Parkside Community College 1996

Cambridge 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)

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1913

Higher Grade Council Schools for Boys and Girls

Head Master G W Martin

Head Mistress Miss Blair

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11 December 1914 – Schools released from military occupation
During the First World War the military authorities announced that soldiers billeted at Melbourne Place School would shortly transfer to newly constructed hutments on Cherry Hinton Road. Although fresh troops were arriving in Cambridge, this change meant that East Road School and King Street School would no longer be required for military accommodation. Other buildings, including the Drill Hall in East Road and the Girls’ County School, remained overcrowded with troops. The military agreed to pay the town £400 towards the cost of accommodation, although this represented only a fraction of the true expense. The report also noted that billeting soldiers provided valuable income for lodging-house keepers at a time when the reduced number of university students had significantly affected their livelihoods. It provides an illuminating glimpse of how the war reshaped everyday life and the use of public buildings in Cambridge.
Source: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge King Street Scrapbook 1897–1990, Item: 14 12 11.

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1920

High Grade School, Melbourne Place

Dr Marion Phillips at Parkside, Cambridge

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WWII:

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1945

Central Boys 1945 Register

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1948 Central Grammar School for Boys and Girls

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Class of 1950 – 1955 Vol. 1

Central School Cambridge, Class of 1950 – 1955 Vol. 1

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Class of 1950 – 1955 Vol. 2

Central School Cambridge, Class of 1950 – 1955, vol 2

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Class of 1950 -1955 Vol.3

Central School Cambridge, Class of 1950 – 1955, Vol. 3

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Class of 1950 – 1955 Vol. 4

Central School Cambridge, Class of 1950 – 1955, Vol. 4

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Class of 1950 – 1955 Vol. 5

Central School Cambridge, Class of 1950 – 1955, Vol. 5

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R Oleson’s Metalwork Technology Notebook 1953

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Central School Boys Camping trip to the Isle of Wight [Year?]

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Central School Boys Camping trip to Wales 1954

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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.

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1962 Cambridge Grammar School for Girls (Kelly’s Directory)

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