Kingsbridge Grammar School: A memory of Kingsbridge

Kingsbridge Grammar School

A Memory of Kingsbridge.

I attended KGS from 1952 - 1959.
The Old Grammar School seen in this picture had long been replaced by a much larger building in Westville, Kingsbridge.
For the first couple of terms, I remember walking in file from Westville, past the railway station, to this building where we sat on long benches and ate our school dinners.
It is a handsome building and now houses the William Cookworthy Museum.

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I arrived at KGS in 1959 and was glad to be spared the lengthy dinnertime hike by the Westville canteen - no joke on a soaking day. My first school was the Prep school a bit further up Fore St and I remember seeing the files of Grammar School pupils, all grown up, it seemed when I was small.
In the 1930s, my grandmother, Annie Wellington, was cook at KGS.
Mary Potter

By glassingall on Thu Sep 14th 2017, at 3:47 pm

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I was at KGS exactly the same time as Bill Lapthorne. And yes, the girls walked up to the Old Grammar School for lunches from Twyford! I remember the temptation of the sweet shop in the Shambles .... and the fish and chip shop too. My god, that was 75 years ago!

By Jo Pleshakov on Wed Oct 15th 2025, at 11:27 pm

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