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Diss Grammar
School
Formerly — The Old Dyssean
Society's Website
www.old-dyssean-society.org
The society
is no longer in existence but this website
is allied to the Diss
Grammar School Facebook group.
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DGS Facebook Group
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School
- Sports 
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School
Sports and Sports Days.
At the top are some images and further down sports day programmes.
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Cricket 1935
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Football 1949/50
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enlarge.
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Back
row — Reggie Wright, Jimmy Morely, John Alston, Gerald
Philpot, Bob Jennigs, ?, Reg Patterson.
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Front
row — Ivor Allen, Graham Borrett, Geoffrey Harvey,
, ? Rampling, John(?) Frost, Bernard(?) Potter, Brian Woodrow.
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Athletics 1952
(ATC 1070 squadron)
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Back
row — Rob Bloom, ?, Jim Lawn, 'Googie' Withers, John
Alston, Geoffrey Harvey, ?, Pete Jones, David Bryant, R.
G. Patterson, David Coote.
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Front
row — ?, (Peter) Butcher (twin), Bob(?) Jennings, (John)
Butcher (twin).
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Hockey 1955/56
(or 54/55)
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Back
row — Rosemary Moorecroft, ?, Jennifer Mullenger, Miss
Johnson, Jean Bullock, ?, Christine Locke.
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Front
row — June Allen, ?, Jill Boggis (?), Janet Patterson,
Kathleen Brown.
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Football 1962/63
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Hockey 1965
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Back
row — Sarah Bartrum, Jane Govier, ?, ?, Jackie Hosford,
Beverley Gilbert.
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Front
row — ?, Sonia Fieblekorn, Judith ?, ?, Clare Beattie.
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Netball 1966/67
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Back
row — Maggie Dixon, Pat Coles (?), Sonia Fieblekorn.
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Front
row — Elizabeth Elsden, Sylvia Rollinsin, Helen Soar,
Susan Brown, Sekeeta Hancock.
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Football, First
XI, 1981
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Sailing
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Reg
Wright and Paul Madgett (DGS 1954-61)
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Sailing
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Is that
Reggie ?
Sailing took place on
Filby Broad for learners and Barton Broad for the more experienced.
It was a voluntary weekend or school holiday activity.
John Blagden, 'Dewberry'
Daniels and Reg Wright were the tutors.
* The Bittern
Dinghy was designed to a commission from the Norfolk Schools
Training Association for a training dinghy. Approximately 60
were produced.
Bittern statistics:
° Length:
° Width:
° Rig type:
° Crew:
° Sail area:
° Design year:
° Designer
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3.5m (11ft 6in)
1.45m (4ft 9in)
Bermuda Sloop Fractional with jib.
2
7.2 sq m
1959
Leslie Landamore
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A Bittern class* wooden
boat, sailing
dinghy.
It was made at school in the winter of 1960 led by Bob 'Oboe' Aberdein
(woodwork teacher). We then sailed it until summer 1980. When Eye
came over they brought their dinghy, a 12' international Cadet,
we used both until the Grammar School finished, although we only
had one trailer. The management of the High School felt that they
were no longer of interest, especially as the Norfolk Schools'
Sailing Association had a permanent base at Filby Broad with a
fleet of boats already there, that could be used by any school,
as long as they had qualified instructors. The Cadet was a popular
junior boat with many sailing clubs so could easily be sold, the
Bittern was only of limited interest. At that time Jill Blagden
(domestic science teacher) was the County Outdoor Activities Advisor
for Norfolk Girl Guides so she arranged for them to buy it, without
the trailer. The trailer was not needed once we had taken it to
their canoeing/sailing base. I (John Blagden maths and physics
teacher) bought the trailer for myself as my own was clapped out.
I towed my own boat quite a lot although she was based at the Oulton
Broads Sailing Club. The Dyssean was renamed Lady Mayhew. Lady
Mayhew was President of the Norfolk Guides, and also a keen and
successful sailor herself, particularly of the old 'Norfolk Brown
Boats'. As it says in your cutting (see
above left) after some 20 years of use by the guides she
needed a lot of work doing, particularly with regard to the centre
board housing. An Old Dyssean, Sandra Elliner, who had learned
to sail in her herself, kept me in the picture. She was well able
to do this as she was the Norfolk County Girl Guides' canoeing
instructor.
By John Blagden Jan 2012.
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Athletics — 1954/55,
110yds relay team
Norfolk champions for 2 years running
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Athletics — Sept
2003
Old Dyssean Reunion at Diss Golf Club
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L-R:
- Peter Jones,
Ray 'Ramon' Button, Reg Wright, Barry Skipper, David Hawes.
(rollover
image)
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Sports
Day Programmes.
Cross
country, Long jump, High jump, Discus, Javelin, 1 mile, Weight
put (4 kg), Pole vault,
Triple jump, Hurdles, 440 yards, 70 yards, 90 yards, 100 yards,
Throwing the hammer (4 kg),
880 yards, 4x100 yards relay, 3x110 yards relay, Weight put (10
lbs), 220 yards,
Obstacle race, House relay.
Grecians v Persians v Romans |
Sports Day Programme (flip
book)
July 16th 1963
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Sports Day Programme (flip
book)
July 13th 1965
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