"You are indeed right - this is the current incarnation of Huish's Boys Grammar School. I'm not sure I can bring you up to date with 50 years of intervening history in one e-mail - not of course that I'm familiar with it all - but here's some of it.

"The Grammar school moved from its location in Silver Street to the present site in South Road (opposite Kings College) in 1963. As a former pupil of HGS myself I enjoyed(?) two years in the cold old buildings with the fume cupboards which extracted the chemical stinks straight out into the main corridor. My overwhelming memories are of the big-freeze winter of January 1963 and coke braziers dotted around the school to try to warm it up. It didn't work as one snowball rolled to the front of a music lesson testified by refusing to melt during the 40 minute that followed.

"The Silver Street site is now the car park of Sainsbury's supermarket, and a re-modelled bit of Mansfield Road runs where the Geography rooms and dining hall used to be. [see the aerial photograph in History XII - BP] The (then) new purpose-built buildings were generally considered to be a great success. As a 13-year old at the time I definitely approved of not having to walk 2 miles to Rose Meadows football field but of having those sorts of facilities on site.

"In 1978/9 the reorganisation of secondary schools in Taunton finally saw the end of grammar schools in the town. Bishop Fox's became an 11-16 comprehensive school comparable with the former secondary modern schools. (Incidently, BF has recently been re-located from its site on the north side of town to a bit of former "green wedge" just the other side of a row of trees from us.) HGS became Richard Huish Sixth-Form College dealing in 16-19 year olds and girls! The staff of the new college was composed of a mixture of incumbent HGS staff and former BF teachers anxious to retain their sixth-form work. It was quite a change."