“How lucky we were to live as Englishmen in England”. Please visit the “From our Archives” section to see a video posted by Ian Walters some time ago.
Obituary Notices 2015
BALDWIN Peter – Died 21-10-2015 – Aged 82 – Chi High years 1944-49 – Born Chidham 1933 – National Service in Army – Trained at Bristol Old Vic –Joined West End Theatre Company – Jobbing actor best known for his role as Derek Wilton in TV’s Coronation Street which lasted 21 years. Later purveyor of Pollacks Toy Shop in Covent …
More Memories of a Chichester Evacuee – Peter Lawson Old Thorntonian (1936 -1941)
We met on Friday 1st September 1939 at 8.30am and travelled to Balham (S.R) with haversacks and small attaché cases, to arrive in Bognor just after mid-day. In crocodile formation we marched, full of excitement, to the Social Centre/Theatre opposite the Pier Head, where we were “’selected” by “locum parents” and put into small groups for billeting. I was lucky, …
More Memories of a Chichester Evacuee by Ron Hercock Old Thorntonian (1935 -1940)
I joined the school at a small village named Pagham, about six miles from Bognor Regis and a little farther from Chichester. There was no place where we could have any teaching, and so we had none. I was billeted over a mile from the village itself and therefore had little to do with anyone from the school except …
The Southern Way by Bill Allen
This learned article on South Coast Steam was written by Bill Allen of the School Railway Society, published in The Southern Way No 17 edited by Kevin Robertson, and will be of interest to all those many boys who had the privilege of travelling to and from School on the “Steamer”.
Henry Thornton School in the country (1939-1946)
In eager expectation we watched the stations pass. Bognor! Some had happy memories of the place in peace time, and some did indeed for a while remain there. Others went to villages, others again to bungalow towns. After a few days, contact was regained between the various sections. The weather was lovely, the war far away, the bathing for most …
Summer Luncheon at Rowland’s Castle Golf Club 2014
A wonderful time was had by numerous old boys and their ladies as shewn in the accompanying pictures
Golf Day at Bognor 2013
Photographs of the participants in our 2013 Golf Day won by the inimitable David Hampton, golfer extraordinaire.
Memories of Chichester during World War Two – Ron Thurston (1940-1946)
Before I tell you about my early days at Henry Thornton School (HTS) I think I should explain how I came to be there in the first place. When I was 11, my class at junior school (in Stockwell, South West London) were bundled onto a steam train with one of the teachers and sent to the relative safety of …