Back Row: H.P.Bryant, F.P.Moorby, W.A.Smart, B.G.Carfoot, L.Watts, Mr D.M.Davies
Front Row: F.Lee, G.Starbuck, W.J.Adams (Captain), F.K.Webster, L.B.Birch
Floor: K.B.Howkins, G.A.Staley
Back Row: B01, B02, B03, B04, B05, Charles May
Middle Row: M01, M02, M03, M04, M05
Back Row: B01, James Woolley, B03, B04, B05
Middle Row: M01, Charles May, M03, M04, M05
Front Row: F01
Back Row: K.Meakin, J.Wheway, D.Thompson, G.Mainprize, M.Gittins, D.Brearley
Front Row: D.Starbuck, G.Haines, J.Clubb (Captain), H.Salter, J.Wood
Back Row: B01, B02, B03, B04
Front Row: F01, F02, Jim (Bertie) Brookes, F04 (Captain), F05, F06, F07
Back Row: D. Aspinall, G.J.K.Acres, J.Brown, Stabler, I.G.Halliwell
Front Row: W.J.Parker, D.J.Green, Roger Brown, Mr R. Illingworth, J.E.Hancock, R.A.Lester, J.B.Raby
Back Row: Mike Hamilton, John Hunt, B03, Roger Haines, Peter Taylor, Powell
Front Row: Peter Ling, Alan Neal, John Harvey, Geoffrey Boyce, Bob Knight
Back Row: Ling, Campbell, Hughes, Smith, Charles, B06, Neville, Rodney Hardwick, Peter Trigg, Andrew Gadsby, Derek Davenport
Front Row: Knight, Tony Yarranton, Brian Bradbury, Maurice Kersey, Terry Bentley, Herbert Pitchford (Headmaster), John Hurt, Whittaker, Colin Copestake, Jack Richards, Taylor
Back Row: John Sherratt, Keith Tomlinson, Andrew Livermore, David Jones, Peter Sharratt, Howard Ramsey, David Shilton, Bill Dunn
Middle Row: Ian Dilks, Andrew Woodland, Barry Smith, Kim Renwick, Richard Bugg, Ian Derratt, Brian Davis, Pat Oven
Front Row: Bob Barnes, John van der Merwe, George Wooley, Colin Beard (Headboy), Bill Gillion (Headmaster), Bob Lathbury, Steven Lakin, Rory Butler, Richard Hayes
The Burton-on-Trent Grammar School Dramatic Society was founded in early 1920 by Mr E.C. Nicholson who had arrived at the school the previous year to teach Chemistry.
On Friday and Saturday, the 17th and 18th December 1920, the Society staged its first production. It was a comedy in four acts written by Madeline Ryley called Jedbury Junior.
The cast is given below, which included Mr Nicholson himself who played the neice. Also, probably most notably was a young George Cooper, who can be seen on the extreme right, who was to go on to have the longest ever association with Burton Grammar School where he would retire as deputy headmaster some 48 years later!
CAST
Christopher Jedbury Senior (An East Indian Merchant)
F.J. Richards
Mrs Jedbury (wife)
J.J. Baker
Christopher Jedbury Junior (son)
F. Waterton
Nelly Jedbury (daughter)
E.W. Misater
Whimper (man-servant)
George Cooper
Job (valet to Jedbury Jnr.)
G.W. Britton
Major Hedway (retired soldier)
H. Lyon
Dora (neice)
E.C. Nicholson
Mr Glibb (President of the Society for the suppression of juvenille gambling)
H. Henson
Mrs Glibb (his wife)
S.D. Berry
Tom Bellaby (lawyer)
B.C. Saunders
Mr Simpson (Manager of the Bombay House)
F.B. Buxton