In this week’s column, Fakenham writer Jim Harding discusses how failing the eleven-plus saw him flourish in other ways and follow his dream of travelling … The grammar school I attended in Woking was quite by chance. I failed the eleven-plus which meant I didn’t qualify so was sent to the secondary modern much closer to home. As the fourth child of academically clever sisters and a brother I suppose in some respects this was seen as a bit of a failure. But as things turned out it did me a favour. My parents may have been secretly pleased as well, the cost of grammar uniforms being considerabl…