Old Woodbridgians Magazine.

The new 2009 OW Magazine has now been despatched and should have reached your doorstep - if not something is wrong and we need to know now.  Please use the contact us page and let either Mike Weaver or Ken Bailey know your current contact details and we will wing you another copy.

The Old Woodbridgians Magazine is one of the most important tasks we undertake in the year. There have been magazines for a number of years now but the present series commenced in 1995, edited by David Houchell. Registrar Michael Weaver took over the task in 1998.

We have a number of back numbers if you wish to make up a collection. Send £2.00 per Magazine to the Registrar at Woodbridge School. Add a few pence for postage if you will. You see, folks, there’s an awful lot in the OWs Magazine. Send me a tenner and I’ll wing you the lot - except 1998! That’s my final offer. You’ll then have a nearly complete collection of the modern colour Magazines.

Order yours now to avoid intense disappointment. Just send your name and address. Hey, you OWs unfortunate enough not to have married a fellow OW, have a look at your spouse’s or your partner’s former-pupil mag. The word ‘dry as dust’, which in fact is a phrase, springs to mind? We avoid dryness. Please do the same and order your Magazine(s) now. Here’s what you are missing or have missed.  If you have not received your copy we want to know so send me a message immediately.  Over 3,500 have gone out so where's yours?

The 2010 OW Magazine is back from the printers (pictured above) and once again is a triumph by our esteemed Registrar, Michael Weaver.  It is packed with news of OWs far and wide as well as information about this year's OW Reunion Dinner in September and a host of other articles to boot.

It has been decided that to save postage and ensure that OWs receive both publications together to mail it with The Bridge which will soon be printed and ready to go.  Please contain your excitement for a few weeks until this is arranged.

2009 Mummies and Daddies abound. James Harper's photo archive. Favourite teachers inveiled. Seckford Grammar School 1865 as never seen before - a new picture is discovered.  Loads of OW Memories and where are you now news.

2008 Goodbye to the Sixth Form Centre. Memories of the centre abound and of those who worked and learnt within it's walls.  Now is has gone to make way for a brand new building - more of that later.  The Seckford Reading Room is revived and now houses a wonderful archive. The CCF reaches 100 years of age. A review of 'that' Dinner in 2007 attended by over 300 OWs.  News and views from literally hundreds of OWs across the world.  Letters to the Editor and much more.

2007 The Collage Edition.  Retirements abound.  Michael Weaver, Mark Mitchels, Jill Lubbock and others.  Dinner News.  The Mark Mitchels Interview.  The Lubbocks - the Dynasty lives on! News of OWs worldwide.  The OW Website explained.  Letters to the Editor.  Reports on OW Events throughout the past year. CCF Memories still required.

2006 Lord Kitchener's Appeal.  Russell Ling remembers.  Stuart Gillings looks forward, in 1962!  The Age of Moore and Pluke - Drama revisited; Dinner news;  Ollie Hicks in the Falkland Island; Lou van Z in Guatamala; The Valley; Norman Stevens .... and much more. Ken Bailey, your President, writes and so does the Headmaster, Stephen Cole.  There's the big push for CCF information for our next great book.  Lord Kitchener has lent a hand here. There are letters from Peter Hogg, Graham Simmons, Raymond Langford-Jones, Richard Ward,  Max Pemberton, Robert Barron, Charlotte Ridout, Katie Wyke.   Richard Ambrose report on golf.  The photo of John Cummings scoring a spectacular try is remarkable..  Nice pics of Ken Charrot, Wayne Garvie and some dubious characters, President Bailey and Felicity Potter, John Carrington and many more. 

2005 The New Theatre Rises.  Tales of the London bike ride.  The Larken brothers.  The marvellous memories of Rob Taylor.  News and views of OWs worldwide. It’s bigger and better with more colour and no adverts.

2004 Tales of a Flying Man. Farewell to John Mileham. Dangerous times at School House. Dinners and diners.  Memories from Russell Ling.  Colour photos. 

2003 The Military Issue. Robert Sledmere receives the Sword of Honour; Opening of the Jeff Leslie Room; Do you Remember Homan? Harold Rosher in the RFC; Mary Liley reflects on her CCF days; the team of 1981 pictured; Niazi Fetto’s wedding; Ian and Eve Saunders; Quentin Cowdry’s poetic tribute to PR.

2002 The Year of Friends Reunited. FR examined; Keith Nicholls featured; Memories of the Twentieth Century reviewed; Adam Lubbock returns; The London Dinner of 1901; Obituaries of Paul Dumbrill and Ian Battye, former staff and OWs Andrew Skinner and Guy Bancroft-Wilson.

2001 The Abbey at Fifty. The Clarke sisters are cover girls. Report on the Abbey Dinner; memories of Tallents House; Messenger Monsey, the OW who swore and talked bawdy; the remarkable career of Donald Gibson; Emma Stevens in Korea; Adam Lubbock marries; Obituaries of OWs Simon Wigg and Raymond Binsted and, of course, of PR, Desmond Proctor-Robinson; pictures of School House.

2000 Fin de Siecle. The Abbey - fifty years on; Goodbye to all that, Rachel Forrester trawls through the archives; Mrs. Kamaryc remembers; Raymond Binsted on the dinner of 1952; Arnold Spencer-Smith with Shackleton; Peter Evans with the police; Nicholas Hughes interviewed. Obituaries - Jeff Leslie and Peter Gibson.

1999 The Wedding Special. Tom Dewar’s memories of war; JAL’s jottings; The Cambridge Crowd; George Smith remembers the late 1930s; Jamie and Sanchia get married; PR’s last visit to the School.

1998 Paul Muchal and Clare Laughlin on the cover. I’m not sure if the latter ever quite forgave me! As well as the usual articles - letters from the Headmaster; news of OWs etc., you can find - a feature on Woodbridge School Archives: Anthony Chamberlaine-Brothers remembers: Suzanne Parsons writes from Uganda: Obituaries ( a bad year ) for E.G.Johnson, Royce Salt, Chris Sturman, and OWs Geoffrey Dunn, Jonas Bruce and Hugh Bancroft-Wilson.  (No copies left of this rare piece of WS memorabilia, sadly.)

MR WEAVER'S GRAND SCHEME.

Yes, you read it here .  My final dream is to have all the Woodbridgian Magazines available on line.  1882 - 2006. And the OW Mags too. I need time and quite a lot of money, but what an archive eh? Maybe when I retire I can start.