The Brun

School Yearbooks and Memories

I've finished moving my office. Moving stuff that hasn't been touched for years, can trigger memories. I came across yearbooks from my old Grammar School; they encapsulated the ethos of the school. This yearbook, the Brun, was named after the river Brun that flows through the town of Burnley (Lancs, UK).
This set me off into researching the history of the school; which was over 400 years old and came about due to the closure of an even older chantry school; and the area. I wrote seven articles about the town, the school and the politics that forced it to close.
There are fewer and fewer Old Boys from Burnley Grammar School; the association is moribund. Their memories die with them and tattered copies of the Brun will end up flung into the rubbish bin of history, along with the school. For reasons of nostalgia I reproduced my copies of the the Brun. These are available for Burnley Grammar School Old Boys via the following direct web addresses:


The Brun 1968 – A History of Burnley
http://www.lulu.com/content/14313979
The Brun 1969 – Burnley Grammar School
http://www.lulu.com/content/14322173
The Brun 1970 – Politics in Education
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344079
The Brun 1971 – Education, Then and Now
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344080
The Brun 1972 – The Brun: Advertisements
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344081
The Brun 1973 – Technical
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344082
The Brun 1974 – Fly on a Wall
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344083

Appended to each edition are articles looking at a separate facets of UK education. The Brun project was completed early January. See also: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/archietp/ta...