Monk Watson

Introduction by Doug Murgatroyd Having only just got a handle on how to access the Old Cicestrians Website and learnt only recently how to “upload” information onto it, I thought that an appropriate area of interest would be Teacher Memories. To this end I have begun the process of collating articles we have previously published in past newsletters and, hopefully, …

A A (Fishy) Scales

Alfred Scales: “The Beginnings: A personal note from the School’s first Headmaster HF Collins” from the Spring 1967 edition of the Martlet The unexpected and tragic death of Alfred Scales must come as a shock to all Cicestrians, for no man has rendered over the years more devoted service to the community in Kingsham Road. I well recall the circumstances of his …

Rod Sealy

Introduction by Doug Murgatroyd Having only just got a handle on how to access the Old Cicestrians Website and learnt only recently how to “upload” information onto it, I thought that an appropriate area of interest would be Teacher Memories. To this end I have begun the process of collating articles we have previously published in past newsletters and, hopefully, …

Peter Simmonds 1942-1948

Introduction by Doug Murgatroyd Having only just got a handle on how to access the Old Cicestrians Website and learnt only recently how to “upload” information onto it, I thought that an appropriate area of interest would be Teacher Memories. To this end, I have begun the process of collating articles we have previously published in past newsletters and, hopefully, …

Bill Jackson 1929-2010

Introduction by Doug Murgatroyd Having only just got a handle on how to access the Old Cicestrians Website and learnt only recently how to “upload” information onto it, I thought that an appropriate area of interest would be Teacher Memories. To this end, I have begun the process of collating articles we have previously published in past newsletters and, hopefully, …

Jo Powicke

Introduction by Doug Murgatroyd Having only just got a handle on how to access the Old Cicestrians Website and learnt only recently how to “upload” information onto it, I thought that an appropriate area of interest would be Teacher Memories. To this end I have begun the process of collating articles we have previously published in past newsletters and, hopefully, …

Eric Smedley

Introduction by Doug Murgatroyd Having only just got a handle on how to access the Old Cicestrians Website and learnt only recently how to “upload” information onto it, I thought that an appropriate area of interest would be Teacher Memories. To this end I have begun the process of collating articles we have previously published in past newsletters and, hopefully, …

Roger Quittenton 1940 – 2013

Introduction by Doug Murgatroyd Having only just got a handle on how to access the Old Cicestrians Website and learnt only recently how to “upload” information onto it, I thought that an appropriate area of interest would be Teacher Memories. To this end, I have begun the process of collating articles we have previously published in past newsletters and, hopefully, …

David Wood’s speech 3 December, 2016

This was written by David Wood (at the School 1954-1962) and used as the basis for his marvellous speech to Old Cicestrians at the 2016 Christmas Luncheon in Chichester.   “Chi and I …” Memories of Chichester Festival Theatre by a local schoolboy who watched the laying of the foundation stone, then, over a period of fifty years, proudly became …

George Hersee (1935 – 1941)

Hersee was a television engineer. He was born on December 29, 1924 at Loxwood near Wisborough Green.  He was educated first at the Elm Grove School, Littlehampton before obtaining a bursary to Chichester High School for Boys; he later read physics from 1942 at University College, Southampton.   After five years at EMI he joined the BBC studio installation and planning …