I have visited the site of the Church Street site of the Minster Grammar School several times recently and have been increasingly dismayed at the state of it. The high boarding that shielded the site from view has disappeared and been replaced by wire mesh thus exposing the debris and the weeds. Read More...

Tags: Church Street Site, SMGS, BBC, Southwell Archaeology

I well remember it was one day during the Easter holiday, 1940, the year of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain. I was nine years old, and not a little apprehensive. I stood at my father's side while he rang, by appointment, the bell of the front door of the Southwell Grammar School. I was aware that this was to be a significant event in my young life. Read More...

Tags: Wartime, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Matthews, Doy, Rugby, JWB, Yates, Crash Landing, Ma Slack, Rushby-Smith, Pulford, Cinder Hill, Mosedale's, YHA, Codge, John Watts, Boarders