The Maltonian Web

Progress log 2019

• 23 December 2019 The second Nainotlam, from January 1967, is now scanned. The typing is a little faint in parts, but I think it is readable.
• 21 December 2019 I have started to scan issues of Nainotlam. The first Nainotlam, from December 1966, is now available. For those unaware of this literary masterpiece, it was the student version of the school magazine produced between 1966 and 1968, on typed foolscap duplicator paper. Eddie Lucas donated his bound copies to the school a couple of years ago.
• 1 December 2019 I have added 45 photos from Children in Need 2007, mainly sixth formers.
• 12 November 2019 The last of the photos from the Malton Grammar School Dramatic Society album are now on the site. The last play to feature is Our Town (Thornton Wilder), performed in December 1963. There were other plays between 1960 and 1963, but for some reason there are no photos in the album.
• 10 November 2019 More Dramatic Society photos added: 1959 As You Like It - a pastoral production (outside stage); 1959 The Countess Cathleen and The Fish - on the large stage in the new extension; 1960 Murder in the Cathedral - with a mix of staff and students in the cast. There was a production of The Little Man by John Galsworthy performed in January 1959, for which the cast appears in The Maltonian No. 114, but sadly I have no photographs. Are there any out there? This was probably the last production on the small stage in the old hall.
• 29 October 2019 Continuing working my way throught the GS Dramatic Society Album, I have now added photos and a programme (including the cast list) from The Admirable Crichton, performed in December 1956.
• 20 October 2019 With this year's Celebration evening approaching I have added the previous two year's Celebration programmes and Powerpoint Slides.
• 19 October 2019 I found a dozen photos of a Year 8 visit to the Yorkshire Arboretum one spring morning in 2008.
• 16 October 2019 I realised that I had not updated the Sports Day Records this year. With 84 events taking place, there were 7 records broken, including Richard Lawes' 1500m record, which has stood for 25 years since 1994. The Sports Day Records and results are now available. Also updated are the general information sheet about Sports days over the years, and the individual winners (Victor and Victrix ludorem)
• 25 September 2019 Photos and cast lists from Twelfth Night (1954), Thread o' Scarlet, Eldorado and The Rehearsal (all 1955), and The Critic (1956) are all now on the site.
• 22 September 2019 Photos and a cast list from the December 1951 production of St Joan have been added to the site. Also the 1953 production of The Rivals.
• 21 September 2019 Photos and a cast list from the 1951 production of The Tempest have been added to the site.
• 20 September 2019 Photos and a cast list from the February 1951 production of Arms and the Man have been added to the site.
• 15 September 2019 Photos and a cast list from Midsummer Night's Dream 1950 have been added to the site.
• 14 September 2019 I have been working on scanning a large number of photos from an album labelled M. G. S. Dramatic Society. It has good quality 5 x 3 black and white photos of scenes and casts from the 1940s and 1950s. Many of them have not appeared on the website before, nor in the History of Malton School book. To make a start, I have added the 1949 production of As You Like It , performed on the outside stage, to the website. More will follow in the next few days.
• 28 July 2019 I have transcribed The Maltonian No 126 - July 1971. This is the final magazine, published just before the merger of Malton Grammar School and Malton County Modern School. I hav also scanned the numerous advertisements for local Malton traders which appear in the magazine - saved as a separate document. The magazine includes updates on the staff - departures and arrivals - and an extensive round up of Old Maltonians, their lives and their whereabouts.
• 6 July 2019 With sports day round about now in the school calendar, I thought I would look back 13 years to 2006. The 2006 Sports Day appears to have been a lovely sunny day, with over a hundred photos available.
• 16 June 2019 I also found some photos from 15 years ago, the Year 11 2004 Prom. Nearly 50 of them!
• 12 June 2019 With Year 11 approaching their final days at school, I thought I would look back 12 years to the final day for Year 11 in 2007. In those days it was before half term - now I believe lessons continue for longer.
• 20 May 2019 More pictures from the visit. This group of 13 pictures are from the 2004 Celebration evening - presenters, performers and two guests.
• 19 May 2019 A visit to school last week resulted in a hoard of previously unseen photos and documents to scan. These will be appearing in the coming weeks. To start with, a handful of photos of sports day and sports teams from 2000. The photos are a little small and not of great quality. Perhaps I will come across the originals and be able to improve on this.
  As a result of finding these, I have started a Sports index page, which will eventually provide a link to all the sports photos we have from across the years.
• 12 May 2019 Some tidying up and a few additions to the photos taken around Malton - 1962 Middlecave Road, 1979 the A64 roundabout, 2004 Sylvan homes on Middlecave Road.
• 10 May 2019 It is always a surprise, and a delight, to find old photos from school days which are not in the archive and which I have never seen before. Joan Schofield provided four such treats, via Howard Campion, this week. A 1920 picture of Ida Bielby, Joan's mother, with fellow tennis playing students. A 1950s picture of Joan Schofield and friends on a farm (I think). A news clipping of the 1953 Speech Day. And the front cover of The Maltonian February 1955, with signatures of staff and students.
• 8 May 2019 Four trophies first presented in December 2018 have been added to the Trophies Gallery - Endeavour, Business Studies, Computer Studies, and Drama and Performance.
• 24 March 2019 Looking at the Events index prompted some tidying up of links and pictures on the War Memorial pages.
• 23 March 2019 A tidy up of the Drama and Productions links, especially the Easter Shows from 2003-2006. 45 pictures from 2006 have been added, as well as a programme for the night, when we had a 90s Night Show.
• 24 February 2019 I have been tidying up the documents index, and adding a few odds and ends - the school hymn, a 1941 bill for tuiton fees, a Latin primer, a psalter, some old exams, some 1950s dance steps - and more.
• 27 January 2019 At last I have transcribed the July 1950 Maltonian magazine, donated by Pat Lund last year. The usual mix of reports on school life, scouts and guides, sport, drama, and of course letters from Old Maltonians.
• 25 January 2019 Further updating, one thing linking with another from Howard Campion's email. I have improved the links and structure for the 1930s and 1950s pages, and added 8 1930s photos from Joyce Jackson (nee Horsley), plus 1940s photos from Ray Metcalfe and Kitty Thackray. I have added two Maltonian magazine reports on the school trips to Hull (1933) and Liverpool (1934) which fature in Joyce Jackson's photos. I have added photos and a tribute to Wilf Wise, who was an MGS pupil in the 1930s, then became a flight officer, and ended as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 3, made famous by the Great Escape film.
• 24 January 2019 Howard Campion sending me a 1940s picture has prompted me to improve the structure of the 1940s pages, and add 11 photos that Shirley Wheatley sent in 2002, from her time at Malton Grammar School 1949 - 1954. There are more 1940s photos I have found - coming soon.
• 20 January 2019 I have updated the current staff list and the staff leavers list to reflect changes over the last year. Looking at the 1971 staff list, when Malton School opened as a comprehensive, there were 42 teachers and 5 support staff - 2 secretaries, 1 science technician, 1 caretaker, and 2 cook supervisors. Today there are 61 staff who are "classroom based" (teachers, learning supervisors, special needs support) and 39 "support staff" (administration, pastoral, technicians, site maintenance). Of course many of these roles overlap between classroom and support, and these numbers are people in post, not full time equivalents. The major change today is that teachers by and large are concerned with teaching. Only a few years ago many teachers were doing pastoral and administrative jobs on top of or alongside their teaching roles.