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May 2015

The Exhibition room

The official opening of the Exhibition Room formed part of the Old Berkhamstedians AGM in 2015. In the years since, it has been rearranged …

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Cellar finds

The school cellars have yielded more treasures in the form of two lovely travel trunks. Cleaned of all the…

April 2016

The Cloutman sword

A First World War, George V, 1897 pattern Infantry Officers sword, originally owned by Brett Mackay Cloutman OB Bees 1906. On 6th November 1918 at Pont-sur-Sambre, France, w…

February 2017

Commemorative plaques

Two commemorative plaques have been put in place around the school. The first sits on the staircase in the Music school and tells the story of how the Old Upper Mill was demolis…

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Notable OBs

Marjory Stephenson was the first Berkhamsted School girl to go to Cambridge. In 1945 she was elected as one of the first two women fellows of the Royal Society. With the advent of ‘Stephenson’ the …

July 2017

Kings Chapel

One of two sample pieces by Mark Angus, who created the Chapel window at Kings. With a bespoke frame made by our Estates Department and fixings bought, to match the shapes in the wooden shutters, it …

September 2017

Pavilion clock

The lovely old Clock face (pictured) was one of a pair that sat on the turret of the old cricket pavilion on Chesham Road fields. It was originally dedicated to the memory of Schoolmaster J.S."Taff…

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OB Publications

The Little Big Things - written by Henry Fraser OB Loxwood, 2008 Air Force Blue – features Denys Edgar Mileham OB Adders, 1936, killed in action 1942. For Most Conspicuous Bravery – an autobiography …

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Fry's dog 'Roy'

I see this picture of T C Fry standing outside what is now the archive office, every day and have always wanted to know what his lovely dog was called. Cataloguing a large box of photograph albums ga…

April 2018

OB book collection

Two further additions to the collection of books written by or about Old Berkhamstedians – ‘Mr.Prune on Cotswold’ by Richard Blake Brown, Lowers 1920; a contemporary of Graham Greene and for fa…

October 2018

Berkhamsted boys 1914-18

Our Berkhamsted Boys is an ongoing project, aimed at putting faces to the names of the Berkhamsted boys lost to the Great War. The images that we are able to gather will be made into framed posters. …

December 2018

Additions to the OB book collection

An autobiography entitled Running Free is the latest book from Old Berkhamstedian Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. A slim volume, entitled ‘Man from the Ice’ started life as a Year 6 English homework for the…

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