Photographs

A Collection of Photographs can be found on David Hallam’s Smugmug page to be found here.

Some from the The Centaur have been de-screened to remove the dots from the printing process but the quality of a number of the originals is low.

From Volume 19, Number 39, Summer Term 1950, 21st Anniversary Number:

From Volume 22, Number 45, Summer Term 1953:

From Volume 24, Number 48, Spring Term 1955, Silver Jubilee:

From Volume 25, Number 50, Spring Term 1956:

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The 1958 Prefects

The same group as above but on a separate occasion and in their prefects’ caps

Untitled — Reunion ca 1985. Back row: Miles Onley, Neil Cossons, Fred Green, Garth Norman (or possibly Frank Clifford), Glen Nightingale. Front row: Graeme Wilcox, Mick Fisher

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Staff Football Revised — Staff dressed for football. The date is probably late 1940s. Original source unknown but this copy passed to N. Cossons (1950-58) by the late J.A.T. ‘Jat’ Holloway (1950-58). A gem for those of us of the 1950s and 60s.

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Regular Inhabitants of the Biology Library et al., Summer 1961

1954-64 Peaker 497 — Back row: Colin Love, Michael R. Cooper, Gordon J. Taylor (died 2008), Gordon D. Masson. Middle row: Nigel D. Dixon (died 1997), Keith L. Crouch, John Glasby, Malcolm Peaker, Andrew Martin, Michael J. Lander, Raymond E. Hickling. Front: Peter J. Severn, Philip J. Mayfield

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V Science 1954-55 (from David Hallam)

5sc_1955 David Mundy comments: front left on the grass is Peter (T.P.) Turner, son of Tom Turner who had a large hardware shop on Front Street, Arnold. After it closed, Peter ran a smaller version on the opposite side of Front Street just round from the corner of Coppice Road. He married, but sadly his wife died young. Front row fourth from right on the grass was his cousin David (F.D.) Wilson, a superb musician, who became organist at Front Street Baptist Church and got me, a pianist, into organ playing! He eventually became organist at St. Paul’s Daybrook, back to HMGS (according to your data), Head of Music at Redhill Secondary, and later as Head of Music for Notts. C.C, I believe. What intrigues me that I was always asked to pick the hymn and play the Bechstein Grand in the hall for morning assembly when Mr. Saggers had been held up! The last time I did it I chose the ‘Old One Hundredth’ and the roof was lifted off! Mr. Saggers spoke to me afterwards about it! It was very difficult to get sixth formers to sing so it was a unique moment! Back row, second from left is Bill Hall (father was head chemist at Boots). Centre row, right hand end, Stanley Charles was the only person in Form 1A who could swim! Back row third from the right is Hedley Mather

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1958-59 Prefects (from Tom Elliott)

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1954. CCF RAF Section at summer camp, RAF Thorney Island (from David Mundy – left, middle row)

Officers/staff are W.L. Evans, E.A. Hutchinson and F. Clarke. David Mundy writes: ‘Sitting on the grass left is ‘Ginger’ Hughes from Arnold, then Roger Lewis. Middle row right-hand end is Hedley Mather, behind him on the back row is George Fox, third from the right is Bill Hall and fourth from the right is Brian Newbert. Back row again, third in from the left is ‘Grinner’ Welsh. The camp started off with 6 of us per tent (Roger, Bill, Grinner, Brian, Hedley and me, we got to know each other very well as you can imagine!) but soon after we arrived there was a huge downpour and we were moved into the actual RAF barracks, three to a room (I was on the floor while Bill and Brian had beds!). We had several camps, one being up in Middleton-St-George, near Darlington where we visited the Darlington Foundry where they made ocean liner prop. shafts on enormous lathes and steam presses. We also went to Honington, near Newmarket, when all the Canberras took off during the night and we we all obliged to sign up to the Official Secrets Act! (they went to Malta, just before Suez!) What fun!’

1956 CCF .22 Shooting Team. Winners of the North Midland cadet competition receiving their medals at the inspecton on 23 March; they won the next year too (from David Mundy – nearest camera)