The City of Oxford High School for Boys
– the story of a successful town and gown project 1881-1966
Submitted by his contemporary, Alan Trinder (1944-51)
It was traditional at the High School for the sixth form boys to indulge in ‘rags’. These were more or less harmless pranks, outside of the school rules but generally tolerated by the staff as an expression of youthful high spirits.
Continue reading “The perfect rag”From an article in The Times for 2 Dec 1971
DR ROBERT LAWRENCE Missionary in China
W.G.B. writes:
Courage and abiding love of service to God and country and his family, dominated Robert Lawrence, who died recently at Swanage.
Continue reading “Robert Lawrence (1896-1904)”I was one of the few ‘ working class’ boys, entering the school in 1942, and streamed into the ‘1B’ class. I was the son of a carpenter. Others included David Cripps, whose father was a postman and Gerald Webb. The three of us were moved into the ‘A’ class in the third year.
Continue reading “‘Working Class’ Boys”I found the article on COHS in the fifties by Mike Brogden of particular interest. It was also of the greatest credit to the Editor that he should print an article in which the nostalgia was tempered by realism. As a result it has prompted me to add some comments in regard to some of the subjects raised.
Continue reading “Nostalgia Tempered by Realism”A Polemical View
This post caused a real stir when Mike Chew published it on the old website, and you will find several responses from other boys linked to it in later posts.
Continue reading “COHS in the 1950s”Reminiscences of Wartime COHS Schooldays and Beyond by Ernest (Em) Ames (1941-46)
Firstly I was not an outstanding student academically but the “Oxford Education” has stood me in good stead through the years opening doors that would have been otherwise closed to me.
Continue reading “COHS in the early 1940s”Memories of the Early Sixties by John Geach:
I was not happy at school and in general an unsatisfactory pupil. Living in St John Street I was the nearest resident to the school that I was aware of – and always late. As a Catholic I did not attend Assembly and in my sixth year “Pongo” sought (typically) to reform my unpunctuality by making me “Late Prefect” – I was indeed still “late”.
Ivan Mazonowicz (Mason since 1957) 1940-46 writes:
There were some fine teachers, eg Harry Jacques (Chemistry), ‘Pongo’ Bodey (Physics), who was my role model when I became a teacher, and ‘Tich’ Wright, among others.
Continue reading “The Early 1940s”Colin Tustin (1951-56) reminisces:
Continue reading “COHS in the early 1950s”