Some people are surprised to learn that Boston Grammar School’s main winter sport is football (soccer). The stereotype of a grammar school is one which plays mainly rugby. The featured…
Panoramic school photographs
2nd June 2020
2nd June 2020
Between the 1930s and the 1960s a photographer would sometimes come into the school with a special panoramic camera which enabled him to take a photograph of the whole school…
War memorials
2nd June 2020
2nd June 2020
The school has war memorials for former students who died in the First World War and the Second World War. They can both be found in the school’s library. The…
School publications
2nd May 2020
2nd May 2020
I am sometimes asked about school magazines. It sounds like a simple matter but it can quickly become complicated when you realise how many different magazines, newspapers and newsletters have…
Girls at Boston Grammar School
1st May 2020
1st May 2020
Boston Grammar School was founded in 1555 and remained solely a school for boys until the 1950s. There had been female teachers during the First and Second World Wars, replacing…
Profile – Chris Marshall
1st May 2020
1st May 2020
Chris Marshall was probably the most successful athlete that Boston Grammar School has produced. He attended the school between 1973 and 1980. At his peak he was beating future stars…
Profile – Jonathan Van-Tam
3rd April 2020
3rd April 2020
Jonathan Van-Tam has been in the news a lot recently. He is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England and has been one of the chief expert spokesmen in the…
Floreat Bostona – The school song
31st March 2020
31st March 2020
Floreat Bostona is the school song of Boston Grammar School. The Latin and English words were written by George Edwin Pattenden, who referred to it as “my school hymn”. On the OBA…
OBA committee could welcome more remote members
15th March 2020
15th March 2020
For a number of years there have been members of the Old Bostonian committee who lived far enough from Boston that they have attended meetings at best occasionally. Obviously this…
2020 Quiz night report
13th March 2020
13th March 2020
The quiz night was held at the Boston & County Club under the spectre of the Corvid-19 virus. Richard Anderson (BGS staff 1971-2014) was the quiz master for the evening…