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 have had contact from Chris Baughan at HC 1939/49 . Chris advises that 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 today 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
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The late Chris Woods clic on name for obituary
