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This site began when I found a run of The Centaur – the magazine of Henry Mellish Grammar School on eBay. They were scanned and are now available to  view and download on the page tabbed above.

If you have copies of issues not yet in the list on the Downloads page that you would be willing to lend me to scan or have scans (as pdf files) to share please contact me using the form below. Similarly please contact me if you have any other HMGS memorabilia or photographs.

Only the period when the Henry Mellish existed first as the Henry Mellish School (1929-1946) then as the Henry Mellish Grammar School (1946 until the last of those admitted worked their way through the system) but not, in the interests of keeping the site of manageable size, the latter period of its existence as an entirely local, City of Nottingham, comprehensive school.

School photographs by Panora can also be downloaded or viewed on YouTube.

Copies of The Centaur and other material have been received from the following:

Richard Bullock, Garry Humphrey, Mrs Malcolm Jackson; Louise Walton; Roger Langham; Robert Dawson, Sir Neil Cossons, Simon Bailey; Terry Glover; Andrew Turner, David Hallam; Tom Elliott; Annette Furuyama, Andrew Robinson, David Chambers, Tony Seaton; David Mundy; Martyn Shaw, Martin Phillips, Barrie Shelton, Nick Clifford, G. Norman Fearn, Judy Fearn, Steve Brook, Andrew Lebeter, Ray Hickling, Richard Field, Paul Nicoll, Malcolm Lindley, Lady Clare Howes DL

News of additional material is posted on a separate page.

As well as being a source of material for those of us who were there at some time, I am told that the site provides an insight into what life was like at a boys’ grammar school and, until the 1946 Education Act, at its earlier existence as a fee-paying (with scholarships) secondary school.

Malcolm Peaker [1954-62]

UPDATED JUNE 2026