1 - Form IIIb in 1948/49 (1 boy, Guest, is absent) - taken outside the "Classroom in the Field",
which later was completed as the Rifle Range:
Back row, l to r: Kerridge, Wetherall, Parker, Stirk, Goss, Blandamer, Redshaw, Voysey, Hawker;
3rd row: Foster, Osborne, Bugg, King, Mr NMS Roussel, Woodford, White, Rowland;
2nd row: Dean, Buckler, Biggs, Cox, May, Bellinger;
Front row: Galloway, Nother, Marsh, Firth.
Photo courtesy of Geoffrey Goss.
2 - Mick Guy. Photo courtesy of Geoffrey Goss.
3 - Dorchester Grammar School Sixth Formers 1951:
Standing: Lamb, Rex Shutler, Gordon Jones, Desmond Long, Terry Parsons, Bill Fox (elder son of Maths Master Sam
Fox), Toby Read, John Moore;
Seated: Kemp, Michael Parsons, Donald Culver, Roland Mason, Ian Carr (Head Boy 1950-51), Rowan Conn, Tony Osborne, Alec Smith,
David Hardwicke;
Squatting: Bob Farrow, Richard Frampton.
Photo courtesy of Terry Parsons.
4 - Senior Boys 1953. Left to right:
Back row: D Nickell, G Hickmore, C Bullocke, R Mundy, Ellwood, A Croad;
Middle row: P Swindells, J Rawlins, J Dutot, D Kemp, G Welch, H Wells-Furby;
Front row: FV Dean, G Cleaver, M Turner.
Photo courtesy of John Rawlins.
Left: 5 - Chris Etheringtom & Peter Sedgwick.
Right: 6 - Peter Sedgwick, Robin Graham, Chris Etherington, Sid Collins & Peter Neale, 1954.
Photos courtesy of Peter Sedgwick.
7 - Not strictly an Old Hardyeans photo, but the boarders all (plus many Dorchester townsfolk) were serenaded
by the St. Peter's Church choir every Sunday during term.
Here we see, in the left-hand group, Bryan White at the front, David Trickey (2nd boy back), John Hunt (5th boy back),
with Canon Markby at the rear.
In the right-hand line, the blond lad fourth from the front is Alan Potter, and is that Tony Davis behind him?
(I even sang in this choir myself in later years, in spite of my atheist persuasion!)
(Photo courtesy of John Hunt)
Two photos courtesy of John Fuller: 8 - Left: Tom Worthington; 9 - Right: John Fuller, circa 1958.
Left: 10 - R.R. Thomas (Economics and Sixth Form master). It was end of term in 1959 and Eric Church (that's his arm in the picture) was trying to get the better of Mr Thomas with a card trick, saying "Come on Sir, take a card". John Ratcliffe is enjoying the show in the background.
Right: 11 - Taken at the corner of the sports pavilion/changing rooms.
Back row: Bryan Stanley, J.R.Wellesley-Miller, Richard Loveys, Tony King,
Mike Snelling (mafia "shades" have replaced chalk smoking!), Eddie King ("H"), W.J.Pope (Will), John Ratcliffe,
Richard Pretty, Chris Moore;
Middle: Richard Cole;
Front row: Ron Cave, Eric Church, Peter Lawrence.
Photos courtesy of Paul Handley.
12 - Taken behind the cricket pavilion.
("I think we were meant to be revising for exams" - Paul Handley.)
From left to right: John Ratcliffe, Richard Loveys, Eric Church, Mike Snelling (smoking a piece of chalk!),
Andrew Nickell, Richard Pretty.
Photo courtesy of Paul Handley.
Two photos courtesy of Geoff Standring: 13 - Left: Dickie Duckett, Malcolm Freeth, Tom Worthington,
Michael James, John Hunt and Ian Taylor.
The location looks like the Biology/1st-yr Sixth Hut.
14 - Right: No idea! Could this be in the Signals Hut? Help please, Geoff!
Two more from Geoff:
15 - Left: Back Row: Ian Taylor, Graham Allen, Roger Townsend, Michael James,
Dick Luther, John Morley?, our Caretaker George Bareham.
Front Row: Archie McCulloch, Bob Simpson?, ?, ?.
16 - Right: Standing: Ian Taylor, R Bower, Chris Nother; crouching:
Tim Reiss, Michael James; seated: Philip Short, Graham Allen.
More of Geoff's: 17 - Left: Pete Old and lady (did she become Pete's old lady?), and...
18 - right: Back row Chris Kiddy, RJ Watkins, Philip Short and Roger Norman; front row centre is Alan Kenway.
19 - Posing at South Walks House: R Davies, DMJ Turner, Peter Warrick, John Pearson, Peter Stevenson, Mike Grigsby. (Photo courtesy of John Pearson)
20 - High Jinks - were exams over? Tony Davis, John Hunt, Tony Ford, R Davies, GF Batstone, Alan Kenway, Clive Seward, Colin Sharpe, R Bower.
Two more of John Hunt: 21 - Left, sporting his School Colours, and...
22 - right, how he earned them.
Looks like someone is trying to shut him up! Extreme left is Tony Williams in his usual scrum half position.
(Photo courtesy of John Hunt)
Two informal groups of Heathcote inmates:
23 - Left: Messrs Carder, Crewe, Holmes & Diffey on the quay at Southampton in 1957;
24 - Right: Messrs Gale, Allgood, Birrell, Lean-Vercoe, Diffey, Sharpe, & Cunningham enjoying the delights of
Weymouth beach, having cycled down from Dorchester after taking O and A levels.
Photos courtesy of Jack Crewe
25 - Left: Ian Diffey; 26 - Right: The French Lesson proceeds under Mr Cruse, with Messrs Seaward, Gale, Jones, Ventham, Coe and ?. Photo courtesy of Jack Crewe.
Chess activities at Hardye's: 27 - Left: RJ Gale, W Fielden, IE Diffey, WS Easton, J Sonley, JE Crewe,
PJ Cunningham 1956;
28 - Right: 1961 Hardye's Chess Club - PH Stevenson, CD Gay, SJ Jones, RL Coe, JE Crewe,
Mr Hutchinson. Jack Crewe went on to play chess for Hampshire County.