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This decorated cricket stump was dropped off at my office just before the summer holidays (see photo gallery below story). It has been split in two, with hinges at each end to allow it to fully open,…

CHARLES RIDLEY PAWSEY A further addition to the archive category ~ Books written by or about Old Berkhamstedians.   To War With The Old Gent ~ Written by Nicholas Lambert. The story of the 1/8th Batt…

  A British Hero of the Holocaust. An auction lot came to the attention of the Old Berkhamstedians in early November. Noonans Mayfair auction house were offering for sale a collection of medals; cata…

  Eyewitness at Dieppe is a retelling of Canada’s worst military disaster. The original account was entitled Rehearsal for Invasion, a wartime bestseller written by Wallace Reyburn OB Lowers 1929. W…

Robert Goodall established a chemist’s shop in Leeds in 1853 and five years later partnered with two chemists, William Powell and Henry Backhouse. They began to make relish from a family recipe and b…

Alan Pennington joined Berkhamsted School as a boarder in 1931. He was an excellent all-round sportsman, representing the school in both the 1st XI Cricket and 1st XV Rugby teams, but his particular …

After leaving Berkhamsted School and serving in the First World War, Bill Tilman spent time in Kenya as a coffee grower. Here, he met Eric Shipton and his interest in climbing began. Tilman turned do…

Lady Clementine Churchill married Winston Churchill, then a young politician, in 1908. During the First World War, Lady Churchill organised canteens for munitions works in factories in North East Lo…

After graduating with a degree in Zoology from Cambridge University, Colin Bertram took part in several scientific expeditions, including a trip to East Greenland and a nine-month study of coral reef…

Not only did Graham Greene attend Berkhamsted School for some years, his father Charles Greene was Headmaster of the school from 1911 to 1927. After studying at Oxford, Greene worked as a journalist …

After being taken prisoner by the Germans in August 1914, Hardy wasted no time in trying to escape from the POW camps and was successful in five of these attempts.  Some of Hardy's more daring escap…

Marjory Stephenson attended Berkhamsted School for Girls from the age of 11. Here, unlike many girls' schools at the time, she was able to study science. In 1903, Stephenson went to Newnham College, …