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With six boxes of assorted items piled up at the end of my desk, the plan was to loosely sort before we broke up for Easter. With a few distractions, the task was completed and I’m now in the process…

With the exam season upon us and interest around the school for anything 1950s, here are examples of papers from that decade. The results card, an actual postcard, was addressed and posted out, with …

Over the winter of 2019-2020, images from the archive at Sutton Hoo were digitised in their entirety for the first time. The images, captured by Mercie Lack and OB Barbara Wagstaff (1909), were taken…

Another title added to the archive collection of books written by or about Old Berkhamstedians. The founder of the Special Boat Service was Roger Courtney MC, OB Uppers 1919. 

Roman Kemp (Incents, 2011): Are You Really Ok? Capital DJ Roman Kemp has achieved much success, most recently with his newly published book. Roman's life turned upside down when his best friend and p…

Two connections to Berkhamsted school on the stage; one close to home, the other in London. The first; Mrs Gunary (former Director of Performing Arts Development) had obviously had a major clear out …

Comparison photographs of the enclosing of the Newcroft grounds; the first two show the posts and fencing along the wall in Mill Street, with the junior boys and masters cheering on the House Long Ru…

With banks becoming a rare sight on the high street landscape, these recent finds are a reminder of how certain financial transactions were handled in the latter part of the 19th century. The two ban…

The first picture, c.1983, shows the ‘new’ Computer laboratory, located in Newcroft. The article in the Berkhamstedian, tells us that the laboratory had fourteen ‘Apple’ instruments, linked to the O…

Science features as the comparison in this update. The three photographs date from 1904 to the present day. Revd. Arthur Cole, a Cambridge graduate, was the Senior Science Master 1889-1911 and the fi…

Our album collection always throws up some fascinating glimpses of the past and the Prefects and OBs vs School pictures are certainly contenders for Then & Now.               The young gentleman se…

Berkhamsted School’s first Sergeant-Major, John Ballam, who served with the Ashridge Volunteer Rifle Corps as an instructor c.1900s Fast forward to January, 2002 when CSM Carter joined Berkhamsted f…