2) When I check my Search box Log I can see what query words people have entered for their searches. These are often made against the Update I have recently posted. If you see an underlined word in the Update that is in blue just click on that word to be taken directly to the relevant page.
By all means use the search box and I am very pleased people are using it - but there is often a quicker way. Please let me know of 'broken' links - that is links that do not work or take you to an error page, I can then correct them. I hope this helps.
3) Over the years a number of you have asked if I know what happened to Henri Forti - someone told me he is an actor with the name Jonathan Burn. If indeed this is so, the other link is a picture from a Google search on the name - and I would be obliged if anyone can confirm or disprove this.
4) I have recently stumbled upon a site where some items of local interest to the Sherborne area are to be found - these include postings from Barbara Farmer and one from Edward Jewell who has written a book called "A Cotswold way of life" which he says has references to Sherborne House. Link to the site of Francis Frith, where you will be able to see 8 photos of Sherborne circa 1960.
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Some of you who were at the Sherborne Reunion in April may have met or remade your acquaintances with Harry who attended the meet at the Reading Room.
I say you will no doubt remember the post Office as this was the place so often visited to purchase illicit alcohol often in the form of Woodpecker Cider. For some it was also a source of schoolboy treats such as sweets and Fussell's condensed milk. The latter one generally accessed with the aid of a jack-knife and the contents eaten with ones finger.
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2) KS Reunion July 5th 2008. George Cooper is arranging a school reunion for next year - at a different venue to the Belfry but only about 3 miles away. He is is in the process of emailing all concerned so I will let him fill in the details and post them here subsequently.
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4) My apologies to
On another note if you go to the Friends Reunited site you will see that certain individuals have added their names to our school - even up to 2001 and several of them are girls!
2) Ann Mosey made a nostalgic visit to Sherborne in July/ August and sent me these
3) Sad news of the death of
4) Many thanks to Bob Curtis for sending me a photocopy of the
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3) John Carter says:
I attended Kings School from January 1950 and left (December) 1955, Those years it was very difficult for Mr and Mrs Mosey, the country was on the end of food rationing and keeping an even balance with 100 plus highly active young boys was certainly a tricky job. The Mosey's broke all records by having 14 + boys plus Kate Mosey in hospital all within 6
months with apendicitus.
4) Patrick Delaney recalls that as Roge Orrell used to say "I'll serve and feed'em!" - his translation of the school motto.
5) Alwyn Hawkes has asked me to bring to your attention a note issued by the Sherborne Parochial Church Council about the retirement of Rev. Selwood, who is the Vicar who helped us to get the KS Memorial set in place in the church. For anyone who may be intersted in either giving a donation or attending he Service, I have scanned both Al's letter to me and the PCC note. I have however removed the address from the note as it is my policy not to publish such personal infromation on site - but should anyone wish to haveit, please contact me.
Monday 23rd July 2007 (UD07/18)
1) I am happpy to welcome my old friend John Carter (1950-55?) to the KS Update membership. John mentioned some names to me of our era - Gadd, Chandler, Gerald Lush, Howard Read, the Solankis, Iqbal Shafiq, the Patels - does anyone else remember them?
2) Welcome also to Stephen Heard (1964-67). He says "I am the boy standing next to Graham Beaumont as he is placing his bags into a car, (here). I wonder if anyone remembers a haystack getting burned on the Windrush side of Sherborne and the school being blamed, or Thomas wrecking his DB2? driving back from Burford or Northleach one winter?"
3) The names of Old Boys attending Reunions are now in searchable format.
Wednesday 27th June 2007 (UD07/17)
1) Documents - Letters to Parents 1965/66 revisited. To my horror I discovered that the declared Update (UD07/07) item 2 was not actually in place! Well, it is now - you can peruse the letters sent to parents in those latter years.
2) Spurred on by an Update Member informing me of a broken link, I have remedied all other broken links on the site (for the lay-person this is when clicking on a link brings up that dreaded The page cannot be displayed ) I believe the site is now behaving as it should. Please continue to make me aware of any slip ups - I try to make your navigation of my site as smooth as possible.
3) [Sentence removed to update information.]David Wright notes a couple of points, he mentions JHM smoking a pipe and that it may have been a nurse who washed out the mouth of a boy caught swearing - any comments on these or anything else he recalls?
4) I am pleased to welcome Bill Marshall to the Update Circular he makes us 62 members in all.
5) For those inerested in the Report of an OB who saw fit to spend much of his time breaking the School Rules - David Wright. They may be interested to see how JHM comments on someone who he has forbidden to return to school the next term - "No comment."
Thursday 21st June 2007 (UD07/16)
1) I have to announce the sad news that Brian Sims who was our French Teacher 1954 - 57, died in his sleep on 19th June 2007, aged 78. His funeral is on Friday 29th June. Many of us remade our acquaintance with him at the recent school reunion in April. He remarked to me that he had very much enjoyed his time at King's School.
2) A little earlier than planned, I have added a couple of pictures from John Bunting taken at the 2007 Reunion. I have put up the best on balance of 3 group pictures - time permitting I will attempt at producing a composite with everyone actually looking at the camera!
Sunday 17th June 2007 (UD07/15)
1) Memories of Teddy Moss and others:
Tim Prestage recalls:
"When Teddy Moss was Head Boy I was one of the Prefects together with Clifford, Papworth and others. Moss was a kind and jolly character with a good sense of fairness. It was a pleasure working with him."Mike Abbott remembers:
Alexander was already at School when I started in Sept 1955. He was a senior and I think must have been in Form 5 or 5X. I would believe he left School in Summer 1956. He was a fairly quiet sort of chap, he would have been John Bunting's era.Teddy Moss was of course David Moss 1, nicknamed Teddy because of his curly hair. He had either 1 or 2 younger brothers at school too. He was prefect with myself and one of his jobs was to do the weekly House points (HP) Report, such that the boy with the most HP received the Weekly Award (by way of the little cup to put in the classroom) presented by the Headmaster (of the day) or JHM at Saturday morning Assembly. Teddy Moss was a bit of a pal of mine at the time, he went on to be Head Boy 1960-61 I think. Thoroughly nice chap, but I think it was reported through the system that he had passed away not too long ago. I think he was from Lancashire. [You may recall I posted a while back that Nick Sweet had informed me that Teddy Moss had died.]
And in response to Robin Penrice's anecdote:2) "Katsonutos discovers apple pies!" And, "Defence of Freedom." Yet more recollections from the pen of Patrick Delaney. Does anyone else remember Katsonutos?
Robin asked if anyone remembered 'the English Teacher who had dyed hair...etc' this was Miss Green and she taught Maths (and as Robin said she lasted about a term) and she must have 'smoked' 50/day.Peter Thomas' Lagonda 2.6 was a saloon (lovely motor) it was his previous Alvis 14 had the tatty red coloured soft-top. I remember JHM's 48/49 era Standard Vanguard and the replacement Morris Isis.
3) 1962 Magazine now in PDF format, with many thanks to Mike Abbott who has completed the typing of the magazine. This brings the Magazine to PDF Project to a close - thanks again to all concerned.
Although the Magazine was printed without page numbers I have added them so you can refer to or comment on things.
I never cease to be amazed each time I come across another business initiative of JHM. In this magazine the chicken population is up to 20,000 birds and at Easter they had 30,000 eggs awaiting collection! Consequent Chicken Manure was sold country wide! Also a Christmas tree project had some 6,000 Norwegian Spruce planted round Top Pitch and in the Gardens. All allegedly funding the Scholarship Fund.
Again some pretty reasonable poetry. More clubs or societies for recreation than you could shake a stick at. I would have liked to have thought the School went downhill after I left but have to admit that certainly for a time things seemed to improve a great deal!
27th May 2007 (UD07/14)
1) Just a few pictures taken on the occasion of the KS Reunion in April 2007. A unique pair of cufflinks with the school badge on them were made for Nick Sweet and not Roger Fowler as I suggested previously.
The Reunion took place on Sunday 29th April 2007, at the Reading Room social club in Sherborne. Malcolm Stacey gave a very interesting peach about what really happened during the school's last days. He has promised a personal account to be published on this site in due course. I will be devoting a page to the event and welcome photographs and comments from any who were present.
2) I was with John Coville in Andorra last week and of course we talked about KS. Does anyone remember Teddy Moss (Plastics), Threadgold or Alexander?
3) Another couple of snaps from Richard Hole - can anyone help with the spelling/ names on these group pictures please?
4) Added another picture to Patrick Delaney's page. Also put him in Rogues Gallery.
19th April 2007 (UD07/13)
1) There are no more places available for the Sherborne 60th Reunion. Please do not turn up without a ticket because literally there is no more room at the Inn! There is however a Guest List for those who wish to know who else is going.
The next Reunion will be at Marston Green in the Midlands in Summer 2008. Further details in due course.
2) The 1962 Magazine is in hand and is moving towards completion of the series in PDF. I would like to know whether or not you have found this format useful. Please let me know if you would like to see any other documents presented in this format.
Tuesday 10th April 2007 (UD07/12)
1) 1963 Magazine now in PDF format, with many thanks to Malcolm Stacey who has completed the typing of the magazine. Of particular note the School Play that went to Cheltenham; The Great Frost of 1963; some great poetry; a personal description of Baghdad. (I have added numbers to the pages in case you want to remember where you got to.)
2) 1963 King's School Old Boys' Association Supplement now in PDF format, thanks to Mike Abbott. Of particular note is a road trip written up by John Coville - for someone who does not like the cold, see second paragraph - he got his share! There is also an article written about the Teachers of KS - I wonder if anyone can say who they are. (Numbers added here too.)
3) 1963 Association Account for completeness and for anyone interested in such things.
4) Remember this place? Does anyone have a sketch of the inside of the building as it was when it was a school - it might jog my memories. Any photos you have of the inside of the building from school days would be a great addition to the site too.
Thursday 29th March 2007 (UD07/11)
1) The 1962 King's School Old Boys' Association Supplement, now in PDF, it has been typed out by Mike Abbott. He notes:
"Tony Hanks makes reference to Israfil during his epic journey to Istanbul by car in 1960!! Israfil was one of the boys to receive a Public Caning in front of the whole school and Staff....I cannot remember the insignificant reason, but I recall it had something to do with copious quantities of Tuck! Israfil was a big lad I remember, he would have needed copious quantities to survive!!"
2) Cocoa Urn photo - thanks once more to Andrew Cameron-Tillett. This picture brings up so many memories - see Conrad's personal page. Also a sheet describing the KS Studio Club contributions to the Muriel Beach-Thomas Gallery, Burford.
Sunday 25th March 2007 (UD07/10)
1) Have added Andrew Cameron-Tillett to Rogues Gallery.
2) Andrew has also sent me a few more pictures from his personal collection. Of particular note is a contract between his father and Mr Winn which I have placed under School Documents here.
3) This is prompted by a question from Barbara Farmer who has a lifetime interest in astronomy and space travel. In the 1965 & 1966 magazines reference is made to the rocket project - the first being TEKCOR which was successfully launched and the second being LAB – M (Lower Atmospheric Ballistic Missile). This was due for launch Summer 1967 when I believe the school closed. Does anyone know any more about the project than appears in the magazines?
4) The 1960 Magazine is now in PDF. Brian Bolton has typed it up - he worked from scans of poorly photocopied material; so I thank him for his determination in working with intentional errors and coping with difficult formatting.
I liked the Editorial on Science - more specifically 'Che-mystery' and the final 2 pages whose story contains all the names of the boys in school at the time. Page 12 sees the introduction of television, the building of the Skating Rink or Hard and development of chicken and mushroom production. Far easier to read than in the original scans.
Thursday 22nd March 2007 (UD07/09)
1) The 1965 Magazine is now in PDF. Many thanks to Mike Abbott who has typed it up - it was a particularly bad copy and my gratitude is further extended to him for his diligence in discerning intentional errors.
An interesting Magazine worth a read whether you were in school at that time or not. Mr. Mosey is in good form (pun intended) - his editorial covers History. His response to a special birthday and the christening of his daughter. Further information on the rocket project and a rather nice piece of poetry from N.E. Francis then in VB1.
2) Added a cover page to School Plays to make it easier to find a particular play.
3) "Contact me:" In an effort to keep my eMail address from being harvested by spammers I no longer have a 'mailto' defined on this page, instead I've placed my eMail address in a zip file. This does away with my 'remove the SPAM first' strategy which unfortunately some people did not follow and wondered why their mail bounced! You may have noticed I have also used a device to show my telephone number without it appearing as such. Let's hope this suits us all better.
4) I have improved how FreeFind Search works to cut down on duplicates - and will continue to do so subject to time available. If you do a search and do not get what you want - try using 'Advanced' where you can denote an exact phrase. Search results now include data from within any pdf files such as typed up magazines.
5) Please send me a recent photo of yourself so I can add you to Rogue's Gallery. I would also be happy to include a link through this page to your site if you have one.
Saturday 17 March 2007 (UD07/08)
1) William StAubyn asks, "Does anybody have info on Mr Clemo the french master in 63/64? I was his sole A level student and I would like to let him know that I passed the year after I left Kings. We had rather an irreverent name for him but I think his real name was Michael." [I have him down as H Clemo in my Attendance list and Clive Perkins referred to him as J Clemo - Ed]
2) Added a text version of the information Al Hawkes wrote on the back of the 1945/46 Kingsholme school photograph, so that it can be picked up on a search of the site. Hopefully someone will be able to add/ correct a few names too.
3) Added myself and Brian Lewis to the Rogues Gallery.
Thursday 22nd February 2007 (UD07/07)
1) Many thanks to Anguus McLellan for loaning a number of documents for inclusion on the site. I have placed the first of these in the Prospectus section comprising a covering letter to his father from Mr Winn, some Essential Notes outlining notable 'greats' of the school and a picture of the Great Hall (sorry about the quality - this is due to the scanner.)
2) The second selection in School Documents, consists of Letters to Parents during the years 1961 to 1966. Of particular note are those relating to the newspaper articles that ultimately led to the closure of the school.
3) Thirdly I have added the sports programme as Exhibition Week End 1963.
4) I have just spotted an anomaly within the site - some of you may have had problems displaying the large pictures in some of the following pages:-
School Reports and School Documents 4. I have now corrected this.
Monday 5th February 2007 (UD07/06)
1) KS 60th Anniversary Reunion, Sunday 29th April 2007.
There are a few places available to people who have not already been contacted by Alwyn. These are still on a 'first come - first served' invitation only basis. In the first instance please contact me as 'gatekeeper' and I will pass your request to Alwyn - then as soon as we reach a cut-off point I will email successful and unsuccessful people. Please make sure you follow the instructions at the bottom of the main page if you have not contacted me before. Please also say if you will be bringing a guest. Tickets cost £11 each and are for lunch buffet only.
2) Richard Statham adds further anecdotes following on from Patrick Delaney's story about Mr. Thompson.
3rd February 2007 (UD07/05)
1) The 1966 Magazine is now in PDF. Many thanks to Barbara Farmer who has typed it up. It is a very interesting Magazine. Some very good articles - including UFO sightings and a school rocket; of note a large number of societies and sports groups.
2) Brian Bolton sheds further light on the 10 mile radius, a 15 mile radius for seniors, and ways of getting round it!
3) Patrick Delaney brings us 'fireworks' and a story about George Seale (circa 1949-50). Item (12).
4) Patrick has also sent a few pictures of himself and friends from 1950 - 51. I have given him a page in Personal Collections in the hope that he may dig out a few more photographs.
5) apologies to anyone who has attempted to add their name to my Update circular or to change their email address for the circular. My ISP has had problems with this feature for some months and it continues... If anyone wants to do either of these things, please email bearing in mind the instruction at the base of the main page.
Sunday 21st January 2007 (UD07/04)
1) Nick Sweet (1956-60) comments:
Interesting to read Robin Penrice's anecdotes. I think the female teacher with the red hair that only lasted a term was Miss Green. I remember when she was on swimming pool duty she would wear a green plastic/pvc coat for protection. Someone in the shallow end would call and distract her and the ace bombers, Merret and Hawkins, would come off the top board landing perilously near to the edge of the pool where she was standing and soak her. On reflection I am surprised she lasted a full term!2) Nick recalls a very amusing incident - you can find this on his page of Anecdotes.
3) Patrick Delaney adds a further selection of memories - I have titled them "Teaching subjects, Hellfire, etc" and can be located as item 11 on his page.
Friday 12th January 2007 (UD07/03)
1) Over the years it has been suggested that we have a Rogues Gallery or 'Then and now' page. I am happy to do so if you send me enough entries to make it worth while. What I need is a picture of you when you were at school - any stated year and a recent picture of you, say within 12 months or so - again with the year it was taken. While this is in the trial stage I will use a link from the Anecdotes Index. I have started it off with photos of Philip Jolley - as usual click on the small pictures to view a larger version.
2) This Update we welcome Robin Penrice to the list - there are currently 58 members who are now receiving my Update Circular. He has sent me many recalled snippets which you can find on a page I have opened for him under Anecdotes. I am sure some of the notes will prompt you to respond with more information. If anyone has lost touch with him and would like his email address - just contact me and I will let you have it.
3) Philip Jolley has sent me some interesting aerial photographs of the Sherborne area, as it is now. I have put these under Buildings.
4) Philip has also provided a copy of the 1958 School Photo - you can find this from the 2nd School Photo page. As yet he is the only boy I am sure of - the others are guesses. I would be grateful if someone will identify the people so I can complete the list.
Friday 5th January 2007 (UD07/02)
1) The 60th Anniversary of King's School Reunion - 29 April 2007 - Alwyn Hawkes informs me that due to the size of the venue at the Sherborne Reading Room, we are limited to 55 people. Initially this will only be open to the original Altar Fund contributors on a first come first served basis - strictly Invitation Only. (Alwyn will be writing to you all individually in due course.) I will keep you informed as to how many places are taken up and whether or not the invitation can be extended.
2) Patrick Delaney has sent another addition to his anecdotes page - you can find this here as item 10) - hit the link in the index! It includes a response to Colin Fry.
Monday 1st January 2007 (UD07/01)
1) As we start into the 6th year of the KS Photo Archive site, may I wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year.
2) You will now find last year's updates relegated to their own page, by clicking the link below. Where necessary I have updated the links but please let me know should you find one that does not work.
[ Link to 2002 Updates ]
[ Link to 2003 Updates ]
[ Link to 2004 Updates ]
[ Link to 2005 Updates ]
[ Link to 2006 Updates ]
[ KS Directory ]
