West Mon Prospectus 1930s Pages 10-11
Jones' West Monmouthshire Grammar School for Boys was opened in 1898 from a legacy left by the Haberdasher William Jones on land craftily donated by Squire Hanbury to win over the executors who were looking for a site for a new school. The school was run by the Haberdashers, the school badge being their crest, until 1954 when it was taken over by Monmouthshire County Council as a Grammar School under the 1944 Education Act. In 1958, boarding ceased at the school ending the distinction between "boarders" and "day boys". In 1980 the school became a comprehensive, shed the school badge and tie link to the Haberdashers, and, shock horror, became co-ed!
This prospectus for potential boarders probably dates from the 1930s, the Headmaster Ivor Jones serving as Headmaster at the school from 1912-1942.
The school was remarkable when opened in 1898 in having a swimming pool. When I was there in the 1960s, initially swimming was done nude after a boy drowned in the pool in 1947 after his trunks got caught in a grid at the bottom. Unbelievably, the pool has, I am told, been converted into an art gallery. In the 1960s the gym looked unchanged from this photograph.
West Mon Prospectus 1930s Pages 10-11
Jones' West Monmouthshire Grammar School for Boys was opened in 1898 from a legacy left by the Haberdasher William Jones on land craftily donated by Squire Hanbury to win over the executors who were looking for a site for a new school. The school was run by the Haberdashers, the school badge being their crest, until 1954 when it was taken over by Monmouthshire County Council as a Grammar School under the 1944 Education Act. In 1958, boarding ceased at the school ending the distinction between "boarders" and "day boys". In 1980 the school became a comprehensive, shed the school badge and tie link to the Haberdashers, and, shock horror, became co-ed!
This prospectus for potential boarders probably dates from the 1930s, the Headmaster Ivor Jones serving as Headmaster at the school from 1912-1942.
The school was remarkable when opened in 1898 in having a swimming pool. When I was there in the 1960s, initially swimming was done nude after a boy drowned in the pool in 1947 after his trunks got caught in a grid at the bottom. Unbelievably, the pool has, I am told, been converted into an art gallery. In the 1960s the gym looked unchanged from this photograph.