The Noticeboard (4)
Started 20.11.2024
Updated 16.12.2024
Started 20.11.2024
Updated 16.12.2024

16.12.2024
In case you missed it.
Melvyn got in touch .........
Hi, Dave.
What a brilliant archive you and Sheila have here. I asked my granddaughter to look up my school when she had finished showing me pictures of her new school. I was pleasantly surprised to find your site with all the information gathered in one place. The change from H.G.S. to Hemsworth High School happened while I was a pupil there. I still say H.G.S. when asked about my education. I think that the best thing that I gained from school was an inquiring mind. Even now, I still need to know Why? When? and How? I located the only school photograph of me in existence 1 Normans 1964-1965. Thank you for that. I wonder what happened to everyone else, occasionally. Looking back I wish I had been a more diligent pupil, especially in languages. I still refer to Latin, French and Esperanto, all learned at Hemsworth. Quite regularly now I hear younger people saying "I cannot remember that! I haven't been in school for x years." and yet I retain much of the principles and facts installed as part of my education. I'm on Facebook with Hemsworth Grammar School listed as my secondary education. No doubt I will be browsing the site again. I'll PDF my school report if you think it would add anything.
Many thanks and regards,
Melvyn Thomas.
Sept 13, 2013
Dear Melvyn,
Thank you for contacting the site and for sharing some of your thoughts about HGS. Thank you also for the "pdf" offer. I will bear that in mind. If you would like to add any memories in text form, just send them in to us.
Best wishes,
Dave
Hi, Dave.
Looking at the school photos it's amazing what names you remember and what you forget. People who you met everyday but cannot now put a name to them. Most lads just called each other by nickname more than anything else. Proper names were for registration. Or maybe we remember people because some went on to be more notable in our later lives.
What HGS left me with is a broad base of knowledge, a good amount of confidence and a desire to find out how things worked. For this I am grateful. These things alone have made sure that I can solve most of the problems that I have encountered, by returning to the firm foundation provided. I didn't realise it at the time, but I have done for many years. As part of my job I give training courses. One of the PowerPoint slides includes my education and the School Motto "Labor Ipse Voluptas" and I can honestly say, most of the time it has.
Melvyn Thomas.
Oct 2, 2013
In case you missed it.
Melvyn got in touch .........
Hi, Dave.
What a brilliant archive you and Sheila have here. I asked my granddaughter to look up my school when she had finished showing me pictures of her new school. I was pleasantly surprised to find your site with all the information gathered in one place. The change from H.G.S. to Hemsworth High School happened while I was a pupil there. I still say H.G.S. when asked about my education. I think that the best thing that I gained from school was an inquiring mind. Even now, I still need to know Why? When? and How? I located the only school photograph of me in existence 1 Normans 1964-1965. Thank you for that. I wonder what happened to everyone else, occasionally. Looking back I wish I had been a more diligent pupil, especially in languages. I still refer to Latin, French and Esperanto, all learned at Hemsworth. Quite regularly now I hear younger people saying "I cannot remember that! I haven't been in school for x years." and yet I retain much of the principles and facts installed as part of my education. I'm on Facebook with Hemsworth Grammar School listed as my secondary education. No doubt I will be browsing the site again. I'll PDF my school report if you think it would add anything.
Many thanks and regards,
Melvyn Thomas.
Sept 13, 2013
Dear Melvyn,
Thank you for contacting the site and for sharing some of your thoughts about HGS. Thank you also for the "pdf" offer. I will bear that in mind. If you would like to add any memories in text form, just send them in to us.
Best wishes,
Dave
Hi, Dave.
Looking at the school photos it's amazing what names you remember and what you forget. People who you met everyday but cannot now put a name to them. Most lads just called each other by nickname more than anything else. Proper names were for registration. Or maybe we remember people because some went on to be more notable in our later lives.
What HGS left me with is a broad base of knowledge, a good amount of confidence and a desire to find out how things worked. For this I am grateful. These things alone have made sure that I can solve most of the problems that I have encountered, by returning to the firm foundation provided. I didn't realise it at the time, but I have done for many years. As part of my job I give training courses. One of the PowerPoint slides includes my education and the School Motto "Labor Ipse Voluptas" and I can honestly say, most of the time it has.
Melvyn Thomas.
Oct 2, 2013

16.12.2024
In case you missed it.
In case you missed it.
Eric Jones
A comment from Eric
I can still remember my first school dinner at HGS. The pudding was apple dumpling which as I recall never appeared on the menu again all the time I was there. As one entered the Dining Hall, the girls were on the right and the boy’s were on the left with the first table on the right being Staff. Each table was headed by a Prefect and seated 12-14 with 1st Form at the bottom acting as skivvies to clear away dishes and to scavenge for extra food if possible. There was an excess of boys over girls, so I remember being a skivvy on a girls’ table headed by Margaret Townend, whose photograph appears on the website. Main meals tended to be of the meat and two veg. type (quantity rather than quality) with Shepherds Pie well to the fore. Puddings were of the following variety: Wooden Leg - baked jam roll - a popular favourite and scivvies were guaranteed the Knob end - all pastry and no jam; Spotted Dick - Sultana Sponge; Jelly and Custard in summer; Frog Spawn - sago; and always rice pudding. Custard was eaten at one’s peril and regularly we had the infamous Black Death - stewed prunes.
As I remember the school record for eating prunes was 41, by a lad from Grimethorpe called Johnny Orange. The skivvies were bringing in prunes from all over the room when he went for the record - I cannot recall it being broken while I was there.
The Staff menu was much better than ours and when their trolley trundled from the kitchen to their table, it was like a scene from Oliver. As First Formers, we were amazed at the amount of food Mr Waters, Maths Teacher, was able to get onto his fork! There was a twist to school dinners in that you could take your own if you wished. These were consumed in the Domestic Science room at the end of the corridor next to the Main Hall. Crockery was supplied from the main Dining Hall. It was a Prefect’s job to collect and return a basketful of this every day. I had a spell of about a year doing my own food and I remember that dried egg sandwiches figured prominently. As a Prefect, I finally graduated to having a table of my own in the Dining Hall, but the only skivvy I can remember was a cheeky young First Former by the name of Eric Sale. To be fair, the kitchen staff worked miracles really, especially as things became in short supply towards the end of the war and the early years of peace. If I remember correctly, the head cook was Mrs. Cliffe who was the wife of the School Caretaker.
Eric Jones, HGS 1942-49
I can still remember my first school dinner at HGS. The pudding was apple dumpling which as I recall never appeared on the menu again all the time I was there. As one entered the Dining Hall, the girls were on the right and the boy’s were on the left with the first table on the right being Staff. Each table was headed by a Prefect and seated 12-14 with 1st Form at the bottom acting as skivvies to clear away dishes and to scavenge for extra food if possible. There was an excess of boys over girls, so I remember being a skivvy on a girls’ table headed by Margaret Townend, whose photograph appears on the website. Main meals tended to be of the meat and two veg. type (quantity rather than quality) with Shepherds Pie well to the fore. Puddings were of the following variety: Wooden Leg - baked jam roll - a popular favourite and scivvies were guaranteed the Knob end - all pastry and no jam; Spotted Dick - Sultana Sponge; Jelly and Custard in summer; Frog Spawn - sago; and always rice pudding. Custard was eaten at one’s peril and regularly we had the infamous Black Death - stewed prunes.
As I remember the school record for eating prunes was 41, by a lad from Grimethorpe called Johnny Orange. The skivvies were bringing in prunes from all over the room when he went for the record - I cannot recall it being broken while I was there.
The Staff menu was much better than ours and when their trolley trundled from the kitchen to their table, it was like a scene from Oliver. As First Formers, we were amazed at the amount of food Mr Waters, Maths Teacher, was able to get onto his fork! There was a twist to school dinners in that you could take your own if you wished. These were consumed in the Domestic Science room at the end of the corridor next to the Main Hall. Crockery was supplied from the main Dining Hall. It was a Prefect’s job to collect and return a basketful of this every day. I had a spell of about a year doing my own food and I remember that dried egg sandwiches figured prominently. As a Prefect, I finally graduated to having a table of my own in the Dining Hall, but the only skivvy I can remember was a cheeky young First Former by the name of Eric Sale. To be fair, the kitchen staff worked miracles really, especially as things became in short supply towards the end of the war and the early years of peace. If I remember correctly, the head cook was Mrs. Cliffe who was the wife of the School Caretaker.
Eric Jones, HGS 1942-49

13.12.2024
In case you missed it.
In case you missed it.
Melvyn Midgley
On Rough Books
"In us rough books, sir?" How often has this heart-wringing, impious cry penetrated the silence of our industrious classroom? To the conscientious scholar who wishes to survive successfully in the teeming world of knowledge, his rough book is as necessary as rope to a mountaineer. Yet this distinguished volume is indiscriminately treated with indifference, violence, and a totally sacrilegious attitude.
What artist, having youth's inventive genius, has not perceived the nucleus of a masterpiece in his sacred rough book? His lucid, careless sketches, conceived in a moment of lassitude in a lesson, display a virginal immaturity and simplicity seldom observed outside our protected community. What ambitious young lover has failed to embellish his rough book with the name of his sweetheart, entwining it with hearts and arrows, or merely exhibiting it in an undulating frame of incredible, complexity? To the diffident, his rough book contains a private, personal display of conquests, ideas and mistakes.
The rough book is a womb for ideals and ideas. Here they are conceived, fostered and developed to the ultimate desire of their creator. Sadly, many of them are never scanned by any but their creators, but the significance lies in the fact that the ideas are original; the shy, awkward youth is mentally progressing to a virile maturity. This, in itself, is good, but the reasons why many of the ideas born in the rough book die in the rough book are nauseating: an exposure of one's true feelings is frowned on by one's peers as absurd, effeminate and unfashionable.
In spite of the material and spiritual advantages offered by the rough book, it is continually spurned and mutilated by its smug, repugnant owners. This symbolises the lack of culture, and the idiotic spread of the 'I'm all right, Jack' attitude so fashionable in school boys and girls. This must be halted.
Scholars of the world, unite! Culture is on the decline so henceforth let us set an example to our misguided, if fashionable peers. Begin a renaissance let the reverent cry of 'In OUR rough books, sir?' herald the advent of a sensible attitude to life and what it has to offer.
Midgley, M., 5S, Holgate
"In us rough books, sir?" How often has this heart-wringing, impious cry penetrated the silence of our industrious classroom? To the conscientious scholar who wishes to survive successfully in the teeming world of knowledge, his rough book is as necessary as rope to a mountaineer. Yet this distinguished volume is indiscriminately treated with indifference, violence, and a totally sacrilegious attitude.
What artist, having youth's inventive genius, has not perceived the nucleus of a masterpiece in his sacred rough book? His lucid, careless sketches, conceived in a moment of lassitude in a lesson, display a virginal immaturity and simplicity seldom observed outside our protected community. What ambitious young lover has failed to embellish his rough book with the name of his sweetheart, entwining it with hearts and arrows, or merely exhibiting it in an undulating frame of incredible, complexity? To the diffident, his rough book contains a private, personal display of conquests, ideas and mistakes.
The rough book is a womb for ideals and ideas. Here they are conceived, fostered and developed to the ultimate desire of their creator. Sadly, many of them are never scanned by any but their creators, but the significance lies in the fact that the ideas are original; the shy, awkward youth is mentally progressing to a virile maturity. This, in itself, is good, but the reasons why many of the ideas born in the rough book die in the rough book are nauseating: an exposure of one's true feelings is frowned on by one's peers as absurd, effeminate and unfashionable.
In spite of the material and spiritual advantages offered by the rough book, it is continually spurned and mutilated by its smug, repugnant owners. This symbolises the lack of culture, and the idiotic spread of the 'I'm all right, Jack' attitude so fashionable in school boys and girls. This must be halted.
Scholars of the world, unite! Culture is on the decline so henceforth let us set an example to our misguided, if fashionable peers. Begin a renaissance let the reverent cry of 'In OUR rough books, sir?' herald the advent of a sensible attitude to life and what it has to offer.
Midgley, M., 5S, Holgate

04.12.2024
1. The page "Lists" now covers Years 1955-1967 and is considerd to be complete.
2. Below are the most recent Monthly Trends in HGS website viewing.
1. The page "Lists" now covers Years 1955-1967 and is considerd to be complete.
2. Below are the most recent Monthly Trends in HGS website viewing.
Page Views:
The number of pages that visitors viewed on a given day. A single visitor may view one or more pages.
Unique Visitors:
The number of individual visitors who came to the site in a specified time-period. Note that the "unique visitors" number should be smaller than the "page views" number since one person may visit multiple pages and generate multiple page views.
Top Active Pages:
The pages on the website with the most visits. The Home page (/) is likely to generate the most visits. The index page controls access to the pages within the index. Whether the pages are "attractive" or "interesting" is subjective and dependent upon the website visitor.
The number of pages that visitors viewed on a given day. A single visitor may view one or more pages.
Unique Visitors:
The number of individual visitors who came to the site in a specified time-period. Note that the "unique visitors" number should be smaller than the "page views" number since one person may visit multiple pages and generate multiple page views.
Top Active Pages:
The pages on the website with the most visits. The Home page (/) is likely to generate the most visits. The index page controls access to the pages within the index. Whether the pages are "attractive" or "interesting" is subjective and dependent upon the website visitor.

03.12.2024
The new page "Lists" has been developed further. It is now dealing with 4 aspects of HGS (Speech Day, Prefects, Prizes and Speech Day Music) in the Sixties Decade.
The new page "Lists" has been developed further. It is now dealing with 4 aspects of HGS (Speech Day, Prefects, Prizes and Speech Day Music) in the Sixties Decade.
1962-63
HGS Head Boy and Head Girl
HGS Head Boy and Head Girl

02.12.2024
"Who did what?" A selection of pages from the Sports Day programmes of 1965,1966 and 1967 have been added to the site. To find them go to Sports Days on the main site menu. Mr Collette retired in 1965 after 40 year at HGS. Mr Hamilton retired in 1967 (Xmas) after 30 years at HGS as Headmaster.
"Who did what?" A selection of pages from the Sports Day programmes of 1965,1966 and 1967 have been added to the site. To find them go to Sports Days on the main site menu. Mr Collette retired in 1965 after 40 year at HGS. Mr Hamilton retired in 1967 (Xmas) after 30 years at HGS as Headmaster.

25.11.2024
The Staff Play 1965
As you can see below, The Staff Plays were not small undertakings. They were also managed and performed with pleasing professionalism. A school is a dynamic organisation which meant, in this case, that play participants usually changed each year - except Mr Hamilton. He displayed his leadership qualities even in extra-curricular activities. In those days the teachers perhaps had more freedom to just teach. This possibly created a more relaxed and happy Staff which would have been more inclined to voluntarily offer an extra activity to the school's student body.
Dave
The Staff Play 1965
As you can see below, The Staff Plays were not small undertakings. They were also managed and performed with pleasing professionalism. A school is a dynamic organisation which meant, in this case, that play participants usually changed each year - except Mr Hamilton. He displayed his leadership qualities even in extra-curricular activities. In those days the teachers perhaps had more freedom to just teach. This possibly created a more relaxed and happy Staff which would have been more inclined to voluntarily offer an extra activity to the school's student body.
Dave
The Staff Play 1965
The Zodiac in the Establishment
The Zodiac in the Establishment
Miss Evans
Producer
Producer
The Cast

This year's play, "The Zodiac in the Establishment" by Bridget Boland was a comedy as entertaining as last year's and well received in spite of its strange subject. The play is centred around John, who, despite his humble position as a new laboratory assistant in a Government Research Establishment, manages to create quite a stir and brings chaos into the lives of his colleagues. John is immortal, a result of having mistakenly drunk the elixir of life when he was an assistant to an alchemist several centuries previously. He has since held many jobs in many countries but has never stopped searching for the antidote. John is exhausted from the effort of keeping pace with the changing world and the play really consists of his search for death.
Although the theme seems tragic, the play is, in fact, very light-hearted and has an unusual twist at the end. Whilst the characters are both amusing and fascinating. Bob Tunstall is John's superior, a witty if somewhat quick-tempered man. Mr. Connolly was excellent in the part and responded well to the varied situations which be had to face. Mary Tunstall, his wife, also works at the Establishment, although this forces her to leave their son in the care of a day nursery. This arrangement coupled with Bob's lack of ambition, causes continual bickering between the two of them. Miss Alliott, as Mary, was very convincing and the quality of her performance whilst quarrelling with Bob caught the imagination of many pupils in the audience.
Leslie Firestone is in charge of security. He is good-natured, but his military background is very much in evidence and so is his abundant sense of humour which fails to amuse anyone except himself. He is rather gullible, lacking scientific knowledge, among other things, and in general is the subject of much ridicule. Mr. Wilkinson's characterisation of Leslie was perfect - so good that the mere mention of the name had the audience smiling in anticipation.
Sir Cecil Fortescue, affectionately known as ''cissy", is the head of staff, an ''unflappable'' almost docile man, adept at the more usual type of internal politics. Mr. Hamilton handled the part competently and seemed - as would be expected from his many appearances - to be completely at ease in his part.
Ted Blake is a common or garden physicist who seems to have a knack for stepping into the middle of trouble. He stumbles into the Firestones' domestic problems, has to meddle in the feud between Bob and Leslie, and starts a quarrel between John and Bob. Despite the fact that the part was a small one, Mr. Parkinson gave a good performance and was at his "embarrassed" best.
The most important character, John, is a fascinating person if only by virtue of his background, but it is to Mr. Bavister's credit that his interpretation was such that the audience was completely in sympathy with him. The character offers unlimited scope - tragic, yet amusing; worldly, yet meek - so that there are many varied moods to be caught, and Mr. Bavister dealt with the complex characterisation very adequately.
The play is set in two entirely different places, at the laboratory and at the garage of Bob's home, and it would be a serious omission not to mention the hard work which the stage managers, Messrs. Cooling and Smith, put into this very complex set. They did a fine job, complete with all 'mod cons' and moving parts. The stage-hands also performed sterling work in the persons of Tate, Gundill, Johnson and Rayner. Further thanks must be given to Mr. Warren for providing sound effects and lighting, to Mr. Burnell who provided very authentic decor, and to Miss Tate who was in charge of the wardrobe. Mr. Plummer, assisted by M. Wigham and Moody, struggled manfully with the numerous properties during Miss Ward's absence. The make-up was in the care of Mr. Burnell. Miss Williams and Mr. Warren, assisted by E. Jones, C. Longfield and P. Ogley. Mr. Pacy proved to be a very efficient Business Manager. There are many others whose names are not mentioned but who must also be thanked for contributing to the smooth running of the performances. Above all we must congratulate Miss Evans on her unbounded patience and skill which produced such successful entertainment for everyone.
Christine Longfield, U6A
Although the theme seems tragic, the play is, in fact, very light-hearted and has an unusual twist at the end. Whilst the characters are both amusing and fascinating. Bob Tunstall is John's superior, a witty if somewhat quick-tempered man. Mr. Connolly was excellent in the part and responded well to the varied situations which be had to face. Mary Tunstall, his wife, also works at the Establishment, although this forces her to leave their son in the care of a day nursery. This arrangement coupled with Bob's lack of ambition, causes continual bickering between the two of them. Miss Alliott, as Mary, was very convincing and the quality of her performance whilst quarrelling with Bob caught the imagination of many pupils in the audience.
Leslie Firestone is in charge of security. He is good-natured, but his military background is very much in evidence and so is his abundant sense of humour which fails to amuse anyone except himself. He is rather gullible, lacking scientific knowledge, among other things, and in general is the subject of much ridicule. Mr. Wilkinson's characterisation of Leslie was perfect - so good that the mere mention of the name had the audience smiling in anticipation.
Sir Cecil Fortescue, affectionately known as ''cissy", is the head of staff, an ''unflappable'' almost docile man, adept at the more usual type of internal politics. Mr. Hamilton handled the part competently and seemed - as would be expected from his many appearances - to be completely at ease in his part.
Ted Blake is a common or garden physicist who seems to have a knack for stepping into the middle of trouble. He stumbles into the Firestones' domestic problems, has to meddle in the feud between Bob and Leslie, and starts a quarrel between John and Bob. Despite the fact that the part was a small one, Mr. Parkinson gave a good performance and was at his "embarrassed" best.
The most important character, John, is a fascinating person if only by virtue of his background, but it is to Mr. Bavister's credit that his interpretation was such that the audience was completely in sympathy with him. The character offers unlimited scope - tragic, yet amusing; worldly, yet meek - so that there are many varied moods to be caught, and Mr. Bavister dealt with the complex characterisation very adequately.
The play is set in two entirely different places, at the laboratory and at the garage of Bob's home, and it would be a serious omission not to mention the hard work which the stage managers, Messrs. Cooling and Smith, put into this very complex set. They did a fine job, complete with all 'mod cons' and moving parts. The stage-hands also performed sterling work in the persons of Tate, Gundill, Johnson and Rayner. Further thanks must be given to Mr. Warren for providing sound effects and lighting, to Mr. Burnell who provided very authentic decor, and to Miss Tate who was in charge of the wardrobe. Mr. Plummer, assisted by M. Wigham and Moody, struggled manfully with the numerous properties during Miss Ward's absence. The make-up was in the care of Mr. Burnell. Miss Williams and Mr. Warren, assisted by E. Jones, C. Longfield and P. Ogley. Mr. Pacy proved to be a very efficient Business Manager. There are many others whose names are not mentioned but who must also be thanked for contributing to the smooth running of the performances. Above all we must congratulate Miss Evans on her unbounded patience and skill which produced such successful entertainment for everyone.
Christine Longfield, U6A
Behind the scenes
Stage Hands
Assistant Electrician
Jack Burbeck
Properties Assistants
Margaret Wigham
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Steven Moody
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Make Up Assistants
The Business Manager
Mr Pacy
22.11.2024
The Noticeboards' "Open Format"
On the site's previous Noticeboard (pre 06.11.2023), the information displayed was limited to a date followed by a brief statement of any changes to the HGS site. The present Noticeboards 1, 2, 3 and 4 also list any changes to the website but will, in addition, display widely varying items.
Dave
The Noticeboards' "Open Format"
On the site's previous Noticeboard (pre 06.11.2023), the information displayed was limited to a date followed by a brief statement of any changes to the HGS site. The present Noticeboards 1, 2, 3 and 4 also list any changes to the website but will, in addition, display widely varying items.
Dave
An example which has been taken from a previous Noticeboard
(From) Noticeboard 2013
28.12.2013
Prefects 1946-47 is now on the site. The pages of the Literary and Debating Society, the Radio Society and the Scientific Society have been updated with pupil photographs.
27.12.2013
The Activities Clubs and Societies are being updated with photographs of the contributors. So far the Clubs: Art, Chess, Esperanto, Friday, Judo and Moor and Mountain have been updated as have the Current Affairs, Film and Historical Societies.
23.12.2013
Four brief reports have been added to the site: Mr. Hamilton retires (Staff page), Speech Day 1955, "Taps" at HGS (Buildings and Grounds page) and the Hilmians play "Penelope" (1932).
19.12.2013
The Panoramic photographs have been converted to pdf. They will now be a little clearer when enlarged.
16.12.2013
Forms L6A, U6S, 5T, 4T and 5G from 1957-58 have been added to the site. Photos of the 1957-58 Assistant Prefects and the 1957-58 Madrigal Choir are now on the site.
(From) Noticeboard 2013
28.12.2013
Prefects 1946-47 is now on the site. The pages of the Literary and Debating Society, the Radio Society and the Scientific Society have been updated with pupil photographs.
27.12.2013
The Activities Clubs and Societies are being updated with photographs of the contributors. So far the Clubs: Art, Chess, Esperanto, Friday, Judo and Moor and Mountain have been updated as have the Current Affairs, Film and Historical Societies.
23.12.2013
Four brief reports have been added to the site: Mr. Hamilton retires (Staff page), Speech Day 1955, "Taps" at HGS (Buildings and Grounds page) and the Hilmians play "Penelope" (1932).
19.12.2013
The Panoramic photographs have been converted to pdf. They will now be a little clearer when enlarged.
16.12.2013
Forms L6A, U6S, 5T, 4T and 5G from 1957-58 have been added to the site. Photos of the 1957-58 Assistant Prefects and the 1957-58 Madrigal Choir are now on the site.

20.11.2024
"Noticeboard 4" is a new page and will be developed in the coming days.
"Noticeboard 4" is a new page and will be developed in the coming days.
Here is a Happy Days "as we were" photograph from 1958 of excited pupils and teachers on Hemsworth Station. This was the start of the HGS School Holiday to Italy.
Dave
Dave
Happy Days
Waiting for the steam train.
1958
Mr Leonard (right) and his HGS School Holiday Group 1958 on Hemsworth Station.
1958
Mr Leonard (right) and his HGS School Holiday Group 1958 on Hemsworth Station.

A party of 52 senior pupils led by Mr. Leonard and five members of staff will leave Hemsworth on August 20th for a cultural tour of Italy. The total cost of the tour is estimated at £38-10s per pupil, and this includes transport, accommodation, meals, First Class travel between London and Basle and a full day's excursion from Rome to Naples and Pompeii. The party will travel through London, Folkestone, Boulogne, Basle and the St. Gothard Pass to Venice, and after visiting Florence, will spend five days in Rome. On the thirteenth day of the tour we shall leave for Hemsworth again, to complete a journey of nearly 3,000 miles.
P.A. Makings, 5A
Ann's Fifth Form is shown below.
P.A. Makings, 5A
Ann's Fifth Form is shown below.
Form 5A 1957-58
Photo from Janet Noble. Thank you, Janet.
Back Row L-R: Sam Whitehouse, John Cooper, Peter Richmond, Jim Evison
Third Row L-R: Ann Brear, Christine Walters, Sylvia Ward, Ann Kilvington, Molly Wright, Pam Hall, Sylvia Gaskell
Second Row L-R: Shirley Challender, June Barraclough, Margaret Penny, Diane Wood, Patricia Rontree, Janet Noble, Janet Wines, Helen Wilkinson
Front Row L-R: Norah Carlile, Gwen Cavanagh, Dora Lumby, Pauline Barratt, Mr. E.G. Lock, Malcolm Wilford, Ann Makings, M. Shaw, Patricia Foster
Form Prize awarded to Diane Wood.
Back Row L-R: Sam Whitehouse, John Cooper, Peter Richmond, Jim Evison
Third Row L-R: Ann Brear, Christine Walters, Sylvia Ward, Ann Kilvington, Molly Wright, Pam Hall, Sylvia Gaskell
Second Row L-R: Shirley Challender, June Barraclough, Margaret Penny, Diane Wood, Patricia Rontree, Janet Noble, Janet Wines, Helen Wilkinson
Front Row L-R: Norah Carlile, Gwen Cavanagh, Dora Lumby, Pauline Barratt, Mr. E.G. Lock, Malcolm Wilford, Ann Makings, M. Shaw, Patricia Foster
Form Prize awarded to Diane Wood.
Keeping cool when out and about was very important.
L-R: Ruth, Elaine and Susan
L-R: Ruth, Elaine and Susan
The adults on the holiday set a fine example of how to keep cool.
L-R: Mr Leonard (Geography), Mrs Leonard, Mr Wharton (Latin, Italian), Miss Wimpenny (Mathematics), Miss Harris (Geography), Miss Ward (Geography), Mr Swinbank (Latin, Greek).
Comment

Melvyn Thomas
Mr Swinbank (left) supervising. I hope they all had a good time.
Mr Swinbank (left) supervising. I hope they all had a good time.

Ruth Ashley Scholey
I enjoyed every minute of it!
I enjoyed every minute of it!