and drop some of those "healthy outdoor activities". After all the state schools mostly can't afford to offer them. It's times like this that the private school sector is revealed for what it really is - a profit making business.

The school closed in 2002 due to decline in enrolment numbers, location and remoteness :(

2:04 "Popular with parents of children with a more rambunctious nature". A rather telling comment.

this new the office season looks great

The bit with the miniature railway can't be REAL

Damn reddit

How do you have ads on a documentary you didn't make?

Reddit takes me to weirdly interesting places.

Came from reddit

My late ex husband went there. He hated it. Imagine, age 7 being packed off and then to be badly bullied. His only escape was to run in the wilds. The damage done never really left him.

I was interned there in the 1970s'. Yes, there was bullying but that was the norm in boarding schools of that decade. This film gave me the impression that the school was being run by amateurs, the marketing director and the bursar in particular. No wonder it went belly up!

Brutal bullying culture the place created back in the 80s, I hated every day ,as did many others. It shutting down has helped give us some sort of closure.

I love that school! However, having seen how the staff treat each other, and the way they seem to be back stabbing and tripping each other up, I would not want to send a child there for an education. But the dream of Hogwarts seems real, lol!

Very sorry for everyone concerned (except the bloody bank). It would have been interesting to learn more about how the school got into the situation.

Were you there when it was filmed?:)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus the first outing of the story

Best TH-cam video of all time!

No Dave look after your broom

As stated Trigger's version was still b..b...by far the b..b..best 😉 argh thank you a little OAH tribute, still though, copied it may be but better by far it is (Yoda...argh thank you)😋

Open all hours is so funny, never fails to make me laugh. Way before my time by still up to date in humour etc