Archives
Celebrating Sporting Excellence
Have you competed at national level or
represented your University?
Have you ever represented your country or
held a national record?
Have you ever competed in the Olympics?
The Sports Department is looking to build up a record of
National standard sports men and women (both junior and
senior) from King’s and needs your help. The sport may be one
that you played at King’s or took up later in life.
PE students are going to look through the Archives for
information but we know that the school records are
incomplete and that we will probably have no record of your
sporting achievements in later life.
PJ Robinson breaks the public school mile record in 1949 after losing his
Longer term the Sports Department would like to produce shoe on the first lap.
a permanent tribute to sporting excellence possibly in the
form of an Honours Board. Please help to make this record as Information can be sent to Alison Mason, College
comprehensive as possible either by sending us details of your Archivist, telephone 01823 328243 or email
own sporting career or those of your contemporaries. archives@kings-taunton.co.uk
Information requested regarding Excerpts from the Archives
Colin C Smith, Meynell House 1947-1951 Many thanks for the positive response to the excerpts
from the Drill Book published in the last OA Newsletter.
UPDATE We now re-print the longest entry from the school’s last
Corporal Punishment Book (names obscured to protect
In the January 2013 edition of OA News we appealed for the the guilty).
whereabouts of Colin on behalf of researchers interested in SS (Alfred) and W (i) (Woodard) 2 April 1963
his flight from Singapore in 1942. Many thanks in particular 4 Strokes for pointless and misdirected humour in poor
to Tony Hanscomb OA, Woodard 1952, who contacted the taste to celebrate April 1st. Viz…
Archives with his memories of Colin. Whilst we have not yet 1) Hauling a chair up the flagpole at the front of school
heard from any OAs who remained in contact with Colin the where it was visible from South Road.
Archives have been 2) Letting down the Land Rover tyres and not
e-mailed by Barry volunteering information for this second part.
Lightfoot, a writer on The punishment to W (i) was ‘repeated for padding
local history topics in himself first time’
Greater Manchester, The caning was administered by the School Captain and
who believes that witnessed by a Prefect
Colin may well be
40s and 50s Memories Project
living in the Bolton
area. All the Archives Dr Tim Brennand is still in the process of collating
all the “Life Stories post King’s” of any OA who left
enquiries have so far
in the 1940s and 1950s.
drawn a blank but if
anyone has further If you have yet to send in your contribution then
please do so by the end of November 2013.
information we would
be keen to hear from Please contact Dr Tim Brennand for further
you. information: timandsueb@gmail.com - telephone
01570 421553.
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