Hello Gordon, You could try researching the staff at the King Edward VI Grammar Schools at that time. Theschools still exist, so may well have archives. The boys' schools are K. E. Five Ways, K.E. Camp Hill and K.E. Aston. (If you google them you can get full details.) It's possible that the now independent King Edward's School was also a grammar school then. Of course, there would have been other grammar schools in the area at that time, I would imagine, however, they will be harder to research given that they no longer exist. I'd start with the King Edward's Foundation schools and only try to move on if they don't prove fruitful. Regards, Sian

Dear Sian, Thank you very much for your comments. The truth is that I attended Moseley Secondary School between 1931 and 1935. After I left, it became a Grammar School and now it is a Language College. About nine months ago, I contacted the school's archivist and asked what he knew. He made available to me almost all of the terminal school magazines, (three per year) which recorded all the comings and goings of pupils and staff. It was that information which started me to enquire about staff members who had impressed me as a 11-16 year-old. So I photographed every page of all of them. They occupy 2.17 gigabytes on my laptop The staff always wore their gowns to teach, and when they left, a very brief personal history was sometimes included giving the university which they had attended. So then I wrote to the archivists of the various establishments, and they have been very helpful. I do already have quite a wealth of information, but I thought it would be good to make contact with any descendants there might be to ask what they remembered of their ancestor.The West Monmouth School even sent me a History of the School which included a reference to David Hughes as a French master from 1921-1923, when he became deputy head at Moseley. I was good at French and I found him very kind and helpful. I am very nearly an ancestor myself. If I survive another month, I shall be 93, My two children have retired, my five grandchildren are mainly in their prime and I have seven gt.grandchildren, aged between seven and 0.3. So, thank you very much indeed for your help, I hope I haven't bored you. Yours very gratefully, Gordon Reed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sian Mackey" <sian@swallowtail.org> To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [MON] D. Hughes > Hello Gordon, > > You could try researching the staff at the King Edward VI Grammar > Schools at that time. Theschools still exist, so may well have archives. > The boys' schools are K. E. Five Ways, K.E. Camp Hill and K.E. Aston. > (If you google them you can get full details.) It's possible that the > now independent King Edward's School was also a grammar school then. Of > course, there would have been other grammar schools in the area at that > time, I would imagine, however, they will be harder to research given > that they no longer exist. I'd start with the King Edward's Foundation > schools and only try to move on if they don't prove fruitful. > > Regards, > > Sian > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >