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Erskine – after Canon John Erskine Clarke, a former vicar of Battersea and member of the Sir Walter St John Trust at the time of the establishment of the school; Dawnay – after Sir Archibald Davis Dawnay, Mayor of Wandsworth from 1908 until his death on 23 April 1919 and a benefactor of the school.
The Evacuation of Battersea Grammar School to WHSB 1939. Few Old Boys now remain who remember the episode in the life of WHSB when Battersea Grammar School was evacuated to Worthing at the start of WW2 and shared our school premises. Reproduced below are two pieces that appeared in the 1949 issue of The Azurian that commemorated the first 25 ...
The outbreak of World War II in 1939 prompted the evacuation of the school from Abbotswood Road. The school initially moved to Worthing, where it was accommodated by Worthing Grammar School. The worsening outlook in 1940 resulted in another move in the middle of that year, this time to Hertford, where it shared the buildings of Hertford Grammar School (now the Richard Hale School).
From the back page of the Battersea Grammar School Magazine, Autumn Term 1950. "OLD GRAMMARIANS ASSOCIATION TO BOYS LEAVING SCHOOL Mr Spooner is...
School Location 1875-1936. The following January the Rev E A Richardson was appointed headmaster of the Sir Walter St John’s Upper School, which was very soon renamed Battersea Grammar School, and which opened on 12 April 1875. For the first five years the school ran at a loss. The governors were then told by the Charity Commissioners to put ...
October saw the publication of the Michaelmas Term edition of the Battersea Grammar School magazine. The magazine contains the usual mix of school and Old Boy news, demonstrating that some aspects of life carried on unchanged by the war, whilst others were more affected. The Headmaster’s notes make clear some of the things which had changed:
