Downer Crest

Greetings

Welcome to this collection of pupil-submitted memorabilia from Downer Grammar School, Edgware, UK.

For past pupils, this site is intended to offer a nostalgic refuge from the relentless tribulations confronting us in our dotage.

Long Photos - Names Amendments

Christine Reyland and Patricia née Lynch (1967-73) have suggested some corrections to the ’69 'names' diagram and offered a raft of new names.  Thank you, ladies.

Site Statistics

This site's hosting service (Fast2host) reports (August 2025) that about 700 pages (not incl. 'pdf's or image files) are accessed from it each month.  This page and the ‘Photos’ page get about 2 hits/day and the ‘Staff’ page gets about 1.5.  (If a visitor views any particular page several times within any rolling, 72-hour period, it's only logged once.)

The Blackwell School site attracts a similar amount of traffic.  (Chandos has about half the number of visits.)

Summer traffic is about ¾ of that in winter.

Activities during 1965

Anne Taylor (entered DGS in ’61) shares recollections from her school trip to Scheveningen and also to Italy ’65 (and her photographs).  They have spurred Diane Head, née Walker (Anne’s classmate), to share some of her photos from 1965 too, and additionally, to draft a summary of her life before, during and after DGS.

Privacy

This site is not password-protected - so, if your name appears anywhere, it may be possible for anyone to find it by a web-search.  If you regard this as a damnable outrage, please ‘Contact me’ ('cos I can ask search engines to ignore certain pages).