Keighley Boys' Grammar School
www.kbgs.com


Faculty and prefects
In 1935 KBGS was headed by Neville Hind, MA (Cantab) who arrived in 1933 and soldiered on for many years. He died on York Railway Station platform of a heart attack (see cutting below).

Some of the masters in 1935 were still there in 1962 (see below).

 

 

Lists & group photos

Retirements & obits

Individual photos

 

List of Masters c1935

Prefects 1939

Prefects 1940

School Prefects 1945-6

Masters 1948

 Comments

 

KBGS Prefects 1952

List of Masters 1955

Watthey's Prefects 1959

Comment from Terry Marston

List of Masters 1961-62

Prefects 1964-65  

 

List of Masters 1967-68

 

 

 

 

Retirement of E. Marsden 1947

Twyford Summer 1948 & Photo

H. M. Pighills’ obituary 1955

Retirement of George Cadman, from a 1955 Keighlian

Retirement of Neville Hind, from the 1958 Keighlian Photo

Neville Hind - Newspaper report of his death

Retirement of Arnold Birch, from a 1958 Keighlian Photo

 

Gilbert Swift obituary 2000

 

Milton’s retirement

 

Stockdale in 1961 retirement presentation (1962 or 1965)

 

Madeline Seaton Berrington  Obituary in newspaper c1961? Alternative photo

 

H. M. Pighills Summer 1946

 

Clifford Whone

Write-up

 

Wilbur Bloomfield

Taken at the new school in Oakbank

 

L. G. Clarke - new head 1970

Comment from A. Smith

 

AE Watthey

Arthur Watthey

William (Bill) Louis Midgley  Comment from A. Smith.            

Wilbur Bloomfield

Taken at the new school in Oakbank

 

Mr. E. S. Robinson - German Teacher

 

'Harry' Harpin in a Silsden Newsletter' of 1996

 

'Harry' Harpin

ex-KBGS Art Master, taken shortly before he died in Assisi, Italy

'Harry' Harpin

also in Italy

 

Harpin pictures from '30's to late-40's., when Harry lived at Swartha: 1 2 3 4 5 6

 

Painting by HarryHarpin with Tom Bell Jr.

 

Harry Harpin and sister

 

 


Copyright Chris Firth 2008.