http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/residents-young-and-old-relive-their-school-days-at-soham-exhibition-1-2019876
It featured a Soham resident, Mr Nigel Brynolf-Trett and a splendid blazer and tie worn by his late father Harold Arthur Trett who was a Soham Grammarian. Eventually Nigel was tracked down.
He says: My father kept his jacket all his life, though I’m not aware of him wearing it. I inherited it after his death.
He was born in 1913 and died in 2003 aged 90yrs. He got a scholarship to attend SGS. He worked in the Rates Department of the local council office all his life apart from a short time after he left school and his wartime service in the RAF.
He lived in Ely nearly all of his life, apart from a few years post-war when he lived in Cambridge, moving back to Ely in 1951 where he stayed for the rest of his life.
A cousin, the late Donald T Trett, was at SGS from 1943. I have
my father's Victor Ludorum cap circa 1932, cricket ball
(no details), photos and School Magazines from that period. Also
my father's medals won for different sporting events.
He is on the School Photo for May 1932 3/15 Row 2:3.
When I went for an interview for SGS two of us were waiting near the stairs waiting to see Mr Armitage. The other boy suddenly noticed the school bell hanging nearby and decided to give it a good ring. He then moved smartly away just as the headmaster came out.
Mr Armitage never said anything but I wonder if that had any effect in his decision to fail me.
