Soham Grammarians - 1956-57 Form I (entry year)

Form 1T seating plan

Form 1S Mr SR Saunders Bailey R Bashford C Butcher R Dean RL Durrant RM Ellingham D Else R Gamble B Gray P Howe N Jarvis N Ling Manning DE Martin M Ogden RPR Patterson N Pollard G Reynolds T Rudd C Salmon S Simpson J Smith T Strevens M Thulborn B Tingey W Whiting K Whymer I

Form 1T Mr RA Taylor Aves PJ d Barnett A Baumber DL Butler AD Chester B Clay D Daly J Docherty H East J Fisher M Fuller GI Ginn J Gregory J Howard NDW Lovett D Long NV Mallion P Maxwell N Murfet G Pearce E Pollard M Poole S Register R Rouse G Sandham R Smith E d Smith RJ Tassell A Venney R Warne I White I Woodroffe R

source: Roger Smith 56 - updated Apr 2020: d = has died
"Form 1T I am pretty confident of, but Robbie Butcher may have been in 1T not 1S as I have written.
There must also be some missing from 1S."

SGS - started Sep 1956 FORM LVI Arts 1961-62 list Mr TL Riley No of boys: 8 Aves, PJ Cornes, P East, J Manning, DE Ogden, RP Rogers, MC Rouse, G Sandham, R

SGS - started Sep 1956 FORM LVI Science 1961-62 list Mr CJ Ford No of boys: 18 Ball, GJ Baumber, DL Butler, AD Daly, JM Dean, RL Docherty, WH Durrant, RM Else, RW Gamble, B Hood, REG Pollard, GC Poole, SJ Register, RP Reynolds, TM Smith, EGR White, I Whymer, IJ Woodroffe, R

SGS - started Sep 1956 FORM LVI Technical 1961-62 list Mr EH Tabraham No of boys: 8 Benson, RD Ellingham, DP Fuller, GI Harper, R Howard, NDW Leonard, JL Rudd, CW Starling, GD

source: Philip Oakes 61

Gwyn Murfet 15 May 10: FORM 1T Seating plan - September 1956 (Ian White Form Captain)

	Master’s Desk		Blackboard		Door
	Register R	White I	Ginn	Fuller	Aves
Woodruffe	Rouse	Poole	Gregory	Fisher	(not Bailey, but who?)
Warne	Sandham	Pollard M	Howard	East	Barnett
Venney	Smith EGR	Pierce	Levitt	Docherty WH	Baumber
	Smith R	Murfet	Long	Daly	Butcher
	Tassell A	Maxwell	Mallion	Clay	Chester

This makes 33 whereas I thought we numbered 32, but my memory may be deceiving me! Wasn’t originally happy with the first row, and had initially written “Aves, Barnett, Baumber, Butcher, Butler, Chester”, but then realised I had missed out Bailey, and on further reflection concluded that Butler had been in 1S. Certainly Chester was in that far corner, with Clay back row next across. As I recall, Pierce left during the first year to go to Australia, and received much flack especially from Punch, who concluded that his parents must have known they were emigrating when they accepted the place at SGS. What that then did to seating I can’t remember, as I don’t remember an empty seat!

10/4/20 Gwyn Murfet: My 1T form list (from memory) is certainly incorrect as Robin Bailey was in 1S.
However neither Roger Smith nor I can place Butcher - 1T or 1S?

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