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    Our Old Mancunian Alumni Awards honour the exceptional achievements of our alumni, from those who are established in their careers to those who are just getting started. Recipients embody the spi…

  Our Old Mancunian Alumni Awards honour the exceptional achievements of our alumni, from those who are established in their careers to those who are just getting started. Recipients embody the spiri…

Our Old Mancunian Alumni Awards honour the exceptional achievements of our alumni, from those who are established in their careers to those who are just getting started. Recipients embody the spirit …

Our Old Mancunian Alumni Awards honour the exceptional achievements of our alumni, from those who are established in their careers to those who are just getting started. Recipients, such as the ones …

Each year we recognise and celebrate the exceptional achievements of Old Mancunians around the world. Congratulations to the alumni who have been nominated for an alumni award in 2024 by The Old Manc…

Our Old Mancunian Alumni Awards honour the exceptional achievements of our alumni, from those who are established in their careers to those who are just getting started. Recipients embody the spirit …

This blogpost is a follow-up to a post originally sent out on November 25th 2021, which presented an overview of the school archive's collection of items relating to the late, acclaimed OM, televisio…

When MGS was first founded in the early sixteenth century, it was the only school of its kind in the area. The nearest "rival" would have been Stockport Grammar School (founded 1487), although in a t…

The story of Ian Bailey’s night guarding Deputy Nazi Fuhrer Rudolf Hess in a cell at Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow is well known. Hess was probably certifiably insane and was no loss to the Nazi cause. …

Guest post by Jeremy Ward (History 1974 - 1997) One of the more bizarre incidents of the Second World War involved OM and former teaching staff member Ian Bailey (1913- 2007). The Nazi Deputy Fuhrer …

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There have been forty-three High Masters during the Manchester Grammar School's five hundred year history, but by far the longest serving is Charles Lawson. He held the role from 1764 until 1807, an …

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Alumni from The Manchester Grammar School spanning every decade since the 1950s gathered for a memorable drinks reception with the High Master, Dr Boulton, in Piccadilly, London. For the first time i…

John Beavan, later to be known as Baron Ardwick of Barnes, attended MGS between 1924 and 1927. He had a successful career in journalism, serving as editor of the Manchester Evening News, London edito…

Above the front door of the diminutive Seventh Day Adventist church in Blackpool hangs a modest plaque (pictured above) which memorialises the tragically short lives of three young brothers, all of …

The office of School Captain at MGS is at least 180 years old. The captains' board that hangs in reception only begins in 1897 and lists R. Wedd as the office holder for that year. However, our first…

The Old Boys' Dinner has a long history dating back to 1781. We still have the first record book which gives a list of attendees and toasts from 1781 onwards.  Also associated with the dinner are the…

“Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.” (Friedrich Steinbrecher) The Somme, one the bloodiest battles of the Great War, marked its centenary in 2016. But what of M…

This interesting retrospective by an anonymous Old Mancunian was published in Ulula in March 1904: "Within the last half century Manchester, in common with all our large commercial towns, has undergo…

The Old Mancunian edition 61.pdf Issue 61 of The Old Mancunian

The Old Mancunian edition 62.pdf Issue 62 of The Old Mancunian