Tudor Grange Grammar School

Thank You
....to Holly Dennis for arranging Tudor Grange School 50th Anniversary celebrations on Saturday 8th July 2006. A great time was had by all.

The Photograph
These web pages are dedicated to the school photograph taken in April 1967 where all 662 pupils and staff were arranged in the playground in a large semicircle and photographed with a camera that rotated on its tripod. If you were there then you are bound to remember! The printed photograph measures 44" by 7" while the scanned version is 8780 by 1007 pixels. This is large (an understatement) but ensures that faces are in enough detail to recognise people. Note that I covered my copy in sticky-backed plastic years ago and imperfections from this can be seen in the scanned image.

Who's Who?
That's where I hope that you can help! The web pages are constructed such that when you place your mouse cursor over a face then the name should pop up. This works in Internet Explorer version 5.5, at least (Stop Press - I have since discovered that IE5 under NT doesn't work reliably - sorry if your configuration fails too).

However, even 35 years ago I didn't know everyone in the school - add (or subtract) the failings of a memory that is several years past its sell-by date, and the result is some huge gaps! Please email me with names of fellow pupils and masters - you will find that everyone is given a reference to help this. Rows are labelled A through H (starting at the top) and people then numbered left to right. Hence I am now known as D036.

Though we have completed the initial task of giving everyone at least an approximate name, if you can confirm or correct the information shown then please email me at dave@tggs1967.free-online.co.uk quoting the reference number (please use the complete number - eg D036 - in that format, not D36, D 36, or any other variant, as I use this when searching across emails to research conflicting names). Similarly tell me if you can provide forenames rather than those shown with just initials (largely found from The Chronicle of 1967). Just to manage expectations, as the names have become more complete, and corrections become proportionally minor, so I have slowed my rate of update. Never fear, I will respond to you - eventually!

Stop Press - unfortunately I am receiving contradictory names for some people. If you spot an instance where two names are shown, and can vouch with confidence for one of them, then please let me know!

Inter-House Competition
In keeping with best Tudor Grange traditions, I am running a competition to see how much help is provided by each House. So, when you send me your nominations / confirmations (even if it is only for yourself) then please tell me the House to which you used to belong.

The current position is as follows. It should be noted that those who have not remembered or not notified their House hold a critical balance of points! Hopefully the following reflects the various House colours - please inform me if you disagree.

Progress

Avoiding Repeated Downloads of Photograph
Here is the theory:

You should first view the photograph at whatever resolution you wish. The highest quality will look best, while the medium quality is intended to allow you to fit everything onto a 1.44Mb diskette.

When the photograph is downloaded and completely visible in your browser, right-click on it and choose option "Save Picture As..." (that's what it is shown as within Internet Explorer). Save it with the name shown (tggs1967.jpg) within directory / folder C:\My Documents

Do keep the name and location exactly as stated above.

In the future, return to this page and select option "Photo Already Downloaded". This will retrieve the latest text for the page from the WWW server, but this version will load the photograph from your hard drive.

If you wish you can even configure Internet Explorer to make this page available offline, and to refresh the copy at whatever frequency you like. For example, you could request that it is refreshed every week - Internet Explorer would then retrieve the page automatically every week (assuming that you have been online), and you could then look at the photo and the updated names at you leisure offline. To do this, select option "Photo Already Downloaded" then select from the Internet Explorer menu "Favourites - Add to Favourites", check "Make available offline", then select Customize and define your requirements on the Schedule tab.

If All Else Fails

If the options to display the name when the mouse pointer is over someone's face doesn't work for you, or works only when you are online, then use the Numeric options. That is, view the Numbered Photo, and save this on your hard drive. This version of the photo has visible numbers every 10th person along each row. The intention was to place the number on the person's chest, but this sometimes has to be to one side when obstructed by the person in front. Then select the "Numeric List" option, which shows the identified people from left to right, along each row. You should be able to start two instances of your browser and view the numbered photo and the numeric list side by side. Not as elegant as the approach using the mouse, but better than nothing! You can return and retrieve the latest version of the Numeric List periodically, and either save it or print it as desired.

Bonus Photographs
To complete the collection of 1967 photographs I have added the various sport teams as included in The Chronicle for 1967. Unfortunately the scanner has picked up strange stripes from the magazine, but I hope you can make people out! These are easy because everyone is identified in The Chronicle. However, I have also included a staff photo from The Chronicle of 1964 - and this has no names! So - same process as above - please email me if you can identify any gaps or make corrections.

I have also added some photographs scanned from previous Chronicles. I had originally intended to post these on Friends Reunited, but its treatment of photographs is so bizarre that I will include them here so that I can control their appearance!

Related Web Site
There is a companion of the similar site created for the July 1960 version of the school photograph. This can be found at: http://www.tggs1960.free-online.co.uk/

Thanks - Dave Mellor - TGGS 1960-1967 - Beaufort / Achaeans
dave@tggs1967.free-online.co.uk