Another for music lovers!
French Horn player Tom Kane (fifth from left), who attended BGS from 1993-2001, is pictured in readiness to play Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, ‘The Leningrad’, with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra [...]
Chris Gray for BBC Radio 3 double
Many thanks to Ian Hunter for the following diary information for old boy music lovers, concerning past pupil Chris Gray (Connor House and BGS, 1982-96), who is Director of [...]
Annual general meeting of Bangor Grammarians
THE annual general meeting of our parent organisation, Bangor Grammarians, will take place at the School on Monday evening 4 December 2017, beginning with a pre-Christmas reception at 6.30pm [...]
Bangor Dinner deadline
Grammarians and friends, This is a final reminder that the deadline for the receipt of Bangor Dinner forms, cheques and online payments is this Wednesday (following that day’s postal [...]
Bangor Dinner – on the home straight!!
The annual old boys' dinner at the Marine Court Hotel is nearly here. Numbers are already looking very promising for Friday 10 November, with several Year Groups already hitting [...]
London Dinner date and venue
London Dinner organiser Stephen Montgomery has confirmed that next year's dinner, as indicated in the 2017 Grammarian magazine, will be held on Friday 16 March 2018. The venue will [...]
Ian Hunter’s Grammarian magazine article – the extended version!
The current (2017) edition of past pupils' magazine The Grammarian contains numerous interesting articles, most with accompanying pictures, which cover life at Bangor Grammar School from the 1940s (and [...]
Jonny and Jordie pay wonderful tribute to their friend Michael Whitford
When the editor of The Grammarian, the annual magazine for past pupils of Bangor Grammar School, invited past contributor Jonny Blair to write a tribute (for the forthcoming 2017 [...]
Three ‘lost’ swimming trophies are returned to BGS Archives
Bangor Grammarians are delighted to announce that no fewer than three seemingly lost swimming trophies have now been restored to the BGS Archives thanks to the online appeal that [...]
Can you help us to locate these long-lost BGS swimming trophies?
One of the few surviving photographs - taken by the County Down Spectator at the 1966 Gala - that features all the cups awarded for swimming. From left: [...]