Dear Sian,
Thank you very much for your comments.
The truth is that I attended Moseley Secondary School between 1931 and 1935.
After I left, it became a Grammar School and now it is a Language College.
About nine months ago, I contacted the school's archivist and asked what he
knew. He made available to me almost all of the terminal school magazines,
(three per year) which recorded all the comings and goings of pupils and
staff. It was that information which started me to enquire about staff
members who had impressed me as a 11-16 year-old. So I photographed every
page of all of them. They occupy 2.17 gigabytes on my laptop
The staff always wore their gowns to teach, and when they left, a very brief
personal history was sometimes included giving the university which they had
attended. So then I wrote to the archivists of the various establishments,
and they have been very helpful. I do already have quite a wealth of
information, but I thought it would be good to make contact with any
descendants there might be to ask what they remembered of their ancestor.The
West Monmouth School even sent me a History of the School which included a
reference to David Hughes as a French master from 1921-1923, when he became
deputy head at Moseley. I was good at French and I found him very kind and
helpful.
I am very nearly an ancestor myself. If I survive another month, I shall be
93, My two children have retired, my five grandchildren are mainly in their
prime and I have seven gt.grandchildren, aged between seven and 0.3.
So, thank you very much indeed for your help, I hope I haven't bored you.
Yours very gratefully,
Gordon Reed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sian Mackey" <sian(a)swallowtail.org>
To: <monmouthshire(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [MON] D. Hughes
Hello Gordon,
You could try researching the staff at the King Edward VI Grammar
Schools at that time. Theschools still exist, so may well have archives.
The boys' schools are K. E. Five Ways, K.E. Camp Hill and K.E. Aston.
(If you google them you can get full details.) It's possible that the
now independent King Edward's School was also a grammar school then. Of
course, there would have been other grammar schools in the area at that
time, I would imagine, however, they will be harder to research given
that they no longer exist. I'd start with the King Edward's Foundation
schools and only try to move on if they don't prove fruitful.
Regards,
Sian
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