Oral History Recordings and Memories

Arthur Maddocks attended MGS between 1932 and 1940. He was interviewed in November 2019 as part of an oral history project to record the memories of Old Mancunians who were at MGS during the war year…

The evacuation to Blackpool was a short-lived, if vivid interlude in MGS history. However, at the time, boys did not know that they would only be away for just over a month. Frank Thewlis attended M…

In 1931, MGS finally moved from its Long Millgate site in Manchester City Centre to the green fields of suburban Rusholme. The School had long attracted pupils from all over what is now Greater Manch…

The war affected various aspects of school life, including the way that many boys spent their holidays. Norman Davies (OM 1940 – 42) remembers the School encouraging boys to do their bit for the war…

It was always a risk to bring the School back from Blackpool onto a site on the edge of a densely populated area of an industrial city. The School did not escape unscathed. Autumn and Winter 1940 saw…

On this day 80 years ago, MGS boys and staff returned to Manchester after five weeks of evacuation in Manchester. Their return was on condition that the School buildings were furnished with air raid …

This September is the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, and in MGS history, 80 years since the School evacuated to Blackpool. Working with MGS archive material relating to the Great War …

Tilman Tumler came to MGS as a German Assistant in 1967. His time in Manchester and at MGS has stayed with him, and he revisited the School in Summer 2018. He has kindly agreed to write down some of …

The archives of institutions such as schools, colleges and universities are naturally full of records that have been generated by the bodies themselves. Examples include committee minutes, log books,…

Published in late 2016, Glimpse of Notes by Ian Davidson is a must for anyone interested in the history of MGS. Ian attended MGS between 1942 and 1951, and the book gives a vivid account of life at t…