Listed below are a few names of pupils and teachers in the 1952 photograph remembered by Dell Hitchings 2009
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Remembering Teachers
By Bryan Green
I think Colin Forward’s arrival at Malmesbury Grammar School overlapped my last year, so the pupils hadn’t yet had time to quantify or characterise him. I don’t think he had yet aquired a nickname, no doubt he earned plenty later on. I do remember him showing me that drawing was not just lines, by producing a picture in seconds from a black graphite sploge; he also got me an ‘O’ level in Art.
On the downside, as a ball playing soccer winger, during my initiation into the other game, he took one look at my stocky physique and decided I was a born prop forward. The nearest I got to a ball that term was as it passed me on the way to the hooker.
The highlight however was a game at Home against Trowbridge, which Colin refereed with his usual energy and not without a little bias. I remember we won the game after 10 minutes extra time, all points gained by penalties (kicked by ‘Edder’ Martin). I happened to get my rugby colours also, and can discuss the craft and skill of a prop forward with any Gloster Man. On an intellectual level of course.
Malmesbury Grammar School Teachers and Pupils
Terry Waldron (Royal Navy) kindly sent in the 1962 and 1964 photographs of Malmesbury Grammar School Staff and Pupils along with the following list of names as far as he could remember. Sharon Nolan also lent me at a later date the same photographs to scan as well.
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Teachers
Kenneth Willmore – Head Pupils from Malmesbury
Susan Adye from Brinkworth
Pauline Henstridge from Swindon
Lynda Bartlett from Dauntsey
Adrian Barnes from Lea
Peter Alsop |
from Purton
Peter Belcher from Purton Stoke Richard Scott from Lyneham
Terence Brownat from Wootton Bassett
Trevor Burgess from Minety
Christopher Corn from Corston Andrew Eavis from Hullavington
Rita Gale from Leigh Mavis Giles from Corsham
Wendy Harris from Sherston Susan Jeanes from Little Somerford Howard Stoneham from Cricklade Michael Tabel from Luckington David John Waite |
Malmesbury District and County Secondary School at the bottom of Tetbury Hill was originally known as the Technical School which opened on 7th January 1903 and being renamed when Wiltshire County Council took over the responsibility for education and it later on became the Grammar School in 1954 when the new Bremilham Secondary Modern School opened in Poole Gastons Road.
Malmesbury District Secondary School – Courtesy of Gordon Brown