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stuartpearce36
  • May 19, 2021
  • 1 min

Joe Pengelly (1936-43)

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...
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stuartpearce36
  • May 19, 2021
  • 3 min

John Roger Yates - 1951-1958

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...
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stuartpearce36
  • May 19, 2021
  • 12 min

Memories of Penzance – Bob Rickard

Robert Cole’s memories of his wartime evacuation to Penzance awakened memories of my own. He and I have complementary stories. He and I...
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stuartpearce36
  • May 19, 2021
  • 6 min

Maurice Brereton 1941-1945

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...
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stuartpearce36
  • Mar 2, 2021
  • 7 min

John Yates Williams (1950-8)

Reminiscences of life at Cody High School Detroit I was awarded an American Field Service Scholarship (AFS) in 1958 when in the 3rd year...
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stuartpearce36
  • Mar 2, 2021
  • 6 min

Barrie Rundle

Pupil at Devonport High School for Boys 1939-1946 Started at Belmont Methodist Church. DHS had rooms for 1st years at these premises...
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stuartpearce36
  • Mar 2, 2021
  • 12 min

Robert Cole

Robert Cole’s memories of his wartime evacuation to Penzance awakened memories of my own. He and I have complementary stories. He and I...
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stuartpearce36
  • Mar 1, 2021
  • 22 min

Robert George Coles

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...
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stuartpearce36
  • Feb 25, 2021
  • 3 min

GRAHAM WILLIAM ASHWORTH CBE DL

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...
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Juliet Sidney
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • 4 min

Malcolm Eastcott

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...
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Juliet Sidney
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • 3 min

Peter Wright

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...
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Juliet Sidney
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • 2 min

Frank Ernest Gerrish

Frank Ernest Gerrish 1919-2013 Frank was born in Kent but came to live in Plymouth in 1923 when his father was appointed superintendent...
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Juliet Sidney
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • 2 min

David Morton

He then began a forty year career with Alcan, progressing from assistant manager of the company's sheet mill in Banbury to managing...
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Juliet Sidney
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • 4 min

Alan Eddy

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