From Garry Humphreys, more information:

HURST, John Garnet. 1959-? (after 1965). b 3 July 1930, Nottingham; d 2 November 1986. Lived at West Bridgford. Pilot Officer RAF when married in 1954 to Valerie Margaret Kent.  Latin. “Labienus”. The late Robert (R. J.) Newton (1957-64) composed the following to the tune of The British Grenadiers:

          Some talk of Nigel Press,
And some of Freddie White,
Of Spolton and Jack Lewis,
And perhaps they’re right.
But of all the School’s great masters,
There’s one who’s always first:
With a bang and a crash and a scream and a shout,
His name is Mr Hurst!

As a result of a chance encounter between the son of Ray Hickling and the daughter of Pete Severn, we heard that he had died. Morever, his daughter had no photographs of Pete when young and Ray was able to point her to this site where he appears on the Panoras as well as one photograph taken in 1961. The following has been added to the Obits page..

SEVERN, Peter John. 1954-1961. b 1942 Kimberley. RAF 1961(as Cadet Pilot)-1977. Flew Canberras and Vulcans. BA (Open University), MBIM. Taught Management at Trevenson House, Redruth (part of Cornwall College). RAFVR (Photographic Interpretation Branch) retiring as Squadron Leader 1998. d 2014. Buried at Stoke Gabriel, South Devon.

Ray Hickling sent me this photograph which I eventually realised I had taken.

From left: Ray Hickling, Phil Mayfield, John Graham, Chris Spencer, Dick Brown, J Burton, Dave Fenn, Chris Soar, John Newton, Trevor Hursthouse, M.R. Hutchinson?, Ivan Bexon, Ian Rennie, Brent Reddish, Mick Goodall. Photo: Malcolm Peaker.
According to the Derby papers the Exhibition opened Monday 23 June at the Rolls-Royce Welfare and Sprts Ground, Sinfin. The exhibition was in a large marquee which can be seen on the back right.

Can be seen on the PHOTOGRAPHS page.

Garry Humphreys has found these two titles in a Bibliography of Nottinghamshire. Since they are listed in the compilation copies must exist somewhere, possibly in the County Archives. Does anybody know the location of either?

[Henry Mellish Grammar School, Nottingham]. 1939-47: A Record of the Activities of the Boys of the Henry Mellish Grammar School. [Nottingham, 1948]. 40 p.
Henry Mellish Grammar School (Famous Nottinghamshire Schools, 8), Nottinghamshire Observer, 7, 51 (1960), [52]-53, ill.

The cast and stage crew – photograph from David (Chas) Chambers.

The identified, possibly identified and unidentified so far are:

Cast from left to right: Phil Toyne, I Bexon, D Clarke, n/k, Geoff Walker, Peter Storey, Pat Richards, n/k, John Hole, K Burrows, Dave Coxon, J Shaw. Stage crew middle row: Michael A Carson, Chris B. Spencer, T Briggs, J Burton, Dave (DK) Parker, n/k, Andy Rushforth. Stage crew front row: W K Whitehead, Dick Brown, Colin Love, David (Chas) Chambers, n/k, possibly John Glasby?, Andy Martin, Keith Crouch plus half an unknown.

The above is now on the PLAYS page below the programme.

Please supply any updates on identification.

Martin Butler – at HMGS from ca 1973, from Beeston (1961-2020.

Garth Norman – full obituary from Church Times can be downloaded thanks to Garry Humphtreys.

See here for the planned house building on the school site.

Information from the Facebook Group, Henry Mellish Memories, spotted by Andrew Turner

An obituary for the Ven. Garth Norman who died on 17 November is now on the OBITS page. Garry Humphreys spotted the announcement in the Church Times. There are photographs of Garth at the closing ceremony of the school on the page, THE END.

NORMAN, Garth. 1950-1958. B.A., Dip.Th., M.A. (Durham), M.Ed. (East Anglia), P.G.C.E. (Cambridge). Ordained 1964. Assistant Curate of Trunch with Swafield (1966-71); Team Rector in the Trunch Team Ministry (1971-83); Rural Dean of Repps (1975-83); Assistant Curate of West Wycombe with Bledlow Ridge, Bradenham and Radnage (1983-87); Principal of the Chiltern Christian Training Course (1983-87); Rochester Diocesan Director of Training (1988-94); Hon. Canon of Rochester Cathedral (1991-2003); Archdeacon of Bromley and Bexley (1994-2003); Southwell & Nottingham Diocesan Chaplain to Retired Clergy (2004-09). b 26 November 1938; d 17 November 2023. Further information: Wikipedia; Church Times 12 January 2024, p 28.

News today from Myfanwy Cupit that Derek had died in January (our children went to the same school until we moved north in 1978). I had added the following to the obits page:

CUPIT, Derek William. 1946-1951. Youth tutor, teacher and senior community education tutor, Sawston Village College, Cambridgeshire. b 1935 Carlton; d January 2023, Cambridgeshire.

Peter Taylor’s Memoir on life at HMGS [1956-63], What Would Calverton Do? can be found at the link HERE

Added to Miscellanea Page