WOLVERHAMPTON MUNICIPAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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June 2019 - I received an email this weekend from Rosemarie Hewitt (Nee Hawkes). Some of our more senior members may remember the Hawkes Brothers who seem to have been involved in the sports teams at the school. The email is summarised below.
Hi, 3 of my 5 brothers went to this school! Don, Geoff & Les. Don would have been 87 this June, Geoff who won a few cups for running is 82 & Les who was in the rugby team is now 77. Leslie asked me to look something up for him. While looking I came across a few photos he is in, also in the sports teams section I saw someone I vaguely recognise as his friend Pete Miller. I'm almost 100% sure that it is Pete Miller in the cricket photo but I will try to get Les ( who lives in Heidelberg & no internet!) to confirm it somehow. The photo is: 'Cricket team-1958. Pete, I think, is on back row, 5th from Left (dark hair). My brother Les was in the Rugby team then but I haven't come across a photo of him yet except the whole school photos from 56 &59.
Regards, Rosemarie Hewitt (Nee Hawkes)
Hi, 3 of my 5 brothers went to this school! Don, Geoff & Les. Don would have been 87 this June, Geoff who won a few cups for running is 82 & Les who was in the rugby team is now 77. Leslie asked me to look something up for him. While looking I came across a few photos he is in, also in the sports teams section I saw someone I vaguely recognise as his friend Pete Miller. I'm almost 100% sure that it is Pete Miller in the cricket photo but I will try to get Les ( who lives in Heidelberg & no internet!) to confirm it somehow. The photo is: 'Cricket team-1958. Pete, I think, is on back row, 5th from Left (dark hair). My brother Les was in the Rugby team then but I haven't come across a photo of him yet except the whole school photos from 56 &59.
Regards, Rosemarie Hewitt (Nee Hawkes)
May 2019 - I was on a bowls tour this week and we were playing at Swanage, Dorset on May 23rd. I spoke to a spectator at the side of the green and noted his midlands accent so I questioned where he was from. He was on holiday from Coventry but further questioning led him to tell me he once lived in Newhampton Road East and he was a pupil at WMGS from 1951 to 1953, but left when his parents moved to Coventry that year. His name was Robert Bannister. (not to be confused with a four minute miler called Roger Bannister). They always say it is a small world.
Although we are a South Devon Club there were six people from Wolverhampton in our team, including myself (Bob Tame) and the tour was organised by a seventh Wulfrunian who sadly died a month before the tour.
January 6th 2018.
Today I received the email below from Pittsburg USA. Can anyone help find Ann Holder (Patricia Anne Holder born in 1932, I think) or any of her descendants. I have replied, thanking the sender and have said I would see if I could help.
Update: October 15th 2018 - Unfortunately I have had no luck trying to trace Anne Holder or a descendant. She would have been at School c 1943-1950, She may have gone on to Leeds University to do French and English until 1954 when she may have returned to Wolverhampton and got married to someone named 'Probert', or 'Hall', or 'Forrestor'.
Today I received the email below from Pittsburg USA. Can anyone help find Ann Holder (Patricia Anne Holder born in 1932, I think) or any of her descendants. I have replied, thanking the sender and have said I would see if I could help.
Update: October 15th 2018 - Unfortunately I have had no luck trying to trace Anne Holder or a descendant. She would have been at School c 1943-1950, She may have gone on to Leeds University to do French and English until 1954 when she may have returned to Wolverhampton and got married to someone named 'Probert', or 'Hall', or 'Forrestor'.
Dear Mr Tame,
Yesterday I bought a book from a local bookstore here in Pittsburgh. I was intrigued by the sticker on the first page (image attached). Awarded to Anne Holder and signed by Headmaster R.R. Stephens. I googled the name of the school and it led me to your website.
It would be wonderful if you could help me locate Ms Anne Holder! I would love to know how the book landed here in the United States, and if possible would love to gift it to Anne or her descendants. I'm sure they would treasure it.
Thanks!
Tejas Gokhale
Update: The name of the book is "English Social History" by G.M. Trevelyan.