Garry Humphreys

Here's a picture of D B Sparrow taken from a staff group photograph on the Apsley Grammar School archive website just a year or so after he was at the Mellish. Apsley G.S., like the Mellish is, alas, no more ...

Hi Phil. Coming new to this site I've enjoyed your posts in particular - thank you! I was in fact in touch with Malcolm Peaker around the time of the closure because I had an idea to put together a book about the school based mainly on items that exhibition and in The Centaur, but nothing has come of it. However, we keep in touch occasionally. When Nigel Press died Malcolm had some entertaining memories, not least because Nigel used to prefer to take his morning coffee with the lab stewards rather than in the staff room! I remember Malcolm very well and have a vivid aural memory of his name be

Bob McCandless was a dear. We used to look forward to his announcements in assembly about TEA on family day and how, to avoid disappointment (and the wrath of 'Missus Frorst', as he always pronounced it!), it had to be ordered in advance. Forty years on, after many years living in London, I was visiting Nottingham and realized I was quite near to his home in Carlton, and walked down the road past his house and, to my amazement, there he was standing in the window, waiting for a taxi to take him to church (it was a Sunday morning). I couldn't just walk on, so I went up to the house, rang the be

I attended HMGS from 1957 to 1964, therefore at the same time as several posters here. This site was drawn to my attention by Robert Dawson during a recent exchange of e-mails following the sad death of our friend Robert Newton. I last saw Newton in 2009 at one of the gatherings to mark the closure of the school - a bittersweet occasion, given the sad state of the buildings (though not as sad as when the whole lot was demolished). The school had moved from being a pretty decent grammar school sending a stream of boys to universities and into the professions, to a comprehensive and then a sport