The School in the Fifties

A photograph of the whole school in 1951. Click on the photo to enlarge (large file - 98KB) (Photograph by Ray Studios Ltd - Braintree, Essex)
	A photograph of the 1953 intake. (Photograph by G.F. Addy for The Boston Standard, supplied by Richard Staines - click image for full size photograph)
A photograph of the whole school in 1953. Click on the photo to enlarge (large file - 100KB). (Photograph by Ray Studios Ltd - Braintree, Essex)
A photograph of the whole school in 1954. Click on the photo to enlarge (large file - 98KB). (Photograph by Panoramic Groups Ltd)
	Form 2A (1955). (Photograph supplied by Pete Jeffery, photographer Chas Faulkner - click image for full size photograph)
	Form 2B (1955). (Photograph supplied by Richard Staines, photographer Chas Faulkner - click image for full size photograph)
	Boston Grammar School Speech Day programme (1956)
	Form 1C (1958). (Photograph supplied by Dennis Morley, photographer unknown - click image for full size photograph)
	Form 2B (c1958). (Photograph supplied by Michael Callow, photographer unknown - click image for full size photograph)
A photograph of the whole school in 1958. Click on the photo to enlarge (large file - 124KB). (Photograph by H. Tempest Ltd )
	Form 5C (1959). (Photograph supplied by Gordon Shores, photographer unknown - click image for full size photograph)

A Story from Richard Harris (BGS 1956-1960)

I was at BGS from 1956 to 1960. One of the occurences that made an impression during that period was the enormous effort expended in demolishing the WW2 air-raid shelters which were in a line along the left side of the school viewed from the front. Most were made of a type of concrete that would have survived a nuclear attack and they seemed to need that scale of energy delivered for weeks on end by various means that dispersed most of it in the form of noise. The shelters eventually made way for a new science block (the pride and joy of deputy head Dickson).

Another memorable occurence was the quatercentenary of the founding charter. I can recall the Charter Day Service at the Stump under the benign gaze and rubicund nose of the vicar, Canon Ellis.

A third incident that I recall was the arrival at a speech day (1959) of the head's former commanding officer from Burma. This was when I became aware that Ricketts had been a lieutenant-colonel. His old CO had remained in the army and had risen to become General Sir Francis Festing, GCB, KBE, DSO, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. I remember being disappointed to find that he was an old buffer in a sports jacket with leather patched elbows. This was far from the splendid uniform I had been expecting.