21st Anniversary Press Cutting

Times-Gazette photographs taken at the school 20 years ago revive war-time memories for the present headmaster, Mr. Leslie James and senior mistress, Miss M. H. Drayton the only two original members of staff still teaching there. Below: The school that survived the bombs. Opened 21 years ago this month, the building survived one of the worst local raids of the war less than 12 months later, when at least 200 people in the area were killed.