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Heanor Grammar School replied on: 3/16/2008 5:45:58 PM follow on from Visions of Boyhood "From the start heanor secndary School offered an exciting range of sporting ...activities There was a tradition of rifle shooting going back to the years 1906 and 1909 when the team from the technical school competed at Bisley with great success. mr Roday Barnes developed fencing with great enthusiasm and success. There was football and cricket on the town recreation ground, with hockey for the girls. The school owed the use of the recreation ground to Mr Stoddard, who aquired its tenancy in 1908 (paying mr Mundy an annual rental of £100). After the school held the tenancy for several years and spent a lot of money on improvemens, the ground was taken over by the HUDC, who refunded the money which had been expended by the school.We continued to have occasional use of the ground but it was not until 1926 that the present school playing fields were purchased for £3750. When I started at heanor secondary school there was a strng tradition for both football and cricket. In football there were still echoes of the great Alf Fisher, later a league footballer, and of the reowned harry Storer, whose long career in top class cricket and football i followed through the years. I think it was in my second year that the house system was started. This was used as a basis for competitive sport in every branch, culminating in the annal sports day, when all the points previously carried were brought forward as a strating point for the days events. The three houses were respectively named Ray, Howitt and Flamstead and we felt we were honoured to have such illustrious names with their local associations. more to follow

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