Hoots from the Archive - Item from the Archive - A Christma… This is the last full week of the Michaelmas term, with the School breaking up next Tuesday, so we leave you with a recipe for Christmas pudding from the 1980 "MGS Recipe Book": The book was created… 0 2022 14/12/2023
Hoots from the Archive - Item from the Archive - The First … MGS breaks up for Christmas today, and enjoyed a Christmas dinner in the refectory last week. In December 1937, MGS had its very first Christmas Dinner in the refectory. The Manchester Guardian publi… 0 2022 14/12/2022
Hoots from the Archive - "Wartime Reminiscences of a Teenag… In 2012 we were given a bundle of papers for the archive by John Hewitt (OM 1939 - 47). Included was a typed document entitled "Wartime Reminiscences of a Teenager". They make for fascinating reading… 0 2022 20/10/2022
Hoots from the Archive – Annual Report of the Medical Offic… Manchester Grammar School has employed a School Doctor or Medical Officer since 1909. The first doctor to be appointed was Alfred Mumford. High Master J.L. Paton was keen to not just educate MGS boys… 0 2019 11/08/2019
Items from the Archive – Old Boys’ Dinner Menus The Old Boys’ Dinner has been in existence since 1781. We have a record book of the dinner which starts at the very first dinner and continues up until 1955. You can read more about that volume here:… 0 2019 21/04/2019
Hoots from the Archive – MGS and the Great War – An Event The School is currently planning an event to commemorate the Old Mancunians who gave their lives at the Somme and the Ypres Salient. St. George’s Memorial Church in Ypres is home to many memorial pl… 0 2018 11/12/2018
Hoots from the Archive – MGS Recipe Book There are many images of owls in the Archive – and rightly so, I hasten to add. I am fairly sure that there is only one image of an owl with a string of sausages hanging out of its mouth, however. … 0 2017 13/06/2017
Hoots from the Archive – "Cox’s" School Dinners This week’s item is a cartoon from a publication The Howl. The archive only holds two editions of this magazine, which was published in the 20s and 30s. The magazine was a fundraising effort, and inc… 0 2017 28/03/2017
Hoots from the Archive – Dinner Regulations School rules from bygone eras are always fascinating and give us a glimpse into the experience of the MGS boy of the past. These dinner regulations date from 1919, and we have provided a transcript b… 0 2017 06/01/2017
The History of MGS in 50 Objects – #19 The Butty Bar For many years through the 60s and 70s the ‘Butty Bar’, run by the School’s Catering Department, provided a basic but tasty menu of sandwich lunches for older pupils seeking an alternative to dinner … 0 2015 19/01/2015
