ECSOSA Archives

'The archives' of the School and Association include such things as school magazines, Speech Day programmes, and photographs. The Archive Group meets regularly to sort through the School's collection. Maureen Bealby, Frank Wallder and Beryl Cushion have been particularly active in this area and would welcome other volunteers to lend a hand. It is intended that the archive material will be converted into 'electronic' formats over time and it can then be made more widely available.

As compilation of the records progresses the gaps in the collections will be revealed and it will be possible to publish the catalogue on the website and appeal for help in locating specific items. As things stand it seems that more issues of the school magazines have survived than was feared might be the case but Stag magazines and programmes for Speech Day and sports and drama events are a little thin on the ground.

If anyone does have any old material relating to the School and the Association they are asked to keep it safe so it can be saved for posterity. It might well be the only copy of that material left that will ever come to light. Please don't think it has to be really old either as there are 'missing" items even from the last decade.

Photos from the archives

From time to time Beryl will be making a selection of photos from the archives covering one or more years of the school's history and these will presented on the photos pages. The photos might be taken from the school magazines, from other materials in the archives, or they may be snapshots lent to her by the members. If anyone wishes to lend such material it would be particularly useful if for it to be dated and labelled. Beryl would particularly welcome original photos as those in old school magazines do not tend to reproduce so well.

A complete School Magazine from the 1930s

The July 1936 issue of the school magazine has been scanned in and is presented here on the website.