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1927 to 2027

A hundred years of a school founded to give girls in Salisbury an education they were not otherwise going to get.


Four dates to put in the diary

Everything else hangs off these. All four are open to alumni, parents, staff and friends of the school.

22 January 2027

The centenary year opens in the Main Hall. The Head sets out the programme, the appeal is launched and the first archive display goes up.

20 March 2027

Class of 1977, fifty years on: lunch in the dining hall, a tour for anyone who wants one, and the 1977 photographs out on the tables.

3 July 2027

The Centenary Festival. The whole site, eleven in the morning until ten at night, and the one to travel for.

25 September 2027

The Service of Thanksgiving in Salisbury Cathedral, where the school's big occasions have been marked since 1952.

Centenary news

South Wilts Grammar School

The programme runs from January to September 2027, and every part of it is open to alumni, parents, staff and friends. More...

South Wilts Grammar School

The archive is strong on the 1930s and thin on everything since. We would like to fix that before July. More...

South Wilts Grammar School

The old tennis court becomes a garden, to a design drawn by an alumna who left in 2010. More...

The archive is missing the best part: you

We have a century of minutes and almost no photographs. Anything you have, we will copy and hand straight back. Everything below is something we are actively looking for. If you have any of it, we will copy it and give the original straight back - or you can simply write down what you remember, which is worth more than people think.

Photographs

Form and year photographs, teams, productions, trips, and anything taken on the field. The years before 1980 are the thinnest.

Programmes and reports

Speech Day programmes, play and concert programmes, magazines, and school reports you are willing to be seen with.

Uniform and kit

Blazers, badges, hat bands, hockey and netball kit. We would like to photograph them, not keep them.

Written memories

A paragraph about a teacher, a lesson, a walk to school or what the place felt like. This is the part no archive can replace.

Centenary Event Calendar

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