A VIRTUAL MUSEUM
INTRODUCTION
Human
beings are extremely careless over their ‘heritage’. Old Grammarians are no different. Bearing in mind the school probably began
life around the middle of the 13th Century,
Henry VIII did not help with the dissolution of the monasteries - bearing in
mind the close connection with schools and the Abbey. Then, in the mid 1960s, when most of the
In
the absence of much in the way of original source material we rely on the work
of historians such as Kennett Beecham’s A
History of Cirencester in 1887 and
in 1924 W St. Clair Baddeley’s work of the same
title, both of which contain a small amount of detail on the school as well as
the town.
Other
useful contributions are to be found in copies of The Cirencestrian, the school magazine
from 1919 to 1968, and The New Cirencestrian - the more recent magazine of the 1940s
Association from the late 1990s to the present time.
2005 Edition of The New Cirencestrian
Additionally there is
correspondence, including the final minute book of the former Old Grammarians
Association which was wound up
in 1975. Afterwards there was a gap of thirteen years
before a renewed interest in Old Grammarian matters in 1988.
Cuttings contained in the minutes book consisting of comment by Miss King;
and recording the death of Miss
Peach and pupils on the last day of school.
Minute recording the winding
up of the original Old Grammarians Association in 1975
By
far the most valuable secondary sources are of more recent vintage. John Ireland’s and Edwin Cuss’ The History of Cirencester Grammar School
and later Mr Cuss’ Looking Back at
Cirencester Grammar School, both published in the 1990s, provide the most
complete history published to date.
