I left school at the end of my lower 6th year, and after working for a short time I volunteered for the R.A.F, where I trained for a number of years in electronics, Radar specifically. I can still remember freezing on top of a Valetta, changing an antenna at the time of the Berlin Air… Continue reading Don Bennett (1940-45)
Month: November 2025
Harry Jacques
by John Stockford (left 1944) John Stockford of Redwood City, California writes: “Thanks for the Update …all very interesting. I didn’t recognise the refurbished Chemistry lecture lab where I once saw Harry Jacques set fire to himself after dropping some phosphorus on the floor and then scuffing it with his shoe. The flames shot up… Continue reading Harry Jacques
Mr McCready
by Bryan Beames (1945-50) Bryan Beames (1945-50) of Fielding, New Zealand 5600, writes: “Thanks for the update on the web. I had hoped to see a reference to Mr. McCready at some stage and also to the student teachers about whom I wrote some time ago. As I said at the time, one of the… Continue reading Mr McCready
COHS in the late 1940s
by Bryan Beames (1945-50) Bryan Beames (1945-50), now living in New Zealand, reminisces: Living in Cowley (I knew Alan Trinder who lived in the next street) I attended St. Christopher’s School and passed the scholarship exam, the last time it was held I believe before it became the 11 plus exam. My parents duly received… Continue reading COHS in the late 1940s
The Wilson Boys
by Chris Wilson (1951-57) Chris Wilson (1951-57) writes: “I am particularly pleased to read the list of School Officers 1958-59 on page 11 of N1 featuring my younger brother, Peter Gradwell Wilson, as School Captain and House Captain of Lawrence House. Peter and I were born in India and set sail with our parents from… Continue reading The Wilson Boys
The COHS Double Bass
by Philip Gammage (1947-54) Philip Gammage (1947-54) writes: “Does anyone know what happened to the COHS Double bass? I played it (on loan from school) until 1954, when I left school. It was a plain ‘German style” four string bass, with sloping shoulders and a flat back…no provenance inside. It had been played before me… Continue reading The COHS Double Bass
Tony Howkins
TONY HOWKINS & TONY (ARCH) ARGYLL IN OZ Arch writes: Tony Howkins lived near to me at Cumnor Hill. We worked together at the Sir Wm. Dunn School of Pathology under Lord Florey. We came to Oz on the same sloop in the same cabin to work at the Australian National University. We were both… Continue reading Tony Howkins
Reg Allen
More about Mr A R ALLEN From the Oxford School Phoenix Magazine No 7. Mr REG ALLEN (Ed: At last we know his Christian name!) was appointed in 1928 to look after the school laboratories. Even when a new Biology lab was added, he took on the extra load willingly and also found time to… Continue reading Reg Allen
John P Winterton
P JOHN WINTERTON joined the staff in 1963. As a young member of the Mathematics staff, he taught Statistics throughout the Sixth Form, before leaving Oxford School “for the healthier air of Weston-Super-Mare.”
E J ‘Tich’ Wright
Ralph Baer (1941-45) remembers in particular TICH WRIGHT: “with his slow, slightly stately walk and way of speaking, very enthusiastically about the languages he taught.”