Gregg Grammar School

A Memory of Ealing.

During the mid 70's I attended the above school for a few terms. It was half a normal school, and also had a secretarial section that taught Gregg shorthand & touch typing. My aunt taught the secretarial students. I commuted in from Raynes Park, first by bus, then by train. It was near to the Ealing Broadway underground station.
On the school side Mr Scott was the headmaster. He claimed to be a neighbour of the singer Engelbert Humperdinck. Other teachers I recall were Miss Gash, who taught Spanish, & a Mr Singh, who taught Maths. The uniform was a dark & pale blue striped blazer, with a thin yellow stripe & matching tie. Very expensive, as I recall.
The school was multicultural compared to the small town in Somerset I'd lived in, but I soon accepted it as normal. I remember Julian Knight, Munazza Khan & Nuneat Khosa & a white lad called Russell as being my best friends there.
As I wore glasses & wasn't very athletic, I became a goalkeeper in the 2nd 11 - Mr Scott's son was head prefect & keeper in the 1st. We also had a cricket team - again, dominated by the older boys. We didn't mind, as we were turned loose in a neighbouring adventure playground.
We were punished by writing 'lines' for the silliest things - I recall the whole school (except for the Chinese twins who'd 'shopped' us!) getting lines for going out in the playground when it was raining.
Found very little about the school on the web, apart from one of the girls from the '60's married one of the Stones or Faces. Thinking about it, it was quite run down, & I was not surprised to hear it did not carry on for long after I left