The story of a successful town and gown project
After reading Mike Brogden’s cynical reminiscences of COHS in 1952-59 I found it hard to reconcile his views with those of mine. Could this be the same school? Admittedly, I was there 1940-44 and the headmaster was J.E.Badham but could it have changed that much in ten years?
Continue reading “When did the rot set in?”Encouraging the debate: Lord Philip Hunt sides with Nigel Molden
(Lord) Philip Hunt (1960-67) writes:
I was very interested in Nigel Molden’s piece. Some of my experience chimes with his and I thought you might be interested in some comments.
Continue reading “A sense of superiority”Writer unknown:
“Mr Badham, Headmaster during my time at School, rarely gets a mention in the Newsletters.
Continue reading “Memories of Masters”Stephen Peters (dates?) writes:
Continue reading “Quality of the Teaching”Tony Argyle (1941-46) writes (again with real ink) from Pearce, near Canberra in Australia.
Do you remember putting milk bottles or chalk dusters in the grand piano?
John Corbey (late 1940s) writes:
“The Annexe was adjacent to Gloucester Green, facing Worcester College Gardens.
Continue reading “The Annexe-Morgue-Dispensary Fire”John Gaskin writes:
The precise origins and authorship of the School Song (see Newsletter 4) were never known to more than a tiny handful of people: F C Lay and Jimmy Soulsby are long since dead, and it would be a pity for the knowledge to perish unrecorded with me.
Continue reading “The School Song”Richard Coleman (53-60) writes:
In my memory Malcolm’s most singular claim to fame came during an English lesson in 2A.
Continue reading “Malcolm Williams’ Rare Poetic Talent”When originally published Mike Chew apologised that he had temporarily mislaid the name of the author of this item, but would acknowledge its provenance in due course, which he never did. “Sua culpa”, as he said at the time.
Continue reading “The School in Wartime”Brian Gumm (1940-45) writes:
Looking back over some sixty years or more, my recollection of the COHS in war time was surprise that the process of education proceeded in a more or less orderly fashion with few interruptions due to the war raging across Europe.
Continue reading “COHS in Wartime 1940-45”