City of Oxford School Association
– story of a successful town and gown project 1881-1966
From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LV, ii APRIL 1963 No. 177
School Notes
The weather, they say, is traditionally a topic of conversation for the English. Certainly this term it has frequently been under discussion.
Continue reading “The Winter of 1963”THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE Vol LV, iii JULY 1963 No 178
“The Six’, European Coal and Steel Community, Euratom, Council of Europe – new organizations for a New Europe; novel constructions rising high over the ruins of the Second World War, a war expressive of ancestral feuds and political bigotry allied to a nationalism (not Germany’s alone) that was both self-seeking and self-destroying.
Continue reading “Western Europe 1962”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”The school magazine and Andrew Marr. Mike Chew writes:
Readers may possibly remember that the first edition of our newsletter contained the editorial in the school magazine about the catastrophic winter of 1946/7. What is interesting about this editorial is how it tells of the hardships endured by members of the School.
Continue reading “The Winter of 1946/7 part 2”This article dates from a school magazine in the 1920s and complements another one which speaks of the city wall
One would think that every Oxford High School boy knew the old bastion which still rears its somewhat stained shattered form on the south side of the school playground; yet, strange to say, we found that, when the fact that we were making enquiries about the bastion became generally known, the most frequent question that we were asked was , “What and where is the Bastion?”
Continue reading “The Old Bastion”Alan Trinder (1944-51) has submitted the following poem by Ronnie Barker, which appeared in a school magazine in the late 1940’s. Possibly his first foray into print? It was printed originally as one long text and we have taken the liberty of dividing it up into sense groups, as this makes it easier to read on-screen.
Continue reading “Poem by Ronnie Barker”The school’s WWII Memorial is located in the Oxford Community School (previously the Oxford School, previously to that Southfield School and now the Spires Academy).
Continue reading “The WW2 Memorial”Ron Baker (c.1949) writes:
Further to Ted Bown’s reference to “Journey’s End”, the play was produced by George Wright and performed on 2nd to 5th February 1949. The cast:
Continue reading ““Journey’s End””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”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 support the Science staff and the School.
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