Clubs Clubs came and went throughout the life of the school. Home
Those mentioned below all existed at one time or other in the fifties and early sixties.
If you know the name(s) of a master/masters in charge of the club which you were a member of, please let me know. Click on the name of a club to obtain more information.
I was just perusing the site and looked into Clubs. In my era (69-75) I took part in 3 clubs:
Stamp Club run by Dick Bentley, lunchtimes in Cockroft chem lab
Wargames Society run by Brett Tussler, met on Saturdays in his Geography room in the new block
Chess Club, can't remember who ran this but i half recall that Harry took an interest. I also half remember playing in a match against another school in Room 21. Keep up the good work, Nick Tompkins (1969)
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Clubs |
Master(s) |
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Last |
| Astronomical Society | Mr Bantoft | 1964 | 1966+? |
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Chess club |
Mr. Leftwich |
1947 |
1974 |
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Christian fellowship |
Mr. McAll, Dr. Pettit, Mr. Phillips |
1959 |
1972 |
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1952 |
1968 |
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Debating society |
Mr. Gray |
1933 |
1959 |
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Mr. Brown, Mr. Cook, Mr. Harris, Dr Jackson, Geoffrey Dean, David Wilson |
1932 |
1973 |
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Gymnastic club |
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1952 |
1958 |
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Historical society |
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1954 |
1955 |
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Modern languages society |
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1959 |
1961 |
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1947 |
1968 |
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Play reading society |
Mr Appleby |
1937 |
1957 |
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1947 |
1964 |
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Mr. Burrell, Mr. Cheale, |
1937 |
1977 |
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| Radio Club | Vera’ Vann led it (1969-1972); restarted in the Wrenn School by a teacher named Jack Lee | ||
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Record society |
Mr Greenwood |
1957 |
1977 (Closure) |
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Recorder club |
Mr Butler |
1957 |
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Scientific society |
Mr Phillips (remembered by Dick Britton (1953)) |
1946 |
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Mr.Pine, Mr Clayton, Mr. Weatherhead, Mr. Dunning, Mr. Stanley, After Mr.Dunning retired Sandy McDonald took over as leader, with Peter Gillibrand as Assistant. Latterly, Terry Rowe joined as assistant leader, and just after I left (as did Sandy), John Huddart ran the Group until it closed in 1975 |
1932 |
1975 |
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Stamp club |
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1947 |
1974 |
| Square Dancing |
1951 |
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Table tennis club |
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1944 |
1956 |
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Mr.Dunning, Mr.E.C.Harding |
1954 |
1974 |
Puppet Club - Mr. Phillips Started in 1948
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Ron Sherwood is standing, David Tall sitting on the left and next to him is Ricky Wrenn. Ian Richardson is sitting next to Ricky, behind him is Trevor Parker. Martin Spriggs is looking left (towards the puppets) - the lad on the chair on the right is Michael Beswick. |
Another club that I became involved with was the Radio Club…’Vera’ Vann led it when I started at the school…it ceased when he left, but started again when the School went comprehensive, and one of the High School teachers…Jack Lee…started it up again, and was responsible for quite a lot of us getting our amateur radio licences.. Martin Percy (1972)