Index of Speech Day Programmes

From the archive of the late Mr. K.B. Gibson.
Contributed by Mrs. F.J.W. Gibson and Ms. Ruth Gibson

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Really Old Speech Days

NOTES

1. At some point before my time at FGS the school's population, plus parents and other guests, outgrew the available accommodation. Consequently the annual prize distribution had to be staged in two instalments: one in the afternoon for the 'Lower School' and one in the evening for the 'Upper School' (there's posh for you...) with a different guest of honour at each. This arrangement continued until 1959, when the proceedings were transferred to a suitably larger venue, namely the Victoria Hall, Bolton, thus enabling Speech Day to become a single event once more. For most of the years affected, Mr. Gibson's archive contains a copy of both programmes. However, since they differ only in the name of the guest of honour, I have decided to let one programme represent both events.
     
2. 1946 seems to have been something of an oddity in that it had four Speech Days: two in March and two in November. Despite having been at FGS until the July of that year, I have no recollection of this and no idea how it came about. Three of the four programmes are represented in this archive (although the lists of prizewinners are missing from both of the March programmes). The fourth 1946 programme is available elsewhere on the Wrinklies' website, together with the 1936, 1937, and 1938 programmes.