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Hackney Downs School was an 11–16 boys,
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comprehensive
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in
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, England. It was established in 1876 and closed in 1995. It has been replaced by the
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History


Grocers' Company's School

It was founded in 1876 as The Grocers' Company's School. On its transfer to the London County Council in 1906 the school was renamed Hackney Downs School.


Second World War

The school was evacuated to
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on Friday 13 October 1939. Only half of those eligible to be evacuated moved to King's Lynn. Sir
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joined the school in 1944 in King's Lynn, and had been evacuated to North Runcton in 1939. Maurice Vile, Barry Supple and painter Leon Kossoff were evacuated with the school. 370 boys and teachers were in the Norfolk villages of Outwell and
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from 2 September 1939, where they worked in the orchards. Nutritionist John Yudkin, who went to the school in the 1920s, gave a lecture in King's Lynn on 'Health in Wartime' on Friday 12 September 1941. Harold Pinter was evacuated in 1944, with a schoolmaster, which he wrote about in his play A Slight Ache. The school stayed until July 1945, almost six years.


Grammar school

The school was noted for educating Jewish Londoners, with alumni including
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-winning playwright
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, fellow playwright and actor
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, 1960s tycoon John Bloom and nutritionist John Yudkin. Two current members of the
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are former pupils: ( Lord Levy and Lord Clinton-Davis). The school had 600 boys with a sixth-form entry by the early 1970s. Former high jumper and Board Director of
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Bid Team
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attended Hackney Downs School in the 1980s.


Comprehensive

In 1969 it became a comprehensive school. By the time of its closure, over 70 per cent of the boys spoke English as a second language, half came from households with no-one in employment, and half the intake had reading ages three years below average.


Decline and closure

Things came to a head in the 1990s, when the school made national news by being described by the then
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government as the 'worst school in Britain'. Eventually, as a result of direct government pressure, the school was forced to close in 1995.


Later use of the building

The site of the old school is now occupied by
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, founded by Sir Clive Bourne, which opened in 2004. The school buildings of both the original Grocers' Company's School and Hackney Downs School have gone.


Old boys

The Old Boys of Hackney Downs continue their interactions as alumni through the Clove Club, which meets regularly, has its own website, and sponsors an email group called ''The Clove eGroup'' (on
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), and featured on The Clove Club website.''The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School'' 3.2 (Mar. 2009): 32.


History of the school

An official history of the school was published by the Clove Club in 1972. An updated edition was published in 2012: ''Hackney Downs 1876-1995: The Life and Death of a School.''


Headmasters

John Kemp - 1974 to 1989. Thomas O. Balk - 1935 to 1952.


Notable alumni


Hackney Downs School (1974–95)

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, high jumper * Geoffrey Hanks, professor of palliative care medicine *
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Boys' grammar school (1906–74)

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* Sir Edward Bairstow, organist of York Minster 1913–46, composer (attended 1889–91) * Alexander Baron, writer * Morris Beckman, writer and
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, actor,
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* Gerald Bernbaum, Vice-Chancellor 1993–2001 of
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* Mike Berry, singer and actor * John Bloom, 1960s
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(attended 1944–45, evacuated to
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)For an account of his evacuation and early school years, as sent to Jerry Pam—another Hackney Downs pupil whom he met in the 1950s, who was six years his senior, and who has become his publicist for "over 50 years"—see "MC" ichael Caine "A Message from Evacuee Maurice Micklewhite", ''The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School'' 3.2 (March 2009): 16. * Roland Camberton, writer *
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*Paul Dean CB, Director National Physical Laboratory 1977-90 * Prof David Dolphin, OC, FRS, chemist, inventor of Visudyne, winner of Canada's Hertzberg Meda
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* Maurice Evans, actor, noted for his interpretations of
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characters * Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, businessman and Conservative party peer * Frederic Sutherland Ferguson, bibliographer * Abram Games OBE,
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* Douglas Gough, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics since 1993 at the
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, Canada * Brigadier Sam Janikoun OBE. * Stanley Joslin, Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations 1959–64 at the Ministry of Power * Leon Kossoff, painter * Stephen Latner, Managing Director 1998–99 of Warburg Dillon Read * Michael Levy, Baron Levy *
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* Dennis Lyons CB, director 1965–71 of the Road Research Laboratory * Leonard Millis CBE, director 1939–74 of the British Waterworks Association * Stephen M. Milner Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 1961-1968 * Cyril Offord, Professor of Mathematics 1966–73 at the
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(LSE) * Stanley Orman, Director of Missiles 1978–81 at the AWRE, and Chief Weapon System Engineer of
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1981–82 * Fuller Osborn, Chief Executive 1965–78 of Northern Rock Building Society * Jerry Pam, Hollywood agent and member of the Finance Committee of the
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), "A Message from Evacuee Maurice Micklewhite", ''The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School'' 3.2 (March 2009): 16. Print. (Sent by Michael Caine to Jerry Pam for publication in this issue.)
* Keith Pavitt, of the Science and Technology Policy Research * Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End, English economist, Professor of Economics 1965–88 at Queen Mary College, and father of
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, playwright, screenwriter, director and actor * Prof Derek S. Pugh, British psychologist, business theorist and Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University Business School (attended 1944–48, evacuated to
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during World War II) * Henry Richardson, film editor * Lt Col F. J. Roberts, editor of '' The Wipers Times'' * Philip Robinson, executive director, Financial Services Authority 1998–2009 * Norman Rose, biographer of
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* Alfred Sherman, journalist * Barrie Sherman, trade unionist * Colin Shindler, first professor of Israeli Studies in the UK,
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* Barry Supple CBE, professor of economic history 1981–93
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, and father of Tim Supple (attended 1942–49) * Maurice Vile, Professor Emeritus and former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the University of Kent * William Warbey, Labour MP 1945–50 for
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Grocers' Company's School (1876–1906)

* Cecil J. Allen, author, musician, lecturer, who wrote more than 700 articles about locomotives and over 40 books on railways of Europe, attended the Grocer's Company's School circa 1898 * F. Britten Austin, playwright whose book ''The Drum'' would be made into '' The Last Outpost'' * Sir Robert Barlow, businessman, former Chairman of the Metal Box Company * Prof Raymond Wilson Chambers, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature 1922–41 at
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Notes and references


Sources

*O'Connor, Maureen, et al. ''Hackney Downs: The School That Dared to Fight''. London: Cassell, 1999. (10). (13). Print. *Watkins, G. L., ed. ''The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of the Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School''. Print. (Some issues are accessible online at the website of the Clove Club.) *Watkins, G. L., ed. '' 'Fortune's Fool': A Life of Joe Brearley: The Man Who Taught Harold Pinter''. Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Eng.: TwigBooks, 2008. Print.


External links


The Clove Club
("Founded in 1884") – Official website of "The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School, formerly the Grocers' Company's School – founded by the Company in its corporate right, in 1876."
Social Change and English, 1945–1965
- Hackney Downs is one of three schools in London that are included in this Leverhulme Trust-funded project about the teaching of English in the period 1945–65. The project is collecting oral histories from former teachers and pupils at the school. ;News

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