Stuff here that I couldn't think of any other place to put. If you've got any odds and ends laying around from schooldays, I would be very grateful if you could e-mail me a copy to include here. Doesn't really matter what it is, and it doesn't have to be particularly important, just something that makes others think "I remember that..."
 

The Churchill Prize was awarded to a hand picked group of elite students who excelled in their studies - that's what I told my Mother anyway. Personally I think it was more a case of a couple of teachers drawing names from a hat over a pint in the Alverbank at lunchtime. Anyway, I was given mine for services to the Computer Club. Which actually meant that I'd spent more time than anyone else playing the newly released space invaders game on the schools Commodore PET computer. The prize itself was a book token, which I found to my joy could also be used to buy records, so I blew mine on a 'Moody Blues' L.P. ...

A bit of trivia for the next pub quiz - Bay House is mentioned in Moonlight & Lovesongs, written by Lilian Harry and published by Orion Books. The book is set during the war around the Portsmouth and Gosport area. Reference is made to the Royal Engineers being quartered in Bay House. In fact Doris Banks (now Donna Baker) 'served time' at Bay House (as well as the other sites scattered around the town) from 1951 - 1955, the same year as Roy Harris whom she first met at Leesland School when they were both 5 years old. She has lived in Devon, Herefordshire, the Lake District and now back in Devon, and is still writing books, mostly under the name Lilian Harry, many of them set in and around Gosport and Portsmouth during World War 2.
 

If you are interested in the history of the Gosport County Grammar School, then I can highly recommend "The life and times of Gosport County Grammar School" by Lesley Burton, ISBN 0951467417. It costs just £6.50, and I recently bought a copy via W.H. Smith online, so it is still available

Fancy a flight over the school, but your personal jet still having its annual service? Haven't we all been in that situation! Try using Google Earth instead. Download Google Earth from http://earth.google.com/ and type in the postcode of the school which is PO12 2QP . Many thanks to Alain Plockyn for the idea.