Looking for a good historical description

Hi
I am looking for the original source of what is now a mangled description on the revised Friendsreunited site.
Does anyone have a copy of the original full version, or know where one can be found, or recognise any part of the following extract, which starts and ends in the middle of a sentence

cy ( chairman of the West Riding Committee ) opened under the happiest auspices. The boys of the old school would form a nucleus of the new pupils and the headmaster, Mr. J.E.Shipley Turner, M.A. who had been in charge of that school for the last few years, had been appointed headmaster of the new school. The governing body contained representatives of Brooke's Trustees, and there was every ground for confident expectation that the new school would not only carry forward worthily the traditions of the old foundation, but would offer to the younger generation of Thorne and neighbouring townships those facilities for higher education so necessary to a part of the West Riding administration area rapidly growing in importance. Olive Hooton (nee Bell)House Warren. 1 alpha - 5 alpha inc.

All assistance appreciated.
Ray

Trinity Academy Results

I thought members, particularly those from the teaching profession, would be interested to read the results achieved in Trinity this year.  It is seven years since TGS (Comprehensive) closed and the first set of pupils to go through the Academy from 1st Form (Year 7) to Upper VI have just received their A level results and confirmation of their university offers. Click the link:

http://www.emmanuelctc.org.uk/trinityacademy/news/article.php?id=5192

Closure of TGS site on Multiply

Many of you will have seen the notice published by Multiply management yesterday announcing the 1st December closure of the facilities that host the Thorne Grammar School web site.  If you missed it, a copy is available below.  

The site was started by Mark Hepworth as an MSN Group in 2001, and transferred to Multiply in Dec 2008 when MSN Groups closed. It has been used to organise 3 major reunions each attracting hundreds of former pupils, and dozens of smaller reunions of friends and single year groups. It has provided a forum for an exchange of views on a surprising number of topics over a period of nearly twelve years.  It has reunited many old friends and created many new ones.  And it has provided an archive of photographs and documents consisting of nearly 3,000 images and text files. These archives are by far the most popular feature of the site, attracting many more visitors than any other feature.

The present administrators have run the site for the last 10 years, and organised the transfer of the site in 2008.  Being conscious of the difficulty of finding a new host who will provide equivalent facilities at no cost to the members,  they have decided that they will take no action to keep the TGS site in operation after December 1st.  

But they will offer every assistance possible to anyone who wishes to take on the challenge of finding and managing a new TGS site, including any help required to transfer documents, photos and other records pertinent to TGS.  We have yet to see precisely what migration or download software Multiply will provide to facilitate the transfer of the site (see the notice below). 

In the absence of a volunteer to take on the task, the site will no longer exist after 1st December.    

Keith Williams

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Notice from Multiply HQ in Jakarta, Indonesia. 

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I suspect that many of you will not like this news, and am sorry to have to deliver it now. I hope that you will be able to understand the reasons for our decision and thank you for being a part of the Multiply community over the past eight years. 

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Olympics

Anyone from Thorne going to the Olympics? I have tickets for the Eventing dressage and Xc.

Travelling by train, tube, river Clipper ship and coach over 2 days. Should be interesting if it all works out!  Getting quite excited by it all now. Unfortunately not like normal Horse Trials as there are no stalls to spend all our money on so at least it will be cheaper than usual!

 

Jubilee

I went to London to see the pageant and to go to my son's street party. He lives at no.7 and I got chatting to the man from no.22. He has lived there for 40 years. I asked him where he was from and he said " a little village in Yorkshire" which of course turned out to be Thorne. He went to TGS and left the year after me in 1958. He is Bob Robinso. He has an older sister. Ros, who still lives in Thorne and brothers, one called Paul. He became a headmaster and taught abroad for a number of years. Coincidence or not?

Getting Older

Mick thinks this will hit home with many of us. Please don't let him down

Over to you Mick..........you can go first.

The Site Rules - OK ?

The Site Rules

1. The purpose of this alumni site is:

To provide a medium for announcements of general interest to former pupils and staff of Thorne Grammar School.

To provide a social forum and encourage social contact between former pupils and staff of Thorne Grammar School.

To preserve the history, traditions and achievements and other records of Thorne Grammar School.

To protect and enhance the reputation of Thorne Grammar School and its former pupils and staff.


2. The site is managed by the Administrators, aka The Management Team.

3. The site is run as a Multiply Groups Restricted site, that is to say the group is listed in the Multiply Groups data base and anyone may view the Welcome Page, but only members may read the Blogs, post messages, view or post photographs and the other historical material on the site.

4. Anyone applying to become a member must give the years he/she joined and left TGS, and the name by which he/she was known at school, in the "About Me" box on their personal Multiply site.

5. Any member may contribute messages to the Blogs, elect to receive messages by e-mail, contribute pictures or documents to the Photo albums. Documents, or amendments to documents, to appear as Notes can only be posted by an Administrator, who will receive requests from members.

6. No member may take any action on the site that is in conflict with the Multiply Terms of Service, and particularly the rules for content posted by members, which can be read in full at http://multiply.com/info/tos. In particular that code forbids the use of indecent, offensive, illegal or defamatory contributions, or the misuse of data or contributions supplied by other members.

7. The Management Team may add, rename, reorder, edit, hide, or delete pages and folders on the site, update the site description, policy settings, and categories of membership.

8. The Management Team may send e-mail messages to all members registered on the site.

9. The Management Team may delete contributions from members which do not meet the requirements of paragraphs 1, 4 or 6 above.

10. The Management Team may bar from further membership any individual who makes contributions which in The Management Team's opinion repeatedly or flagrantly fail to meet the requirements of paragraphs 1, 4 or 6 above.

Thorne Grammar School 6th Form Closure

Local TV News Report featuring a lot of angry people.
Date around 2000.

TGS Magazines 1921 and 1927

The Grammar School

Did anyone else see the two part documentary on the Grammar School on BBC4.  If not you can catch up on the BBC IPlayer by following this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0197znp/episodes/guide

If you did see it, what did you think?

[ Added on 20 Jan at 19:52.   Well, I'm sorry about the link.  When I put it there a few days ago, it took you to a page on the iPlayer site that allowed you to play either or both episodes.  But now, it seems, the BBC has decided to remove the programmes and has replaced them with a couple of very brief descriptions of the programmes].