Harborne Collegiate

These pages are dedicated to former pupils of Harborne Collegiate that merged with Greenmore in 1958/9.

Please send any history of Harborne Collegiate to me and I will put it on the Site.

 Updated Contact from Chris Baughan

I-----Original Message----- From: Alec Baughan [mailto:alec.baughan@triscar.com] Sent: 19 March 2009 16:45 To: Nigel Hinton Subject: Message from Greenmore::

Sad news regarding Chris Baughan On your harborne_collegiate page you have an entry regarding my Dad, Chris Baughan, with his lordswood email address. It is with sad and deepest regret that I must inform you that my Dad died yesterday, 18 March 2009 from pneumonia. He had been suffering for several years from CPOD, which eventually led to him contracting the pneumonia. He died at Broadford Hospital on the Isle of Skye, where he lived the last 11 years in retirement. He was 76. If anyone would like more details, please feel free to contact me. Alec Baughan.

 

I had had a contact from Chris Baughan at HC 1939/49 . Chris advised me he has placed a large quantity of Memorobilia at Harborne Library.

Original Prospectus by A.C.Banks which includes photgraphs of HC in Court Oak Road. There are also School Magazines with lots of names etc from the post war period. Chris would like to hear from any former HC people contact him chris@lordswood.co.uk

Chris Baughan found this on 6/11/2007 and copied it for the H C pages

Wiltshire | Archive | 2006 | July | 20
Keep on coaching

>From the The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, first published Thursday 20th Jul 2006.

Your article about Ivor Verdun Powell brought back many memories. In the late forties and early fifties I was a pupil at Harborne Collegiate School, Birmingham.

One morning we were called into the common room and informed Ivor Powell would be our football coach. This was a great thrill for us as the majority of us were Aston Villa supporters.

I remember the first afternoon he arrive at Selly Oak Park in a secondhand Morris Eight to coach us, a far cry from the present day footballers' more exotic form of transport. If memory serves me, he received the princely sum of two pounds per session.

He was one of the early exponents of the long throw-in, which at that time disconcerted opposing defences.

Ivor was part of the Aston Villa half back line, together with Frank Moss and Con Martin, they didn't take many prisoners.

During his time with Aston Villa he had two cartilage operations but after never seemed to recapture his previous form.

Keep on coaching Ivor.

J GOODE.

Calne

 John Farmer who like to hear from any former pupil from the late 50s early 60s. Contact John at fsfarmeroo@yahoo.com

 

 Famous Old Boy

Former Traffic member

The late Chris Woods clic on name for obituary