BD's School Days

By David E. Gates

David E. Gates recounts his time at City of Portsmouth Boys School and the adventures, or misadventures perhaps would be a better description, whilst he attended the famed institution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David E. Gates
• Release date: Mar 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201674557

David E. Gates

David E. Gates has published several books and short-stories. His first book, Access Denied, is a true story.  A deeply personal and heart-wrenching account of becoming a father and having to fight the mother and Family Courts to see his daughter and also battles against the incompetence and lies of the Child Support Agency who seem hell-bent on ruining him, emotionally and financially.. It has garnered 100% positive reviews. The Roots of Evil, his first horror novel, is a graphic, violent, intense and gore-laden horror story. His second fictional novel, The Wretched, is an original horror story set in and around Portsmouth. David has made a documentary film about the battlefield memorials in Ypres, Belgium called Ypres – The Battlefield Tours and previously wrote film reviews for Starburst and Samhain magazines and interviewed the likes of Clive Barker, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert and many others. He has also written many short stories and poems, a full-length motion picture screenplay, the screenplay to a short film and in his spare time hosts a rock radio show. Also by David E. Gates: Access Denied The Roots of Evil The Wretched Omonolidee First Words Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman The Projectionist A Planned Demise The Ghost of Clothes Fixing the Faker The Christmas Carol Omonolidee - Morgado, Portugal, 2018. Two Sides of Vegas

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Books

Access Denied 

The Roots of Evil 

Omonolidee 

First Words 

The Wretched 

Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman

The Deeper Roots of Evil

BD’s Big Diet Book

UFO

Short Stories

The Ghost of Clothes 

The Christmas Carol 

A Planned Demise 

Omonolidee – Two Sides of Vegas 

Omonolidee – Morgado, Portugal, 2018 

Fixing the Faker 

End Request

Motorcycle Man

The Shitty Chalet

He Came Back

Screenplays

The Projectionist

Films

Ypres – The Battlefields Tour 

Coming Soon

The Climbing Frame

Cinema

Mind Blood

Dedication

For Dean, without whom I wouldn't have these memories.

Lower School

Fatty Burrows we called him. He wasn’t just fat though. He was fucking huge. When looked at from the side, he looked like a weeble with legs. 

He was the Deputy Headmaster and taught Technical Drawing to the secondary school pupils of the City of Portsmouth Boys School. This was in the lower school – the educational institution being split across two locations, an upper and lower school, a few blocks apart in Hilsea. I don’t recall learning that much from his class. But the memories I have from attending them, and other classes and events at school, are brilliant.

Like when a student would call Burrows over to ask him something, accidentally knocking his pencil on the floor, which Burrows would then bend over to retrieve. The pupils behind him would simulate being in a wind tunnel as his fulsome arse came into view, holding their ties behind their necks to exacerbate the imaginary effect of a prolonged gust. 

He fell over once. In the corridor. Fell over onto his massive belly. And simply couldn’t get up. He couldn’t even roll over onto his back to enable himself to sit. Had to be helped up by two, maybe three, students. Funny as fuck. 

Burrows came