In 1957 David Wright took up the joint posts of Organist & Choirmaster at St. Botolph’s (the Stump) and music master at Boston Grammar School which he would continue to…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…