A Personal View Index
Hemsworth Grammar School
"This is just fabulous to find this site ... for seven years I loved going to that place, HGS ... and as I've been exploring the site, I am amazed at how much comes flooding in, generalities and very detailed memories."
Jean Snookes
HGS 1950-57, Price, Head Girl 1956-57
Jean Snookes
Status: ​17 pages and 181 articles/memories 17.04.2022
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Idyllic
It's 3.30 pm and Mr Hamilton bowls in a Staff Match against the School's Cricket First XI.
​Photo: Batey
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​1. Before HGS. 1954-55
​​2. A pivotal year.​ 1955-56
3. School Sport and finding an edge. 1956-57
4. A crisp and then progress.​ 1957-58
​5. The backwards glide of Parry O'Brien. 1958-59
6. A "lucky" injury and being less competitive at sport. 1959-60
7. Levels of Sport 1960-61 
8. Higher level action and Joe Parrot's fish shop. 1961-62
9. After HGS a new culture and adjustment to it. 1962-63
1. Tony Pickering
2. Linda Bona
3. Daphne Hart
4. Christine Fitzpatrick
5. Peter Cooper
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6. The 1947 School Magazine Editorial
7. The Scholar's Ticket
8. Memories from the Forties
​9. Swimming
​10. Dave went to HGS in September 1955
11. The School Office
12. HGS and Mr Hamilton
13. A Field Trip to the Dales, 11th July 1954
14. An excursion to Wentbridge in 1926
​15. The Tennis Courts
1. Thoughts from Geoff Booth
2. Sports Day
​3. Changes to the front of the School site. 
4. The Changeover HGS to HHS 1967-68
5. Changes from HGS to HHS
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6. The last singing of the School Song
​7. This website
8. The HGS System 
​9. Formal and Informal
10. Music in the Quad by the Top Corridor
11. Not an easy start as Head for RWH
12. One of Miss Smith's books
​13. The School Caretaker
14. Options
​15. Changes
​1. Tempus Fugit
2. Free School Milk 1935 and later
3. A dynamic organisation
​4. A happy Staff
5. The Cricket Pavilion
​6. A Play from 1950
7. On Rough Books
8. Stagehands and other helpers
9. The other side in 1950?
10. Miss Ward's Mapograph
11. Images: Staff Hockey Match 1965-66
12. The History Group Visit 6th July 1961
13. The First Team Rugby pitch
14. Displays of pupils' work on Sports Days.
15. Music from some Speech Days
1. The High Jump and some of its risks
2. Stars from Sports Day 1941
3. Florence Crossley: an HGS shining star
​4. Mr C. Owen
5. Mr D. Taylor ​
6. The school as a Grammar School
7. The Main Hall Gym and the New Gymnasium
1. The Changes as the life of HGS came to an end.
2. The buses' circle.
3. Jean Burton (HGS 1936-43) remembers
4. The Main Playground just before the major changes started.
5. Sundry recollections of Hemsworth Grammar School 1935-1940.
6. A step into 1968
7. More memories from Mr Sale, HGS Staff 1956-61
8. The boy in the tunnels
9. A website compliment from Terry Dillon (HGS 1947-55)
10. The new Hemsworth High School 1968
1. Memories and feelings in the land where nothing changes.
​2. Broad Lane Junior School Scholarship boys in 1955.
3. That first year of ours in 1955 in the New Block, Rooms 22 and 23.
4. School Fees and Exams 1940s at Hemsworth Grammar School. 
​5. A seldom seen view.
6. The North Walk
7. The HGS Senior Mistresses
8. Hemsworth Secondary School Goes 'Grammar'
9. A Parent's Challenge in 1923
10. ​From the Forum: Thoughts and Hindsight
1. What use is Latin?
2. 1930 Homework and Health
​3. 1923 the wider picture and Drama
4. Memories of the 1930s from Doris Watson
5. The Building of the Boundary Wall
6. A personal view from Melvyn Thomas
7. Rose Hips
8. A tough day in 1939 but success in 1945!
9. The personality of a school
10. Slipping Away
11. 1957 New Gym and Science Labs
​1. What we had at HGS
2. Miss Ward
3. The School Office 1937-39
​4. Finger, Thumb or Dum.
5. A Perfect Head of Hair
6. Website Graphs and Lists
7. Reflections on Life at HGS
​8. The Honours Boards
9. Letter from a former student
10. Maureen Ardron remembers
​11. Sid Kenningham HGS 1950-59 
12. Mr. Hamilton’s 1948 Address
13. 1957-58 brings 3A and hard work
14. 1958-59 and 4S arrives for Dave
15. Thoughts about 5S
1. Speech Day 1961
2. Mr Hamilton and Fate
3. Autumn Term 1937 (Mr Hamilton's first)
4. Speech Day 1930: Lord Middleton's Speech
5. Memories of Staff
6. Aspects of the House System
7. A poignant moment from Speech Day 1967
​8. The HGS Staff and Drama
9. A connection with Mr Collette
10. Mr Jack Rhodes ​
1. Mr Hodson (HGS Head of History) on the HGS Final Assembly
2. Mr Hodson ​on Mr. Hamilton
3. Mr Hodson ​​on Geoffrey Boycott
4. Mr Hodson on his HGS interview
5. Mr Hodson on three memories
6. A Field Trip to the Lake District in 1957
7. Forced Changes
8. An email from 2004
9. An email from Keith Shelley in 2002
10. An email from John Robinson (HGS 1956-61)
1. Relaxed and purposeful or not
2. The rock of stability, no matter what.
3. Memories for everyone
4. Janet Noble writes it down
5. S.M.T. 1955-62
6. Mr Hamilton's Planning
​7. Mr Burnell
​8. Worried teaching Staff of HGS 1936-37?
9. Staff changes in the 1940s. 
10. Mrs Hamilton
1. Random reflections from a happy time
2. Peter Hryschko remembers (1)
​3. Peter Hryschko remembers (2)
4. Peter Hryschko remembers (3)
​5. Ready for the relay
6. Transfers between Schools
7. Caught in History
8. Autumn 1940
9. At Mr Hamilton's first Speech Day
10. Mr. Wilkinson
1. The biscuit tin
2. How parents can help. ​1929
3. An email from Gordon Clarke in 2004
​4. Ivy and chimneys in 1951
​5. The 1957 New Gym and Science Block
6. Insights
7. ​​Mr. Collette's retirement in 1965
8. Snippets from behind the scenes
1. The last Upper 6A and Upper 6S 1966-67
2. The HGS spaces
3. Mr. Jenkinson.
4. A summary of progress in the development of H.S.S. in 1932
​5. Observations from Keith Vest, HGS 1946-50
6. The Annual Cross Country run
7. Mr Jenkinson indicates his intention to retire
​8. Mr Hamilton, Sport and the organisation of his personal work.
​9. Three sides of the Quad.
1. Between Scylla & Charybdis
​2. The Mock Elections 
3. The HGS war effort
4. Irene Wright's corner
5. Headmaster's House and School Extensions
6. The School Play 1958
​7. The Purpose of Education
8. Memories from Mr Collette
1. Early days and Speech Day 1955
2. Dux
​3. Your Job or Your Marriage
4. Leaving school and different ways of progression,1956
5. Our HGS teachers 1943-50 ​
6. The personal importance of HGS to Geoff Graham
7. The Black Shed 
​8. Miss Griffiths
9. School History from a pupil's research
Please note that the drawings on this website are published with the permission of the artist Mr G. Holdsworth.
​Hemsworth Secondary/Grammar School 1921-67
Headmasters: Major A.G. Jenkinson M.A. (Oxon) and Mr. R.W. Hamilton M.A., M.Litt.
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