Many from my years at School will have visited the Black Dog & Duck at Bury. Sadly, the pub is no more as it has been converted into two luxury residences. On the other hand, the main property still proudly bears the name “The Black Dog & Duck”. If you click on the link below and scroll down you will …

Speech Day circa 1956.  Ian Walters receiving his prize. Can anyone identify the dignitary, please? Here is a story that is not trivial. Not at all, for I have come to think that it is quite likely a major, albeit subconscious, reason for my leaving England in 1973. It was certainly the reason why it took me so long to …

The beginnings of Rugby at CHSB – the first Grasshoppers XV     “The Grasshoppers”: A Short History By Doctor Tony Deacock In 1944, towards the end of the war, a group of senior pupils at Chichester High School for Boys got together to play Rugby Football. It is likely that none of them had ever seen a game played. …

Autumn term, 1971 The question of whether or not secondary school education should be organised by academic ability and gender has been under debate pretty much since the end of the Second World War.   This article does not join that discussion, but records how Chichester High School for Boys (The School) and the Lancastrian Boys School were merged into a single …

K D wields the cane A former master recounted the following tale to me: Shortly after joining the School and having had no previous experience of public or grammar schools of our ilk he was made a form master. At the end of his first term in charge he duly read all the boys’ reports written by each subject master …

John Howard, Richard Wood-Kneller and Ken Hoad have all joined in to work out whether this is a photograph of class 2A or The Bug Club. I think Ken Hoad has the definitive answer below except that I think it is more likely to be the Bug Club, since there are two 1st formers in the photograph – Malcolm Withnall …

Chichester High School for Boys Form Alpha 1930 – 1944 A fee paying alternative to the scholarship for entry into the school A small article appeared in the 2006 Spring Newsletter requesting contributions from Members relating to the history of Form Alpha together with other ancillary recollections. This resulted in the stirring of memories of a number of members and …

I did enjoy my time with the CCF at the school, I believe K D Anderson was the driving force behind establishing it at the school, I joined at thirteen a year or so after it started. We visited Chichester last year, one of my insufficient excursions to my roots, I noticed passing the school on the bus that the …

Ken “Bogey” Murch’s Wartime Reminiscences Born in 1917 1 received an early introduction to aviation when, the day after I was born, I was in a Zeppelin air raid when a nurse was killed a mile away, so my parents told me. I volunteered for the RAF in September 1939, after gaining my BSc degree, was accepted immediately and posted …

A Lifelong Passion for Aviation Generated at the School (Eric Myall 1942-1949) I have always been interested in aviation and at the High School there were two ways of fostering this hobby. The first was by joining the School Spotters Club which was affiliated to the National Association of Spotters Clubs. As far as I recall, this had been organised …