In February last year, I received a request from a parishioner in Pulborough. The lady, a friend of John ‘JAD’ Davison had been tasked with making and embroidering a kneeler to celebrate John’s years…

This collection of pen and ink drawings of characters from an O.T.C. Camp, were sent to Major ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, who subsequently left them in a non-descript brown envelope, to be discovered, whilst r…

The School Press was started in December, 1932 from a room opposite the Music School. Its last home was a room in the new classroom block, built when ‘The Fish’ was demolished in 1969. The booklet w…

Cataloguing the items from one of the OBs boxes was a task over two days, as anything that had the remotest of connections had been ‘popped in’ the box for safe keeping. Amongst the array of old env…

It isn’t just the school buildings that have stood the test of time, as these photographs show. The wisteria is in evidence in the photograph of Dr Fry (Headmaster 1888 - 1911), standing on the steps…

This lovely green glass bottle, with the marble (quite a rarity), originally contained lemonade produced by a local firm – H.Lee & Sons (Minerals) Ltd. The business was run by Henry Lee and his sons …

W. ‘Willie’ Scott was a Master at Berkhamsted from 1905. He was commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters in 1915, returning to teach at Berkhamsted in December 1918.                   This slim vol…

2014 marks the 300yr Anniversary of the Hanoverian Dynasty and the Historic Royal Palaces are celebrating with the Gorgeous Georges exhibitions. The School has, for many years, been the custodian of …