Sports day 1925

The sports day results from 1925 featuring the ubiquitous Coote brothers.

Sports Day 1916

1916 Sports day including chariot race, blind horseback race and crab race. Note there was no timing, results in the athletics are given as distances.

1915 Sports day

Report of the first ever school sports day in 1915.

Sports Day 1919

The 1919 Sports Day report including the 'flowerpot race' and 'cycle tilting'.

Speech day 1917

Old Wokingians Association

A history of the Old Boys association and details of some notable ex pupils.

Open scholarships

Lower 6 Science 2 1966/67

The first 48

When the school opened in September 1914 the first intake was of 48 boys.

1.  Alfred Beharrel - Son of a railway agent. Born in Hornsey, Middlesex. Served in the Merchant Navy. In WW2 served as Temporary Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. Died in Rhuddlan, Wales in 1974 aged 73.

Alfred Beharrel's Second Mate Certificate dated 1921

2.     Jack Bond - Son of a temperance hotel keeper. Born in Woking, lived in Commercial Road.
3.     Leslie Goulding - Son of a stationery shop manager. Born in Woking, lived in Chertsey Road.
4.     Arthur Hampton - Son of a gardener. Born in Chobham, lived in Horsell.
5.     Frederick Kemp - Son of a builder. Born in Woking, lived in West Hall.
6.     Henry Ledbrooke - Son of an engineer's pattern maker. Born in Castlethorpe, Bucks, lived in Marlborough Road.
7.     Lionel Lewis - Son of an actor. Born in Aberdeen, lived in Royal Oak Road. Served in both world wars, died on active service in 1946.
8.     John Mallard - Son of a master tailor. Born in Woking, lived in Chertsey Road.
9.     Raymond Cecil Mathis - Son of a railway clerk. Born in Woking, lived in Lavender Cottages, West Byfleet.
10. Douglas McKay - Son of a railway agent. Born in Stockport, lived in Goldsworth Hill.
11. Dennis Rowden Newsam - Son of a railway clerk. Born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Kingsway.
12. Frank Pearson - Born in Woking, lived at Lady Grove Farm, Guildford.
13. Mervyn Marwood Rowland - Born in Chertsey. Died in Newport, Gwent in 1976 aged 75.
14. Charles Henry Rudkin - Son of a plumber. Born in Woking, lived in Walton Road.
15. John Walter Sarvis - Son of an architect. Born in Clapham, lived in Maybury Hill.
16. Richard William Saunders - Son of a school headmaster. Born in Woking, lived at Maybury School House.
17. William G. Smith -
18. Wilfred Edward Threadgold - Son of a colliery agent. Born in Twickenham, lived in Ferndale Road.
19. Robert Wasley - Possibly William Wasley who lived in Woking.
20. Stanley W. Atkins -
21. Frank William Beal - Son of a gardener. Born and lived in Bisley. Died in 1980.
22. Richard T. Currie - Son of a carrier. Born in Houghton, Norfolk, lived in Ottershaw.
23. Charles Alexander Gingell - Son of a farmer. Born in Woodford, Essex, lived at St Georges Hill, Weybridge.
24. Cyril Ralph Holbourn - Son of an Army Major. Born in St. Helier, Jersey, lived at Inkerman Barracks. Enlisted in WW1 but died of pneumonia while training in 1918, the schools only old boy to die in WW1.
25. Edward Howell -
26. Percival J. Huggins - Born in Dalham, Suffolk, lived in Station Road, Addlestone.
27. Charles F. Kent -
28. Albert Henry Martin - Son of a farmer. Born in Pirbright, lived at Manor Farm, Pirbright.
29. George H. Maslin - Son of a railway worker.
30. William Harry G. Pearce - Son of a gardener. Born in Streatham, lived in Esher.
31. Roy Newling Rawes - Son of a school headmaster. Born in Send, lived at The School House, Send.
32. Harold C. Renshaw - Son of a dairyman. Born in Woking, lived in Goldsworth Road.
33. John Field Sanders - Son of a butcher. Born in Streatham, lived in Woodbridge Hill, Guildford.
34. Basil Ernest Stephenson - Son of an accountant. Born in Bosley, Oxfordshire, lived in Chobham Road.
35. Dudley Thomas Threadgold - Born in Woking, younger brother of Wilfred Threadgold (qv).
36. Wilfred Tuddenham - Son of a works manager. Born in Wolverton, Bucks, lived in Maybury Road.
37. Harold Russell Weller - Son of a waterworks chief clerk. Born in Frimley, lived in Farnborough.
38. Sydney Arthur Weston - Son of a house painter. Born in Woking, lived in Hermitage Road, Knaphill.
39. Frederick Joseph Yeardsley - Son of a gardener. Born in Woolton, Lancashire, lived in Lyne, Chertsey.
40. Albert Daborn -
41. Stanley Theadore Dark - Son of a hairdresser. Born in Woking, lived in Chobham Road.
42. William Alexander Hart - Son of a printers reader. Born in Woking, lived in Kingsway.
43. William Ernest Inder - Died 1992.
44. Gordon Ernest Maxwell - His father owned E H Maxwell and Sons the music shop in Heathside Crescent. Born in Woking, lived in Guildford Road.
45. Charles Miller - Son of a railway carrier. Born in Pirbright, lived in Pinewood, Pirbright.
46. Hector Wallace Reid - Son of a post office overseer. Born in Battersea, lived in Maybury Hill.
47. Leonard Talbot - Son of a coal merchant. Born in Woking, lived in Maybury Road.
48. Leonard Walters - 

A brief history of the school

A brief history of the school published in the final school magazine in 1976.

1914 - School opens in September. Joshua Holden as Headmaster, with 48 boys and 3 masters.
1915 - School cadet corps is formed.
1916 - Houses introduced. North, south, east and west depending on where boys lived.
1918 - Old Boys association formed.
1919 - First issue of the school magazine (price 9d). 320 Boys on register.
1921 - A. D. Campbell becomes Second Master.
1922 - T. D. Threadgold , School Captain, becomes first boy to win Open University Scholarship. He was last of the original intake and in 1950 became the first old boy to be appointed governor. First Old Boys dinner, parents cricket match, French exchange.
1923 - Loop Road sports field bought for £450 to replace the recreation ground.
1924 - Parent's Association formed.
1925 - A. F. Pool becomes the first old boy to graduate (London).
1929 - The pavilion opens at Loop Road.
1930 - H. Stewart-Brown becomes Hon. Sec. of the Parents Association.
1932 - A. D. Campbell becomes Chairman of Woking U.D.C. The school motto 'Justly, Skillfully, Magnanimously' is adopted from Milton's tractate on education. The houses are renamed Drake, Raleigh, Hawkins and Nelson. J. Holden retires as head to be succeeded by W. J. Huggins.
1933 - School badge of a winged torch is adopted. Drama society formed.
1935 - Boxing introduced.
1937 - S. Swallow gains schools first open exhibition to Cambridge.
1938 - W. J. Huggins leaves to be replaced as Head by G. H. Lester.
1939-1945 - School shares with Wandsworth Grammar School.
1939 - A. H. Jones retires after 21 years service as master.
1940 - L. Walker, Physics Master, dies after 21 years service.
1941 - Air Training Corps formed. E. F. Hamer, Maths Master, retires after 22 years service.
1942 - G. H. Lester, Head since 1938, dies.
1943 - G. S. Humphreys becomes Headmaster.
1944 - H. Goldring, English Master for 24 years, dies.
1946 - 494 Boys on register.
1947 - E. W. Tong, Chemistry Master, retires after 21 years. First post war French exchange.
1948 - A. D. Campbell retires after 33 years. E. J. Leury, Maths Master, retires after 30 years service. Rigby Hardaker appointed Second Master. School play, The Merchant of Venice, taken to Norway and performed in front of the Norwegian Royal Family. New kitchen and dining hall opened.
1949 - R. V. Church retires after 31 years as producer of the school play. Stage curtains and procenium provided as a tribute to his work. The carved oak chair, table, lectern, bible and plaque presented as a war memorial bu members of the school, parents association and old boys is dediocated by Canon Banham.
1950 - H. Stewart Brown retires after 30 years of service. Electric organ presented by Mrs Lester in memory of her son is dedicated by the Bishop of Guildford. Staff/Parents receptions begin. School loses by one point in BBC Radio's Top of the Form.
1951 - G. S. Humphries leaves as headmaster to be replaced by M. P. Smith.
1953 - Mrs E. M. Botten retires after 35 years service.
1954 - First school trek lead by the Headmaster.
1956 - First German exchange.
1958 - New library opened.
1959 - K. Fudge takes over leadership of school treks.
1960 - School roll reaches 503. New chemistry block opens. School field at Loop Road extended over adjacent allotments.
1961 - M. P. Smith leaves as headmaster and is replaced by J. L. Goode. Canon Banham retires from the governing body after 33 years.
1962 - A. G. Evershed is succeeded by R. G. Beldam as Chairman of Governors.
1963 - School raises £614 in aid of World Freedom From Hunger. School loses by one point in BBC TV Top Of The Form. First ski holiday.
1964 - Jubilee fete and service of thanksgiving. J. C. Moore retires after 10 years of service, H. L. Savage retires after 16 years of service. First French exchange with La Chaux-De-Fonds.
1967 - J. W. Gray, head of Modern Languages dies after 24 years of service.
1968 - R. Root retires after 16 years service, G. H. K. Minney retires after 23 years service. Dr R. J. Otter, head of mathematics retires after 18 tears of service. J. Kirk, school caretaker for 19 years dies.
1969 - J. C. Everleigh, head of art retires after 35 years service.
1970 - R. G. Beldam retires from Board of Governors after 14 years of service.
1971 - 'Kite' is published, a 16 page photo-litho offset experimental magazine. L. C. B. Seaman, head of History Department retires after 11 years. C. J. Talbot retires as editor of 'The Wokingian' after 17 years.
1972 - Announcement made that school would close in July 1976. Miss J. E. Allberry retires after 21 years as school secretary. R. Hardaker, Head of Latin, retires after 31 years.
1973 - School closure announced by Secretary of State, later put back to July, 1977. A. G. Evershed MBE retires after 21 years as governor. He is succeeded by Mrs M. E. Richardson.
1975 - A. Le B. McGugan, Head of French retires after 17 years.
1976 - I. P. Alexander, Head of English retires after 31 years.
1977 - School closes after 63 years.

School captains

1918-19 F. J. Yeardsley
1919-20 H. Renshaw
1920-22 T. D. Threadgold
1922-23 R. W. Blaxland
1923-24 J. A. Bassett
1924-25 S. D. Threadgold
1925-27 R. H. Tann
1927-28 R. W. Westcott
1928-1930 D. P. Briant
1930-31 R. G. Hall
1931-32 E. A. Blackwell
1932-33 R. N. Coote
1933-34 H. C. Salisbury
1934-35 M. G. Church
1935-36 K. A. Carrdus
1936-37 D. G. Church
1937-39 J. Rathborn
1939- 1940 F. K. Charter
1940-42 M. Johnson
1942-43 W. J. O'Connell
1943-44 J. E. B. Mitchell
1944-45 W. J. Herrington
1945-46 E. D. Ashbee
1946-47 J. E. Simmons
1947-48 D. S. Teague
1948-49 D. G. Dedman
1949-1950 R. J. Seymour/J. L. Martin/J. L. Chaldecott
1950-51 J. A. Backhouse/A. J. Brackin
1951-52 F. B. Walter
1952-53 R. L. Turvill
1953-54 M. J. Webb
1954-56 P. T. Hammond
1956-57 L. B. Fraser
1957-58 B. L. Jones
1958-59 T. D. Hands
1959-1960 R. W. Polhill
1960-61 C. Hulse
1961-62 J, W. Bragg
1962-63 T. Hulse
1963-64 A. M. Henderson
1964-65 P. B. Rumsey
1965-66 D. Ogden
1966-67 G.J. Otter/P. J. Diaper
1967-68 M. G. Edmunds/S. F. Singleton
1968-69 S. F. Singleton
1969-1970 A. P. R. Bignall/J. A. Crittenden
1970-71 J. H. C. Morgan/I. L. Sargent
1971-72 J. P. Ladd/P. H. Attfield
1972-73 D. J. Levy/S. Gutteridge
1973-74 A. S. D. Price
1974-75 M. P. Barber/J. M. Wythe
1975-76 R. Moore
1976-77 T. Eglen