Catalogue description Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College, Brighton

For records of the Proprietary Grammar and Commercial School, Brighton Grammar School Ltd and the Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School, 1859-1934 see R/C 63/1-31 and for 1899-1973 see R/E 2/46/1-11; for title deeds of 80 Buckingham Road, 1868-1929 see R/C 4/82/3; for title deeds of the Old Shoreham Road site, 1853-1912 see R/C 4/306; for agreements, admission forms and teachers' employment agreements, 1899-1973 see R/E 2/46; for minutes of the governing body, 1906-1974 see E/MA/33/1-4; for files on the school, 1932-1933, 1938 see C/C 82, 93; for annual reports, 1937-1939 see C/E 39/1; for prospectus and reports, 1867-1890 see AMS 6030/1-3; for general file of Brighton LEA, 1947-1974 see R/E 2/69/4; for correspondence concerning financial matters, including teachers' salaries, purchase of the site and equipment, annual reports, 1913-1952 see C/T 14/2; for annual accounts, 1951-1957 see C/T 16/10; for file concerning financial matters, including an annual account of 1965, 1965-1967 see C/T 17/7; for annual lists of special places awarded to East Sussex pupils, 1933-1936 see C/E 18/2; for general file including modification of the agreement relating to the control of the school, 1938-1950 see R/C 24/16; for file concerning the future administration of the school, 1945-1948 see R/C 24/21; for file concerning an enquiry into an allegedly irregular admission of a child to the school, 1952-1953 see R/C 24/28; for contract to provide science accommodation and a new toilet block by McKellar and Westman, 1961 see R/C 33/55; for file concerning the creation of Sixth Form Colleges, 1979-1980 see R/E 2/68/88; for file concerning the history and administration of the school, 1947-1974 see R/E 2/69/4; for correspondence, governors' reports and statements of account, 1909-1924 see R/E 5/3/71; for plan of proposed formation of a road at the corner of the site of the school, 1913 see DB/D 46/815; for plan of drainage at the headmaster's house and hostel, 1913 see DB/D 46/822; for plan of proposed cricket pavilion, 1920 see DB/D 46/871; for prospectuses, 1931-1939 and Old Boys' Association papers, 1949-1950 see ACC 6974/1; for records of the Past and Present Masonic Lodge (?the school's own lodge), 1897-1989 see ACC 7569; for additional records including pupil record cards, c1896-1961 and admission registers, 1900-1923 see ACC 6528C

Individual pupil records

The records of pupils at the school may be traced using the pupil record cards, 1892-1960, (7/1-3), the admission registers, 1900-1945, (6/1/1-15), and the fee account books, 1859-1917 (8/1-20). The record cards are arranged by surname in two separate index series. The earlier index (7/2) gives details of pupils admitted between 1892 and 1932. The second index is more detailed and covers admissions for 1924-1960 (7/3). There is an overlap between the two series with some pupils appearing in both. The surname of the pupil should be given as well as the reference when ordering these records

The admission registers may also be used for pupils admitted from 1900 (6/1/1-15). The admission certificate counterfoils, which survive from 1920-1946, give similar details but also include the name of the school house to which each pupil belonged

For pupils attending the school before 1892 the only surviving records are the fee account books, which date from 1859 to 1875 (8/1-2). A later volume also exists for 1907-1917 (8/3). These records are not so detailed as the indexes and admission registers. They contain quarterly lists of pupils together with the names of parents or proprietors responsible for the fees and a record of the payments made

Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College, Brighton, East Sussex

Records transferred by the school 31 May 1990 (ACC 5503), 14 Nov 1994 (ACC 6528), 5 Sep 1997 (ACC 7564); for unlisted records see ACC 8469

The school was opened on 18 July 1859 under the title of the Brighton Proprietary Grammar and Commercial School for the Sons of Tradesmen. The proprietors each had a share in the school and were entitled to take up places there. The education given had a Protestant bias and the first headmaster was the Rev John Griffiths, formerly of Brighton College

The school was first established in Lancaster House, 47 Grand Parade. It was held initially on an eight-year lease at £120 per annum from Samuel King of 27 Edwards Street, Portman Square, London gent commencing 25 March 1859, and subsequently from 24 June 1867 on a one-year lease at £150 per annum from Stephen Nicolson Barber of Denmark Hill, Camberwell in Surrey, esq (formerly of 7 Cowpers Court, Cornhill in London, stockbroker)

In September 1867 a joint stock company was formed with a capital of £2000 to purchase new premises. On the expiry of the lease the school moved to80 Buckingham Road on 27 May 1868. Ownership of the £10 shares carried the right to nominate pupils to the school, which was from March 1873 known as the Brighton Grammar School Limited

In 1900 the school purchased 12 Buckingham Road for use as the site of the Lower School, and in 1902 fifteen acres of land at Withdean for sporting facilities. The latter was sold in 1917

Under the terms of the Education Act 1902 the Board of Education was unable to give grants to schools constituted as limited liability companies. It was therefore necessary for the Brighton Grammar School Limited to be voluntarily wound up and its assets transferred to a trust, which took place on 15 October 1906. The governing body was constituted from the directors of the former company and representatives from the East Sussex County Council, Brighton County Borough and Hove Borough Councils

The school, however, failed to prosper financially and by 1910 was in liquidation. On 27 August 1910 the school site was purchased by the local education authorities that had already provided the governing body from 1906

A new site for the school was purchased on 15 January 1912 from the Goldsmid Estate for £4000. The site lay at the junction of Old Shoreham Road and Dyke Road, and the three authorities entered into agreements for the school's government. Brighton County Borough was the principal authority and took on the administrative and legal work of running the school

The new school was designed by S B Russell and cost £25000 to build; the foundation stone was laid on 13 June 1912 and the move to the new site took place on 17 September 1913 (E/SC/214/24/2-60). The school was then known as the Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School. The Grammar School was abolished in 1975 and the site used by newly formed Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College

Headmasters (1859-1975) and Principals (from 1975)

Dr J Saunders Muir (1859-1861)

Ebenezer James Marshall (1861-1899)

Thomas Read (1899-1924)

William Arthur Barron (1924-1948)

Harry Brogden JP MA (1948-1970)

Philip W Rogers MA MC (1970-1983)

Vaughan Williams MA (1984- )

1 Annual reports of the governing body and annual balance sheets; 1924-1942

2 Reports from committees and staff to the governing body; 1925-1932

3 Shareholders' minutes; 1920-1929

4 Brighton Grammar School Ltd Director's Visiting Committee; 1894-1960

6 Admission registers; 1900-1946

7 Pupil records; c1892-1960

8 Pupils' fees; 1859-1917

9 Staff registers; 1862-1932

10 Prefects' meetings minute books; 1939-1955

11 Photographs of prefects; 1925-1945

12 School porter; 1886-1893

13 HMI reports; 1905-1952

14 Prospectuses and rules of the school; 1859-1992

15 Annual returns to the Board of Education; 1907-1944

16 School stock; 1871

17 Account books; 1894-1904

18 Annual balance sheets; 1916-1943

19 School Treasury; 1887-1891

20 School War Memorial; 1918-1950

21 School Centenary; 1959-1971

22 Reorganisation of the school; 1906

23 School charities; 1925-1965

24 School buildings: plans and photographs; 1859-1962

25 School scrapbooks; 1859-1925

26 Photographs of former headmasters; 1898-1968

27 Smith House records; 1908-1928

28 Ireland House records; 1908-1945

29 Marshall House records; 1897-1974

30 Other house records; 1908-1963

31 School excursions and lectures; 1879-1933

32 Photographs of entrants to the Cambridge Local Examinations; 1874-1931

33 School plays and entertainments; 1886-1963

34 Games Committee minute books; 1931-1971

35 Graves Cup score books; 1946-1977

36 School sports day programmes; 1889-1956

37 Athletics photographs; 1890-1945

38 Cricket team photographs; 1890-c1970

39 Football team photographs; 1889-1963

40 Other sports photographs; 1891-c1965

41 Other photographs; 1903-1968

42 Artwork and caricatures by pupils; c1890-1910

43 The school Combined Cadet Force; 1959-1964

44 School magazine; 1872-1991

45 Old Boys' Association Friday Evening meeting minute books; 1869-1970

46 Old Boys' Association committee meeting minute books; 1871-1934

47 Old Boys' Association Brighton committee minute books; 1892-1913

48 Photographs of Old Boy reunions and dinners; 1884-1961

49 Photographs of the Old Boys' cricket and football teams; 1884-1939

50 Photograph albums presented to the Old Boys' Association by the directors of the school; 1875

51 Pictures of old boys in the armed forces; 1914-1946

52 Other photographs taken by old boys; 1904-c1905

53 Old Boys' Association other records; 1888-1984

54 Other records; 1862-1988

55 Aubrey Beardsley: The Yellow Book; 1894-1895

56 Aubrey Beardsley: printed works; 1886-1976

57 Aubrey Beardsley: exhibition pamphlets; 1914-1984

58 Aubrey Beardsley: illustrations; 1884-1898

59 Aubrey Beardsley: other records; 1888-c1990

60 Official school group photographs; 1869-1988

61 Chichester House records; 1920-1961

62 School shooting records; 1961-1974

63 Cambridge examination results; 1908-1950

64 Student magazines; 1978-1990

65 Records of Ebenezer James Marshall; 1899-1914