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The retirement of Mr Cairns, Lower School caretaker

As the school prepares to sell the "old school", we acknowledge the contribution of a member of support staff who looked after the building - and much… More...

The Penny Street school

A brief look at the very first Portsmouth Grammar School More...

Venues have included HMS Warrior and other historic locations

A brief look at the school's use of Portsmouth and its theatres for its productions More...

Contrasting styles in Portmuthian covers - 1969 and 1971

Thoughts of an anonymous Sixth-former, as published in the Portmuthian in 1969. More...

Cropped sketch by Gerald Tooby of Royston Powell (OP 1934-39), made during an Art lesson

The ups and downs of an Art teacher's life More...

believed to be the first PGS Prefects c 1910

A glimpse into the life of an Edwardian prefect More...

From the cover of "Gem" ;feral pupils and a long-suffering teacher at "St Jim's", a fictional school

A snapshot of PGS misbehaviour from sixty years ago. More...

Roger Black, Ed Leask, James Peters and Ross Morrison

As excitement mounts with the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris, the school celebrates six OPs who have represented their country at the highest athle… More...

Hockey pioneers - the1958 team (photo courtesy Alan Jones)

A glimpse at the origins of the game at PGS More...

Generl Inspection at Hilsea, May 1964

Peter Barnes (OP 1964) recalls life in the Combined Cadet Force sixty years ago More...

Sixth formers studying, c 1928

On the hundredth anniversary of the installation of electricity at PGS, we shed some light on school life, rapid change and "culture wars" at the scho… More...

Troops aboard their landing craft await to leave Portsmouth harbour the day before D-Day

The approaching 80th anniversary of D-Day prompted John Sweetman (OP 1953) to share his memories More...

Cannon Grant from a photo in the Portmuthian, and as depicted by yr 6 pupils on the JS arch.

Today, on the 125th anniversary of his death, we commemorate and celebrate the life of a man who is credited as having saved PGS from permanent closur… More...

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