Glenn Chandler who created Taggart was an RHS pupil in the 60’s. When at school in 1966 he organised a review along the lines of ‘That was the Week It was’ and we made a film which was shown at the review. It was called ‘Art de Nigel’ and was a spoof on the awful […]
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Bruce tells it like it was
We have now published Bruce Skivington’s upbeat account of life at the RHS in the late 50’s through to the mid sixties. He covers the ATC, Gillespies Girls, the usual suspect – Fifi, Bowie and Somerville to name but a few.There will also be some fuzzy films made at the time available for download shortly.The […]
Our Site Gets 200 Visits in a Day
In January our site broke all previous records, peaking at 200 visits a day. Total visits leapt from 2908 in December to 4169 in January.Our friends, the Scots in London proved to be the biggest draw, with their Burns Night tickets selling out within 4 days of going on sale. Photos from the event are […]
Coming Soon
We will be publishing Bruce Skivington’s recollections of life at the school from 1954 to 1967.Here is a taster (first published in our Guest Book)What a wonderful time. Now most of the staff would be arrested if they carried on like the mob of the 50s and 60s.The wonderful things – James Gillespies girls school, […]
New on the Site in January 2006
Most noticable, we hope, the site has been given a makeover, with nice new banners at the top of the main pages.Club President Simon Card OBE stood in the school’s mock election sometime in the 1960’s. A contemporary account of the event can be found at http://www.royalhigh.org.uk/mockel67.htm .Final details of our forthcoming Annual Dinner appear […]
Doctor John
Dr John Murray has agreed to give a short speech at the RHS Club in London Annual Dinner on 17.03.06. As most of you know John is a retired, and much respected, Deputy-Rector of the school who now lives with his wife Joan in the South of France. John is currently undertaking some research into […]
New on the Site
Our top ten pages http://www.royalhigh.org.uk/rhstopten.htm has been updated to show the November figures.The Scots in London http://www.royalhigh.org.uk/silevents.htm pages have been revamped and are getting many visitors.Don’t forget to take a look at our ‘Where are they now’ http://www.royalhigh.org.uk/rhswhere.htm pages, the Birthday party from 1951 ish has had a couple of replies.Our links pages are also […]
Annual Dinner 2006
The Royal High School Club in London’s Annual Dinner will be held Friday 17th March 2006 at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn Street.Last year’s event was regarded as very successful, and we are hoping to improve it further this time.Some members stayed overnight at the Cavendish last year, and the feedback from them was very good.