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Old Bostonian Association AGM 2020 – Report
The Old Bostonian Association Annual General Meeting for 2020 was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was held “virtually” on Wednesday 21 April 2021 using Zoom. These notes are not the official minutes of the meeting but represent some of the main points covered. The President, “Gus” Goor was unable to attend the meeting…
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26/03/2022 – OBA Annual Dinner 2022 (Provisional)
The annual dinner is expected to take place on Saturday 26 March at the Boston & County Club. The guest of honour will be announced in due course along with the menu and ticket prices.
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24/03/2022 – OBA Quiz Night 2022
The annual quiz night will take place on Thursday 24 March at the Boston & County Club. The quiz master will be former member of BGS staff and author of Quiz the World, Richard Anderson. Qualifying teams will be made up of current or former students or staff from Boston Grammar School or Boston High…
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CANCELLED – 16/10/2021 – OBA Annual Dinner 2021
The 2021 OBA Annual Dinner will not now take place. The annual dinner is expected to take place on Saturday 16 October at the Boston & County Club. The guest of honour will be announced in due course along with the menu and ticket prices.
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CANCELLED – 23/09/2021 – OBA Quiz Night 2021
The 2021 OBA Quiz Night will not now take place. The annual quiz night is expected to take place on Thursday 23 September at the Boston & County Club. The quiz master will be former member of BGS staff and author of Quiz the World, Richard Anderson. Qualifying teams will be made up of current…
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21/04/2021 – Old Bostonian Association AGM 2020
Delayed Annual General Meeting 2020 We give notice that The Annual General Meeting of The Old Bostonian Association, which was to be held in September 2020 but due to lock-down did not take place, will be held on ZOOM on Wednesday 21st April 2021 at 7.30pm. All Life Members and fully paid-up Members are invited…
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David Wright
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 fill until 1999. In fact he remained as organist at the Stump longer than that and was eventually appointed Organist Emeritus in 2007. Following his…
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Download The Old Bostonian magazine
If you want to download the current issue of The Old Bostonian or indeed any of the archived issues, please click the button below. It will take you to a page within the “Member’s” area of this website. The members’ area is for paid-up members of the Old Bostonian Association. You do not require an…
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Football
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 image on this post is of the Boston Grammar School 1st XI football team of 1938-39. Frank Ryan, the player who is holding the ball,…
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Panoramic school photographs
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 contingent including students and staff. More recently it has become possible to take such photographs with digital cameras and the vogue for this type of…
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