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Prefects - Early 1950s added Feb
2005
I've just noticed the photo of Prefects early 50s, added in Feb, and
reckon that it's probably 1949/50 and I think the identification tab is
wrong, not solely because it identifies 5 prefects on the front row when
there are actually 6, but I reckon the back row first left is Dennis
Grimsley and fourth left is Reg Hardwick. Both returned to teach at BGS
around 1955/56. Dennis is featured on the Staff 1958 photograph....
Les Simpson March 2005 |
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As Prefects 1956-57
I have
been
looking at the website
with some
enjoyment.
It
shows the prefects of
year 1956-57.
They
are,
left to
right as
viewed:-
Back
row: BG Bradbury, BC
Copestake, JC Underhill,
MA
Kersey,
A Whitaker
(one t), BB Rees, AK
Smith,
TA
Bentley, WJ
Hunt, DW Mountford.
Front
row: AR
Perry, SA Neal,
R
George, RE Gadsby, PR
Bailey, PR
Taylor, PB
Smith
I
was at the
Grammar
School
from 1949 - 1957.
I
live
near Glastonbury
in Somerset to
where
I
moved
in 1982,
and
am
now
living
in
retirement.
Barrie
Rees
(I
was
known
as Ben at
school)
The photo of prefects is from the school year 1956/57. It is in the Hall at
Bond Street and if you notice, the school badge is the one for the 'New
School'. Arrangements had been made for the new uniform to be issued in 1956
in readiness for the move to Mill Hill Lane which was to be effected in
September 1956. However as we all know, the gales in February '56 removed
the roof and a bit more of the almost finished school, meaning that the move
was postponed for twelve months. It was then left to the parents to decide
whether to buy the new uniform (badge and cap in most cases) or keep with
the old one for that year. Seven of the prefects shown are on
the class photo of 2A in 1952 (on the website at Students/1951) and one
other was in 2A at that time but obviously absent on the day. Those I recall
are :-
Back row: Brian Bradbury, Bert Copestake, Jonathan
Underhill, Maurice Kershaw, Alan Whittaker, ? Rees(?), ? Smith(?), Terry
Bentley, John Hunt, ? Mountford(?).
Front row: Roy Perry, Alan Neal, Bob George, Robin Gadsby, ?
Bailey, Pete Taylor, Pete Smith.
(From Les Simpson)
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Form IIIb Dated March 1952.
Back Row: Wilson (1) - Wilson (2) - Giles - Cotten - Shilton - Brannan -
Starkey - Joyce - Brewin - (?)
Centre: Manlove - Poulteney - (?) - Thornywell - Wilson (3) - Bridges
- Panter - Langstone - (?) - Baines
Front: Biddles - MacBride - Corner - Johnson - Goodhead - (?) - Lewis
- Coulson - Owen - Foreman - Smith D. |
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As 4A
Names with the help of Tony Prevett
and John Harvey
Back Row: David Woolley, Peter Bailey, John A
Richardson, Brian R Hopkinson, Nick Goult, A. E. (Tony) Prevett, David E
Hopkinson, AP Graham Brown, ‘Pongo’ Hill, Peter A Taylor, Hodgkinson,
Michael B D Cooke
Centre Row: A (Tony) Grief, Ken Whiteland, John Roberts, Mick Baker,
Barry Smith, ? Day, Anthony Pigott, Mick Burkitt, Peter? Ford, David
Sellars.
Front row: Colin D Norris (Nogger), Barry A. Bourne, Tony Mortimer,
Dennis Bishop, Robert Johnson, Jake Hammond, John A Harvey, Michael Bewick,
Michael Willshaw, Geoff Boyce, Norman Harvey Graham Brown
a.graham.brown@ntlworld.com - |
I chanced upon a website of my old school and there was one
of those long elongated photographs which contained the whole of the school, it
was the Coronation Year of 1953. I had left that school the year previously (my
parents moved home) so obviously I did not appear in it, but I was intrigued to
find the faces of those whom I must have known. I slowly zoomed into the
picture, scrolling slowly left and right, up and down. I was being
drawn hypnotically into the uniformed ranks of youth, rubbing shoulders with my
past. Trance-like, I looked into the eyes of these fresh young faces
moving slowly accross the screen, echoing names wafted down the years and were
mentally noted in the dusty register of my mind. Was it really all those years
ago? From Ian Giles
ian@william-giles.freeserve.co.uk See also Ian's piece on "Life
in the late 1940s/Early 50s"
The Cecil Brown Archive: This is just to
make contact. I was at the BGS from 1949 to 1952, but my Dad - Cecil Brown -
known as Chas - taught there from 1922? till 1960. I have various photos
including the rolls of the whole school, which I haven’t looked at for ages.
I’ll make some sort of list and send it. I can scan photos and mail them fairly
easily. Please advise on format etc. I guess the site is mainly about people who
are still alive, but someone may be interested in more historical stuff? This is
what I’ve found so far: Rather creased roll from 1920 - low resolution, Rolls
from 1930 (approx), Roll from 1938/9 (my estimate), High School roll from
1921 (which has 6 of my aunts on it - allegedly) Photo from mid 30’s ? 3 staff
and 40 boys, Staff 1952 , ??? looks like 6th form 1920? 3 staff and 6
boys, I suspect one is Dr. NP Allen, DSc FRS, 6th form 1956? Staff
1958, Shot of the library – 1952, ? form photo mid 50’s - don’t know why we have
this, Form 4A 1952 - with Jake Hammond. I remember seeing others from the days
when flash photography was really FLASH and half the class looked like they had
just seen a ghost, but I don’t seem to have these now. From Graham Brown
a.graham.brown@ntlworld.com
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