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We are not quite sure how to deal with this. We don’t sell anything and don’t give addresses or emails to anyone.
If you need to contact anyone you read about on these pages then please contact me on Pauline@paulinedodd.com and I will contact the person concerned and ask for their permission to put you in touch.
If there is anything on this website which offends or upsets you please let us know and it will be dealt with immediately.
'A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in a little thing is a very great thing'
Early 1870's when the school was the Boys Grammar School
The school was built originally for a Boys Grammar School in Trafalgar Road; the corner stone of which was laid by the Mayor on 28th August,1869. It was officially opened by Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, on 6th June 1872. He stayed at Shadingfield Lodge.
On 21st September 1910, the Boys Grammar School became the Girls High School and continued until 1957 when the new High School for girls opened in Gorleston.
The Building continued as Styles Secondary Modern School until 1982 when it closed down, and in 1983 it was demolished completely to build flats.
Information taken from "A Diary of Great Yarmouth" by John McBride.
On 21st September 1910, the Boys Grammar School became the Girls High School and continued until 1957 when the new High School for girls opened in Gorleston.
The Building continued as Styles Secondary Modern School until 1982 when it closed down, and in 1983 it was demolished completely to build flats.
Information taken from "A Diary of Great Yarmouth" by John McBride.
Old Girls Lunch at The Furzedown May 9th 2019
Only 26 ladies attended the lunch but most enjoyed it. If any lady has a problem regarding the lunch arrangements please let us know so that we can do something about it.
Carole Owen had produced fine copies of the 1954 and 58 photographs. She was unable to attend as she was suffering from a very bad cold and didn’t want to pass it on to the rest of us. Thank you Carole for being so thoughtful!
Ladies were sad to hear of the death of Mr Newton. By all accounts he was a very special teacher. His full obituary is on our website http://www.greatyarmouthgirlshighschool.co.uk/obituaries.html
Jane informed us that the Church clock had been raised and was working well both chiming and keeping time. Our donation had been much appreciated.
Rose Beckett was unwell after a stroke and a stay in hospital. We had sent her a card.
Rosemary Watson suggested we might make a contribution to the Foodbank at North Denes Primary school following the documentary on BBC1 on the plight of families whose children attend the school. Several former Old Girls attended the school. It was agreed by all who attended that a cheque for £150 would be sent to the head teacher.
Only 26 ladies attended the lunch but most enjoyed it. If any lady has a problem regarding the lunch arrangements please let us know so that we can do something about it.
Carole Owen had produced fine copies of the 1954 and 58 photographs. She was unable to attend as she was suffering from a very bad cold and didn’t want to pass it on to the rest of us. Thank you Carole for being so thoughtful!
Ladies were sad to hear of the death of Mr Newton. By all accounts he was a very special teacher. His full obituary is on our website http://www.greatyarmouthgirlshighschool.co.uk/obituaries.html
Jane informed us that the Church clock had been raised and was working well both chiming and keeping time. Our donation had been much appreciated.
Rose Beckett was unwell after a stroke and a stay in hospital. We had sent her a card.
Rosemary Watson suggested we might make a contribution to the Foodbank at North Denes Primary school following the documentary on BBC1 on the plight of families whose children attend the school. Several former Old Girls attended the school. It was agreed by all who attended that a cheque for £150 would be sent to the head teacher.
Mr Ronald Skins Music and English Teacher 10 February 1922 – 25 April 2019
Mr Skins taken from 1961 School Photograph
Ron was born in the Leicestershire village of Buckminster, where he grew up. In his nineties, he wrote a very interesting memoir of his life in the village.
Ron was an outstanding musician. Himself an expert player of many kinds of recorder, he did much to encourage recorder-playing. He set up the school recorder club. He also set up his own consort, which he directed in Norwich and churches in East Anglia for decades. He was the Norfolk representative of the National Society of Recorder Players.
He ended his days living happily with his daughter Kate in the Pyrenees, and died peacefully with his family around him at the age of 97.
Clare Galloway writes:
I got to know Mr Skins in the music context. Recorders were his passion and he was happy to share his love of recorder music with us, the pupils. He was a member of NSRP - the National Society of Recorder Players - and took part in weekend playing days. I was fortunate to take part in these, in GYHS and occasionally elsewhere. Sometimes I used to take my recorder (and my packed lunch) to the far-flung location of Lowestoft - once, the famous virtuoso Carl Dolmetsch joined us, which was exciting for a (very) junior player. From GYHS we also took part in events requiring recorders – such as Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde, in the Town Hall, and the school staging of Molière's play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Two of us dressed up in satin britches in a Renaissance style! Mr Skins was kind and gentle and always supportive. I can't ever remember him being ‘teacherish’ in any way!
A few of the comments from Facebook: Great Yarmouth High School Old Girls Association
He kindled my love of Shakespeare
A very kind and gentle man
A kind, gentleman teacher with great passion for English and music.
A wonderful and inspirational teacher. I will always remember his beautiful copperplate handwriting - in chalk on a blackboard! I was in his recorder group for several years - he introduced us to the various crumhorns and other varieties of recorders I hadn’t known existed. Remembering too his lovely daughter Kate - best wishes to her and all the family. A truly lovely man.
Great respect for a highly intelligent, talented and modest colleague. (Barbara Tingey)
Mr. Skins was my form teacher and English Teacher. He epitomised the ‘gentle’ in gentleman throughout my time at school. The group gave me a lifeline and was so important to me.
One of the few men who helped to teach me what it really means to be a gentleman
I was taught by Ronald Skins in primary and secondary school. He taught me recorder in both and will go as far as saying that he fostered in me a love of music for life.
Mr Skins playing a recorder at the 2013 reunion of the 1953 intake
1953 Intake at the Furzedown Hotel. November 16 2018
Key to the photograph:
Back row:
Alison (Clare) Flath, Pamela (Kerrison) Hollis, Judith (Dawes) Parlby, Iris London, Carol (Jackson) Roberts, Sylvia Bracey
Front row:
Wendy (Priestley) Lyon, Diana (Perkins) Martin, Carole (Dane) Owen, Sandra (Smith) Perry, Jill (Thain) Dyble, Mrs Jean Morris (German teacher), Maureen (Holt) Grimmer, Ann (Brock) Russell
Back row:
Alison (Clare) Flath, Pamela (Kerrison) Hollis, Judith (Dawes) Parlby, Iris London, Carol (Jackson) Roberts, Sylvia Bracey
Front row:
Wendy (Priestley) Lyon, Diana (Perkins) Martin, Carole (Dane) Owen, Sandra (Smith) Perry, Jill (Thain) Dyble, Mrs Jean Morris (German teacher), Maureen (Holt) Grimmer, Ann (Brock) Russell
Sixty-five years since we started at the Girls' High School
Written by Carole Owen
No smart-phones, no internet, no cars delivering us to school, but we probably enjoyed our youth as much as children do today. Fifteen of us from the 1953 intake to Great Yarmouth High School for Girls, together with our teacher Mrs Jean Morris, gathered at the Furzedown Hotel in mid-November 2018 for a day to celebrate the ties that remain from our time together and to share our memories of the fifties. We chatted and then enjoyed a delicious meal.
We raised our after-lunch coffee cups to drink a toast to two old girls who could not be present, Anne (Haylett) Mumford and Diana (Poulton) Savory. Diana went back to the school as a maths teacher. Anne now lives in Berwick, in the far north of England, and Diana lives over the border in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. They had decided to meet for their own mini-reunion lunch on the same day that the rest of us were meeting in Yarmouth and had said that they would raise their coffee cups to us.
In the afternoon, I shared news that I had had from other fellow-pupils. In March, Anthea Cullington was over here from California, where she settled 40 years ago, and ended up running a restaurant. Ann Milroy tracked her down on the restaurant's website. In March she came over to England to stay with her sister, who lives west of London, and joined Ann and me for lunch. Anthea and Ann kept up their friendship after school, when Ann's family had moved to Richmond in Yorkshire, but lost contact when Anthea moved to the States.
Mr Newton was unable to join us. He had a fall a while back, but fortunately has made a complete recovery. We all signed a card for him, which Alison (Clare) Flath, who lives in Bury St Edmunds, not far from his village, kindly took to him.
From Diana (Perkins) Martin we learned that Pamela Mobbs is now captain of the Middlesex Ladies Over-75s tennis team. Apparently, she occasionally has trouble getting a team together.
We took it in turns to recall and pay tribute to some of our teachers. We remembered kindly Mrs Pereira, who taught us French. How hard she worked, making each one of us in the first year a head-dress for our performance of Sur le Pont d'Avignon in a French evening to which parents were invited. She played a large part in the setting up of the twinning of Great Yarmouth with Rambouillet and led the first visit there by High School girls. A photo of this group should appear shortly on the website.
This was a very happy occasion for all involved. Our grateful thanks to Paul and Lisa Garrod at the Furzedown for the lovely food and for doing all that we could wish to give us such a good day. Here's to the next.
Written by Carole Owen
No smart-phones, no internet, no cars delivering us to school, but we probably enjoyed our youth as much as children do today. Fifteen of us from the 1953 intake to Great Yarmouth High School for Girls, together with our teacher Mrs Jean Morris, gathered at the Furzedown Hotel in mid-November 2018 for a day to celebrate the ties that remain from our time together and to share our memories of the fifties. We chatted and then enjoyed a delicious meal.
We raised our after-lunch coffee cups to drink a toast to two old girls who could not be present, Anne (Haylett) Mumford and Diana (Poulton) Savory. Diana went back to the school as a maths teacher. Anne now lives in Berwick, in the far north of England, and Diana lives over the border in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. They had decided to meet for their own mini-reunion lunch on the same day that the rest of us were meeting in Yarmouth and had said that they would raise their coffee cups to us.
In the afternoon, I shared news that I had had from other fellow-pupils. In March, Anthea Cullington was over here from California, where she settled 40 years ago, and ended up running a restaurant. Ann Milroy tracked her down on the restaurant's website. In March she came over to England to stay with her sister, who lives west of London, and joined Ann and me for lunch. Anthea and Ann kept up their friendship after school, when Ann's family had moved to Richmond in Yorkshire, but lost contact when Anthea moved to the States.
Mr Newton was unable to join us. He had a fall a while back, but fortunately has made a complete recovery. We all signed a card for him, which Alison (Clare) Flath, who lives in Bury St Edmunds, not far from his village, kindly took to him.
From Diana (Perkins) Martin we learned that Pamela Mobbs is now captain of the Middlesex Ladies Over-75s tennis team. Apparently, she occasionally has trouble getting a team together.
We took it in turns to recall and pay tribute to some of our teachers. We remembered kindly Mrs Pereira, who taught us French. How hard she worked, making each one of us in the first year a head-dress for our performance of Sur le Pont d'Avignon in a French evening to which parents were invited. She played a large part in the setting up of the twinning of Great Yarmouth with Rambouillet and led the first visit there by High School girls. A photo of this group should appear shortly on the website.
This was a very happy occasion for all involved. Our grateful thanks to Paul and Lisa Garrod at the Furzedown for the lovely food and for doing all that we could wish to give us such a good day. Here's to the next.
Link to Honour Boards 1902 - 1974
