In 2019, the school was presented with former headteacher Gill Llewellyn’s collection of newspaper articles from her time at the school. This was the start of my journey of discovering the school’s fascinating past via the log books and the assortment of photographs and other mementos boxed up over the years. It then expanded to newspaper articles from The British Newspaper Archive and various other sources for earlier information.

The log books were very revealing. To begin with, they provided a formal and quite mundane record, with a gradual move to a more interesting school-life after the Second World War. An informality in the style of recording became more pronounced from the 1970s. They were dutifully kept by successive headteachers until 2012 and a summary may be found below.

You may also be interested in some additional information published on the School website at https://smcea.org.uk/about-us/school-archive.

I retired as senior administrator at the school in 2022 but if you have any photographs or documents you think may be of interest, do please get in touch with the school at admin@southmarston.bluekitetrust.org or myself at wttmh1@gmail.com.

Hilary Brooks
Archivist