This month, former pupil Johnny Melville, actor, director, screenplay writer, clown, blogger, comedian and healer, has contributed a series of photographs to our “Where are they Now” galleries, from the 1960 Junior first XI cricket team to the 1964 – 1965 1st XV Rugby Team. If you were in any of the teams or just […]
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Winning Poem
Our club awards an annual prize for an English poem. This year’s winner is Paulina Bysiak with her poem Coldness. Read her poem here
Two RHS former pupils honoured
Anne Richards becomes a Dame, and John Kay is Knighted in the 2021 Queens Birthday Honours List. Professor John Kay was Guest Speaker at one of our Annual Dinners and has attended a few other RHS Club in London events. Anne Richards was a guest at the 2018 Barnton 50th Anniversary Dinner at Dynamic Earth […]
Challenging Plays in the 60s
The RHS Dramatic Society in the 1960s didn’t shy away from mounting challenging productions. From Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” in 1963, Othello in 1964, Anouilh’s Becket in 1966, “The Physicists” by Friedrich Durrenmatt to a production of the considerably racy “One More River” by Beverly Cross around 1969. The RHS Dramatic Society had no […]
Bidding War over Old RHS Building
The old Royal High School building in Regent Road is now recognised as the very best Greek revival building in the world. Although recent stories have suggested that the plan for St Mary’s music school was likely to succeed, this update in today’s Observer newspaper shows it is far from certain – Bidding war opens […]
Portuguese Revolution Connection
Joao Da Ponte who was in my year has apparently passed away. I have only just discovered how important a figure his father Bruno was, this obit is where I learned that Joao had died – https://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/20064-obituary-bruno-da-ponte-1932-2018 Joao and I went to see Status Quo in about 1972 at the Empire theatre, walked home to […]
Tribute to John Cruikshank VC
John Cruikshank was born on May 20th 1920, and attended the Royal High School in 1930 for 2 or 3 years. He moved to Daniel Stewart’s College from the Royal High, and completed his school education there. He tends to be ‘claimed’ by Daniel Stewart’s as their pupil, and indeed there is a […]
Prize Winning Poem
As you may have seen in the You Tube video of the school’s virtual prize-giving the winner of the RHS London Club prize for an English poem for 2020 was Euan Coull with his poem The hesitant silence before ”I love you too”. Euan takes us into a world of coffee bars, late night phone […]