Thanks very much to Brian for the details of the Council Secondary School (Boys) which with the headmaster's name confirms it to have been the right school. Also for the information about the Municipal College, and its chemistry teacher. Thanks also to Ken for the details of the history of these schools, from which I would guess that if any records survive from the early 1900's they would likely be in the present day U of P archive and whatever the Portsmouth Secondary School became after its upping to a grammar school. Does anyone know where these places can be contacted or if they are on the Web like PGS? Regards Martin Willcocks Taylorsville, UT, USA. Brian wrote: >From Kellys 1911 - Council Secondary School (Boys), Victoria Rd North. built 1892 and enlarged 1911, and is under the control of the Higher Education Committee. The buildings include well equipped laboratories for practical chemistry & physics, workshops for for wood & metalwork, & lecture rooms; preparation is given for preceptors' , dockyard apprentices' & Civil Service examinations & public examinations generally: the school is available for 440 boys: George John Parks D.Sc. Univ. of London, head master. The Borough of Portsmouth Municipal College was in Park Rd, Landport. Fred Beddow D.Sc, Ph.D. was Instructor of chemistry. Ken wrote: b) I believe it was the 1906 Education Act that set up secondary education and from which we get the Portsmouth Northern Secondary School and the Portsmouth Southern Secondary School. The latter came first and was located in Victoria Road South as someone has said. To the best of my knowledge the boys were eventually in Albert Road and the girls just near Fratton Bridge. The Northern started off in the St. Mary's Institute and then moved to a purpose built school in Mayfield Road, North End. It is now a comprehensive. I went there in 1941 but the school had been evacuated to Winchester. In 1944 a further education act promoted the 2 secondary schools to grammar schools so there were, at one time, three in Portsmouth. -- (What is it now?) c) Portsmouth Municipal College was set up late in the 19thC, I believe, to provide tertiary education. I believe it then became a College of Technology and then a Polytechnic and eventually formed the basis for the University of Portsmouth, in combination with the teacher's training college at Milton.