A History of St George's School, Harpenden

by Pam Weatherley

St George's School, 1982

2nd Edition, 1995

  

This is an attractively presented 48 page booklet, with many pictures and reasonable looking text. There is no index, and pictures of school teams, etc., do not include the names of pupils. The section headings are: Mr Wix's School; The move to Harpenden [1887]; Building the Chapel [1891]; [The school as it was moved away in 1906, and eventually became associated with Haileybury]; The Keswick origins; The early days [1907 - the new school in the old buildings]; The Great War Years; Peace-time progress; Twenty-one years; Gifts and Offerings; Mr Grant retires; Dr Watts takes over; After the Second World War; The appointment of Mr Gedge; Changes in the 1960's; Further Expansion and change; [2nd edition - A decade of expansion and change.]

  

St George's School

1907-1967

A Portrait of the Founders

[Cecil & Lucy Grant]

 

Complied by H. W. Howe

 

St George's School, Harpenden, 1967

 

  1. Introduction

  2. 'Forty Years On' Recollections of Old Georgians

  3. Highlights from the Memorial Supplements (1946)

  4. Extracts from a schoolmaster's diary (1913-1916)

  5. Cecil Grant Speaks

  6. Epilogue

  

This is an attractively presented 48 page booklet, with many pictures and reasonable looking text. There is no index, and pictures of school teams, etc., do not include the names of pupils. The section headings are: Mr Wix's School; The move to Harpenden [1887]; Building the Chapel [1891]; [The school as it was moved away in 1906, and eventually became associated with Haileybury]; The Keswick origins; The early days [1907 - the new school in the old buildings]; The Great War Years; Peace-time progress; Twenty-one years; Gifts and Offerings; Mr Grant retires; Dr Watts takes over; After the Second World War; The appointment of Mr Gedge; Changes in the 1960's; Further Expansion and change.

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