DHSB Alumni & Archives

We are very grateful to Joe Pengelly (1936-43) for being the first Old Boy to provide some spoken recollections not only of his life and...

I have to say that my time at DHS were the happiest years of my life. The friendships I made last to this day. I never found study...

Robert Cole’s memories of his wartime evacuation to Penzance awakened memories of my own. He and I have complementary stories. He and I...

Devonport High School in Penzance. I joined the school in the First form in Penzance in September 1941. Prior to this I had attended Hyde...

Reminiscences of life at Cody High School Detroit I was awarded an American Field Service Scholarship (AFS) in 1958 when in the 3rd year...

Pupil at Devonport High School for Boys 1939-1946 Started at Belmont Methodist Church. DHS had rooms for 1st years at these premises...

Robert Cole’s memories of his wartime evacuation to Penzance awakened memories of my own. He and I have complementary stories. He and I...

AWAY TO SCHOOL On 9th September 1943, Mum took me into war-ravaged Plymouth, dressed in my brand new school uniform. I was to join a...

Graham was born in Plymouth in 1935, an only child of Frederick and Ivy Ash worth. He lived in Bristol for the first three years of WWII...

Malcolm Eastcott. D.H.S.B 1943—1948. (With apologies for the any missing 3 i’s! ) Year 1. So this brown envelope announced I had passed...

1953 - 1960 I was only a first former (are they still called ‘scruffs’ as we were in 1953?) when I decided to take French seriously. It...

Frank Ernest Gerrish 1919-2013 Frank was born in Kent but came to live in Plymouth in 1923 when his father was appointed superintendent...

He then began a forty year career with Alcan, progressing from assistant manager of the company's sheet mill in Banbury to managing...

Born 4th November 1926, St Just in Penwith Cornwall, Died: 24th October 2017, Disley Cheshire. A. A. Eddy, Biochemist, Emeritus Professor...