This is the only picture that has survived from my time at Burton Grammar School. I really hate it but, since I have featured a…
The Headmaster, W.D. Fraser died of a stroke whilst on a walking holiday in Scotland at Michaelmas half-term 1941. He was eventually succeeded by Harold…
When I arrived with my brother, I about eleven and a half and he two years my senior, I felt myself a minnow among big…
School started with assembly in the hall under the eagle eye of Tom Parkin. The Headmaster read a prayer, a hymn was sung, notices read…
Having been bombed out in London’s East End in 1941, I was evacuated with my brother Dennis and my Mother to Newhall near Burton. We…
It was just after 11 o’clock on a foggy Monday morning,the 27th November 1944. As a ten year old boy I sat at my desk…
In the 1950s the RAF seemed to be very exciting. The new RAF fighter planes the Supermarine Swift and the Hawker Hunter broke several world…
On the face of it there’s never been anything special about Bond Street. Nothing at all, except, that is, for many of us who used…
An account of the school during World War I Years would be very welcome.
Until the late nineteen twenties, it was Natural History taught by the greying and kindly Mr Storer who lived handily in a large house at the…