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Parkside Community College 1996Cambridge Higher Grade School, Central School, Grammar School for Boys & Girls, Parkside
History of the Cambridge Grammar School for Girls, Parkside
The Old Schools also opened a girls’ and infants’ school in Park Street in 1877. It had two schoolrooms and a classroom, and was a higher-grade school (fn. 51) from 1896 to 1928, when the senior children were removed, leaving it as a juniors’ and infants’ school. There were about 140 children in the school in 1880 and 200 in 1948. (From British History online.)
The Borough Council opened its own higher grade school in 1913 just after the Milton Road school was taken over. This was in Melbourne Place and provided for about 820 boys and girls. Two of the three remaining Church higher-grade schools closed when it was opened. As in other higher-grade schools small fees were charged until 1918: at Melbourne Place these were between 6d. and 9d. a week. It was called the Central council school from 1919 and became a senior elementary school. (From British History online)
Central School 1939 (Cambridgeshire Collection)
1913
Higher Grade Council Schools for Boys and Girls
Head Master G W Martin
Head Mistress Miss Blair
1920
High Grade School, Melbourne Place
1945
1948 Central Grammar School for Boys and Girls
1948 Central School photo part 1
1948 Central School photo part 2
1948 Central School photo part 3
1948 Central School photo part 4
Central School Reunion – 2005
The Cambridge News contained the following story in April 2005:
A FORMER Cambridge school pupil has made a Transatlantic appeal to find his old classmates. Keith Ward, who lives in Canada, wants to trace pupils who attended the Central Grammar School in Parkside from 1945-1948/9. He hopes to arrange a reunion when he visits the UK later this year. His friend and former classmate David Mayes is coordinating the search in this country and he has compiled a list of former pupils who will now be about 70 years old.
They are: Robert Acott, Roger Allin, Gerald Almrott, William Bailey, John Baker, Kenneth Beales, Roy Bendall, Stanley Berning, Neville Bidwell, John Boxall, Terence Briggs, Keith Brown, Michael Brown, John Burton, Claude Butcher, Sidney Buttress, Michael Cash, Brian Chapman, Graham Clarke, Raymond Clarke, Roger Clarke, Michael Corby, Kenneth Cowmeadow, Peter Darling, Peter Dean, Derek Eastwood, Brian Edgeworth, Ralph Ellam, Maurice Frost, Thomas Gawthrop, Peter Gedney and Brian George.
The list also includes Peter Gower, Christopher Green, John Harding, Michael Harvey, Maurice Haslop, Ronald Hatton, Brian Hills, Derek Hodges, David Hunt, Rodney Ison, Roger Ison, Eric Leake, Leon Lindsay, Dennis Maltby, Alfred Marsh, John Mason, John Matthews, Edward Mayles, Richard Moore, John Murfitt, Michael Ogden, John Payne, Peter Prior, Michael Purvis, Colin Ralph, Gerald Randall, Frederick Rentcombe, Basil Scarr, Edward Searby, Leslie Sewell, Derek Simpson, Brian Smith, Philip Stearn, Anthony Sumner, Douglas Teakson, Rodney Tibbs, John Tooke, David Varney, Keith Ward, Brian Warner and Peter Wright.
Central School reunion (dates unknown)
Central School reunion (dates unknown)
Central School reunion (dates unknown)
1962 Cambridge Grammar School for Girls
Parkside (2005)
Parkside (2005)
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