Thoughts about HGS Index
Outside the New Block
14 articles 28.04.2023
Table of contents
1. Respect for that "which was".
2. The HGS System
3. The Cricket Pavilion
​4. Distant Days
5. The Children’s Ten-Hour Day in 1922
6. The First Parents' Day - July 22nd 1922
​7. Mr Jenkinson develops the HGS System 1921-22
8. Garden to Playground? 1926
9. On Leaving School, 1938
10. About the Head Boy's position
Table of contents
1. Storm clouds were gathering
​2. An International Language
3. The Running Track and Yerba Mate
4. A thought and a lovely email
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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