BOOKS - about the Blue Coat School

NOW AVAILABLE - the Tricentenary series!

A BLUE COAT BOY IN THE 1920s (NOW IN STOCK!)

By Danny Ross (ISBN 978-0-9557484-1-7) 91 pages

Price £7.99 (plus p&p)

In 1996 Danny Ross published this book describing his time at the school. Sadly, Danny passed away in 2004 but his family has been very supportive in allowing us to re-publish this unique book.

MEMORIES FROM THE MID-20th CENTURY (NOW IN STOCK!)

Compiled and edited by Frank Irwin (ISBN 978-0-9557484-2-4) 351 pages

Price £14.99 (plus p&p)

Frank was a pupil in the 1950s and, as well as contributing to the work, has brought together a vast wealth of anecdotes and historical tales of Blue Coat life from the 1920s up to the 1970s - by pupils Ray Livingston, Stan Livingston, Kenneth Hughes, Hubert Manwaring-Spencer, Eric Woodbine, Dave Bolt, William Bowden, Dave Kennedy, Harry Thomas, John Howarth, Brenton Williams, Ernie Foulder, Peter Clarke, Arthur Martin, Margaret Thompson (nee Bond) and Albert Blundell, as well as teachers Frank Hulford and Peter Ling – a fascinating read! The Liverpool Echo reviewed this book on 15th March 2008. See the LATEST NEWS page of this website.

RETURN TO THE BLUE COAT (NOW IN STOCK!)

By Tony Salmon and Alan Gleave (ISBN 978-0-9557484-0-0) 108 pages

Price £7.99 (plus p&p)

Tony Salmon was a “day boy” at the Blue Coat School from 1971 until 1977. Alan Gleave taught English at the school from 1975 until 2005, and the first group he entered for O-level exams contained Tony Salmon. This book looks at the school from two completely different perspectives – or does it?

RECOLLECTIONS OF TWO BLUE COAT BOYS 1944-1955 (NOW IN STOCK!)

By Hugh Stephenson (ISBN 978-0-9557484-3-1) 105 pages

Price £6.99 (plus p&p)

Hugh Stephenson and his twin brother Guy joined the Blue Coat in Beaumaris, and watched a great evolution take place in the life of the school - the return to Liverpool, the transition from Blue Coat Hospital to Blue Coat School, the departure of the girls and the arrival of the day boys.