Chronology

Members of the Association are working on a chronology of the school (and of the association itself). As a taster, a snapshot of the chronology as of October 2004 has been converted from the original Excel spreadsheet and is presented below. As can be seen there is a long way to go yet!

Having looked up the figures in the school performance tables, the webmaster has filled in details for the number of pupils from 1993–94 to 2002–03 to save anyone else the trouble. The figure in brackets is the number of the pupils of compulsory school age (so the number in the Sixth Form can be derived).

The house colours in the original chronology had St David and St Patrick swapped over.

Year	Event	Head	Building	#Staff	#Forms	Intake	#Pupils	Staff	Houses	Distinguished /Famous Pupils	OSA	Miscellany
1919	School Founded as Edmonton Central School	Mr Frank Belton (Boys) Miss B.W.Seward (Girls)	Croyland Road (Boys) Brettenham Road (Girls)	6	4	160	160		Bruce, Gordon, Shaftesbury, Wolfe (Boys) Blue, Green, Red, Yellow (Girls)			School Colours - Red, Blue & Gold
1920	First School Magazine (0.5d each)		Raynham Road (Girls)			160	320
1921
1922	Name changes to Edmonton County Secondary School
1923	First Sixth Form - 2 pupils									Daisy Ridgley Olympic Athlete Amsterdam 1928	OSA founded
1924	Sixth Form - 7 pupils    First Official School Magazine
1925
1926									Andrew (Blue) David (Yellow) George (Red) Patrick (Green)			First Thespians Play
1927			Technical Institute, Church Street (G&B)				400				Old Eds founded as Rugby Club
1928
1929		Mr James North		8								School Colours - Blue & Yellow
1930
1931	First Shakespeare School Play		Great Cambridge Road
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938										Basil Hoskins - actor Royal Shakespeare Company and TV
1939	Outbreak of WWII		School evacuated to Braintree
1940			Whitsun - school reopens for pupils who have returned home. September - whole school reassembles at Edmonton.
1941
1942										Norman (later Lord) Tebbitt - influential politician
1943		Mr H.B.Champion
1944
1945	WWII ends
1946										(later Sir) Roy Strong - distinguished Historian & Museum Curator (including V&A)
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967	Merges with Rowantree to become Edmonton School (Comprehensive) on two sites	Mr R.L.Hudson (continues) Mr E.J.McLeay (Lower School)	Great Cambridge Road (Upper) Rowantree, Little Bury Street (Lower)			8 Forms			Bedford Gloucester Richmond    York
1968
1969
1970										Kriss Akabusi - International Athlete & TV personality
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975		Mr John Hulley (also a pupil 1945-51)
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981											Death of Sid Perry
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993							1343 (1227)
1994							1407 (1276)
1995							1428 (1279)
1996	Name officially reverts to Edmonton County School	Mr Martin Rainsford					1475 (1281)
1997							1484 (1307)				First Universal Reunion
1998							1521 (1355)
1999							1586 (1346)
2000							1586 (1361)				Millenium Reunion
2001		M/s Linda Robinson					1601 (1352)
2002							1599 (1370)
2003
2004
2005											Third Reunion
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019	Schools Centenary

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