Sports day 1953

Sports day 1954

Sports day 1950

Olympian Bill Nankeville was also Bobby Davro's father!

Speech day 1954

School athletics records

Metric records are after 1970.

100 Yards – 10.4 secs (B. R. Arnold, 1962)

100 m – 11.5 secs (M. C. Dix, 1972)

220 Yards – 23.2 secs (B. R. Arnold, 1962)

200 m – 24.3 secs (M. C. Dix, 1972)

440 Yards – 51.4 secs (S. B. Brown, 1967)

400 m – 55.6 secs (R. W. Atkins, 1976)

880 Yards – 1 min 57.5 secs (I. R. A. Hicks, 1969)

800 m – 2 mins 8 secs (R. Moore, 1976)

1 Mile – 4 mins 24.5 secs (I. R. A. Hicks, 1968)

1500 m – 4 mins 26.2 secs (T. Eglen, 1976)

3 Miles – 15 mins 15.5 secs (I. R. A. Hicks, 1969)

5000 m – 17 mins 8 secs (T. Eglen, 1976)

120 Yards hurdles – 16.7 secs (C. Hulse, 1961)

120 m hurdles – 17.1 secs (S. Mitchison, 1974)

High jump – 5’ 9 ½” (J. D. Fitzpatrick-Nash, 1964)

Long jump – 20’ 11” (J. W. Bragg, 1961)

Triple jump – 42’ 5 ¼” (J. D. Fitzpartrick-Nash, 1962)

Javelin – 170’ 3” (J. C. Dawson, 1969)

Discus – 132’ 5” (D. J. Sellicks, 1953)

Shot – 42’ 0” (D. J. Sellicks, 1953)

Pole vault – 8’ 9” (R. J. Morris, 1964)

The Wokingian - Summer 1954

A scanned copy of the school magazine, The Wokingian can be found HERE

503 Boys on the register, along with the usual sports results there are details of school trips to Italy and France and the return of Roderic Coote an Old Boy who was at the time Bishop of Gambia.