The Old Almondburians' Society

AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF KING JAMES'S SCHOOL IN ALMONDBURY (Ref. OAS 1)

112pp, full colour, hardback

£10.00 (packing and postage within UK: £2.50)

This limited-edition colour publication was published on 1st December 2007. It tells the story in words and pictures of King James's School from 1608 right up to the present day. Contents include:

● A revised and updated account of the development of the School from 1608 to the present day

● The national events and ideas that have influenced these changes over the years

● ‘They made their mark’: eminent Old Almondburians who have made major contributions to public life

● The endowments - and how they led to the new King James’s School Foundation

● The buildings: a photographic tour of the School today, to spot how much - or how little - the School has changed over four centuries

● ‘The Harry Taylor Years’: a personal account of a greatly respected headmaster of recent years

● The School today: its achievements, and its plans and objectives for the future.

Contributors include Gerald Hinchliffe, Edward Royle, Richard Taylor, Andrew Taylor, David Bush, Graham Cliffe, Robert Lamb, John Hargreaves and Roger Dowling.

The book is available NOW from stock - so order without delay before we run out of copies!!

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A HISTORY OF KING JAMES'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN ALMONDBURY (Ref. OAS 2)

Gerald Hinchliffe

The Advertiser Press Limited

384pp, hardback

£10.00 (packing and postage within UK: £2.50)

We still have a few copies of Gerald Hinchliffe's detailed formal History of King James's Grammar School - a 'must' for any Old Almondburian's library.

It tells the story of the School from its earliest days as a chantry school in the sixteenth century right through to the 1960s. Appendices list all the Headmasters, 'Assistant Masters' and Governors during this 400-year period, together with Dartmouth Medallists and Jessop Prizemen.

MORNING ASSEMBLY (Ref. OAS 3)

Andrew Taylor; Roger Dowling (Editor)

The Old Almondburians’ Society

104pp, hardback

£10.00 (packing and postage within UK: £1.30)

All who remember Harry Taylor will enjoy this new book about the School’s respected Headmaster from 1951 to 1973.

A well-known Almondbury figure, he was also a regular reader at All Hallows’ Church, the transcriber of the local parish registers, and one of the authors of a respected history of Almondbury. He played cricket for Almondbury Casuals, and earned a reputation throughout Huddersfield as a witty and entertaining after dinner speaker.

Morning Assembly gives a fascinating and often humorous account of Harry Taylor’s life and includes, in facsimile form, 100 prayers – ancient and modern – which he assembled over the years for use in School assemblies.

NO BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH

(Ref. OAS 4)

Dave Bush; Roger Dowling (Editor)

The Old Almondburians’ Society

248pp, hardback

£15.00 (packing and postage within UK: £3.00)

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As part of our centenary celebrations, the Old Almondburians’ Society is proud to publish the final-year diary of Dave Bush, who taught at King James’s from 1961 to 1996.

Dave Bush became a legendary figure who had spent his entire career at King James’s. He joined the School, then a grammar school, in 1961 as a junior Latin, French and English teacher. In due course he became the dedicated House Master of Jessop and, as his career developed, he became Deputy Headmaster and for a period Acting Headmaster.

The diary, with jacket design by Emmy award-winning artist and former pupil Charlie Starkey (1968-75), paints a fascinating picture, warts and all, of the gossip and intrigue of life at the School a quarter of a century ago. We think you’ll be surprised and amused in equal measure.