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Form Pages for the 1949 PANORAMA have now been created.  It is essential that the identifications and my work is checked

 1st 2nd & 3rd  4th  5th 6th  Unidentified   1949 Panoramic Key

1956 Re Union now being planned  70% boys identified. Contact RBandJMBryan@aol.com

If you haven't contacted me, please send me an e-mail so that I can keep you informed of any major updates.  Please tell me the year you arrived and left the school:  grahamtall@yahoo.com

NEW BOOK ON THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

My brother David and I, with the help of many 'old boys', are writing a book describing Wellingborough Grammar School.  The book is        designed to complement the 'Old Boys' book:-  Wellingborough Grammar School: A History of the School 1930-1975 written by Don            Stratton assisted by Derrick Pearce.  Using the words and descriptions given by many old boys we are attempting to describe the school as the boys perceived it over the years whilst placing it in the context of the changes in education at the time.  There are chapters, on the         teachers, the clubs & societies, the sporting activities, the trips and the curriculum as it changed through the schools history.  The book will describe four periods, one under each of the headmasters and a final one describing the school's last 10 years.  From those chapters the       experiences of the boys and the resultant positive, negative and sometimes very mixed feelings about the school become evident.  We are   hoping to write a book which we old boys, our children and our grandchildren will enjoy - it is a piece of social history.  The majority of the    book is now in draft form, but there is still much that can be added:                                                                                                                       

We only have basic information on the following teachers: Charlie Ward, Beerie Ward, Tony Sparrow (reasonable amount on his rugby)      and Brett Tussler and even less on Ernie Huddart, J.Barker, Ron Bentley and Charlie Chesters.   We have useful information on the          dramatic society, railway club, scouts and Toc H but hardly any on other societies - we need 60s and 70s boys to send in that information.    We have only recently discovered football, we need more on that, basketball and cricket - don't let it appear that the only team sport was    rugby.  If you are interested in the book and, you can help by sending information, please contact me.  Any quotes used will, unless you are determined to be anonymous, be credited to you in the book.                                                                                      grahamtall@yahoo.com    

Major help required with 1940,  1946 and 1962 panoramas.

Panoramas Available:       Keys         %   Named      Form Photos      Unidentified    Comment

1930 Panorama       1933 Panorama       1936 Panorama      1938 Panorama      

 Panoramic Keys will be created for the above if any lists of names are offered.

1940 Panorama             1940 Panorama Key     It is now up to you, as yet, not a single name.

1946 Panorama             1946 Panoramic Key    66% Named:   Reached 60%        ----                       That's Excellent  Give me time

1949 Panorama             1949 Panoramic Key    88% Named:   1st  2nd   3rd     4th  5th 6th  Unidentified     Form pages created

1952 Panorama             1952 Panoramic Key    99% Named:   1st 2nd 3rd 4th&5th 6th  Unidentif.   We need a form list from summer 1951

1955 Panorama             1955 Panoramic Key    96% Named:   1st 2nd 3rd 4th&5th 6th  Unidentif.   to identify early leavers from 1952-53

1958 Panorama             1958 Panoramic Key    98% Named:   1st 2nd 3rd 4th&5th 6th  Unidentif.   can anyone copy pages and send them?

1962 Panorama             1962 Panoramic Key    51% Named:  A jump in numbers, but still only half of the boys named  - can you  help???

Later Panoramas can be seen on the Nostalgic Wellingborough GS site  I now have copies of all but 1968 - if you can provide a copy of that I will start the form naming process?

Do remember, photos, memories are needed to make the site live. Let me know if you have mags: before 1940, post 1962 that can be scanned (a long term project!)>  Magazines copied to date: Magazines    send to me at grahamtall@yahoo.com.

A Nice Thank you:  I think that you are now entitled to amend the main site signpost to read:

       Loads of WGS stuff from the 40's, 50's & 60's

Thank you for your efforts and keep up the good work.     John Cook (1947)

If you haven't been to the Nostalgic Wellingborough GS site  Visit it, Paul & I exchange info!

This Page will be re-organised soon, however for a description of the 1955 Reunion select here:  REUNION   But first I want to say thanks to my classmates because of their totally unexpected award of a glass plaque inscribed with the address of this web page   www.wgs1955.org.uk

Picture of Female Staff During the War

Somebody kept their School Cap! click Cap! to remind yourself of its tasteful, practical design

If you want to see how the staff changed over the years and who smiles, click: Teachers in Panoramas

The picture on the left was taken in 2005, but is identical to when we were at WGS.  The picture below was taken in the thirties  - What is missing?

Relevant Sites:
   Details of other reunions:    www.wgs1952.org.uk    1954 Reunion done, but no web site
   1967 reunion described on Wellingborough GS site

   The Official Wrenn School web site (When the school became comprehensive the LEA honoured
   Harold, by naming the new school after him.  Understandably, though sadly, the Grammar
   School is not mentioned but the Wrenn school's notepaper bears a very familiar image:)

Prepared  12th February 2005     grahamtall@yahoo.com    Contact    Updated 26th January 2006