Entries by Nigel Thomas

What follows is a further series of extracts from early editions of the School magazine, "The Harveian". These are cullings from the '60s.

The first is from the edition for Spring 1961 and shows that at times, at least, the school was touched by greatness. I doubt whether any other teacher at the school accumulated so many honours, degrees and exalted positions...

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The picture on the right here is a neck-aching view of the vertigo inducing staircase at Grace Hill.

If you have any pictures of school productions, special events, sporting occasions or general tomfoolery, please send them, preferably by e-mail to webmaster@oldharveians.org.uk or by mail c/o Phil Harding at the School.

We'll put them up here on the site and hopefully they'll stir up more than a few fond memories.

Also, don't forget to send us your recollections of school life. We've had some fascinating material sent through to us in the past few weeks, which will appear soon in the newsletter and here on the site in due course.

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Some choice offerings from the Harveian Magazines of 1955.

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The Harvey Grammar School has a considerable archive of photographs and other evidence of the pattern of school life through the ages. I propose, in my dotage, to dip into this once a month to find "stuff" that might be of interest to Old Boys.

The hope is to help to keep the website fresh and also to stir memories sufficiently for some to write into the Editor of the Newsletter or into the website with information on the whereabouts, careers and personal development of those pupils involved.

With some articles, further background information on the events themselves would be welcome. Please feel free to post comments on these or any articles or discuss them in the discussion forum.

We start with extracts from fifty and twenty five years ago.

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Died Krabi, Thailand

You see and hear about disasters in far away places with a generalised concern. Gradually, as the size and scope of the disaster becomes clear, the sense of involvement becomes sharper; along with the suffering of the victims, one becomes aware of friends and relatives who missed being involved by weeks or days or even hours. And then news comes that makes the situation devastatingly personal.

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