Welcome
Thank you for visiting the website of Eastbourne Old Grammarians Association (EOGA). The aim of the site is to provide an information and contact point for former pupils and staff of Eastbourne Grammar School (Eastbourne Municipal Secondary School for Boys in its earlier years) and its successor institutions.
Please follow the links below to go to the sections of the site which interest you. This site has been launched in 2022 to replace and update the original site developed nearly 20 years previously. Articles or photographs which illuminate the history and activities of the school and members’ reminiscences and experiences are most welcome and should be submitted to honsec@oldgramms.co.uk
You may also be interested in the Eastbourne Grammar School Facebook Group
For details of the upcoming EOGA events shown below, please email social@oldgramms.co.uk
Events
Members Weekend 2025
Start Date: October 31, 2025
Start Time: 9:30 am
Location: Eastbourne
Spring Golf 2026
Start Date: May 22, 2026
Start Time: 9:30 am
Location: Royal Eastbourne Golf Club
Members Weekend 2026
Start Date: October 30, 2026
Start Time: 9:30 am
Location: Eastbourne
Latest Updates
Contact with EOGA members
October 2024
The Association’s membership database currently includes just over 400 names, which sounds like a very healthy position. However, less than half of that number received and opened recent bulk emails from the Association, which are sent using the Mailchimp platform; there appear to be two main reasons for this:
1. More than 100 member email addresses have been “cleaned” by Mailchimp because of the number of failed delivery attempts, so there maybe a small error in the address or the members have changed their email provider. Those email addresses are no longer included the bulk circulations.
2. With the latest circulation (about the 2024 Members Weekend), nearly 100 emails were not opened, probably because they went into the Junk folder and were not spotted and read.
If you have not recently heard from the Association and wish to resume contact, please send an email to honsec@oldgramms.co.uk, which will provide your current email address. Please also check your Junk folder!
Artefacts being made available to Members
The Executive has decided that various EGS and EOGA artefacts that have been held in store for a considerable number of years should be disposed of. School magazines have been scanned and digitised and are now available via the website; some other documents are still to be scanned. Anything that potentially has long-term historical interest will be offered to the Sussex Record Office and perhaps to the Eastbourne Historical Society but there are a range of other items that the Executive believes should be offered first to EOGA members; hopefully some at least of the items will be claimed by members, otherwise alternative means of disposal will be used.
The items available include trophies, a few items of clothing, school magazines and publications and other documents. In the first instance, these will be on display and available to be claimed at the EOGA Annual Lunch at the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club on 9th November 2024. For a full list of the items available and for any question you may have please contact Chris Bennell at honsec@oldgramms.co.uk
Scanned school magazines available to view
A near complete set of Eastbourne Municipal Secondary School for Boys and Eastbourne Grammar School magazines has now been scanned and digitised and uploaded to the Website; magazines can be viewed through the Archive page in the Memories section of the website. There are also Eastbourne Grammar and High School and Sixth Form College publications and copies of Venture (1958-1961).
Each scanned magazine is held as a PDF, and the magazines are arranged by decade of publication. Once an individual PDF has been downloaded, it can be searched for specified names or words. For those unfamiliar with searching in a PDF, download the magazine, then launch the Find function by pressing the CTRL+F keys; then enter the words or names to be searched in the text box which opens near the top of your screen and view the results.
Reunion for 1980 O-Level Pupils
Just a reminder that there will be a reunion on Saturday 6th July in the upstairs room of the Lamb Inn for those who attended Eastbourne Grammar & High School and who took their O-Levels in 1980. The gathering starts at 19.00 and and a finger buffet will be available from 19.30.
Fred Reeve RIP
4th April
The arrangements for Fred Reeve’s funeral are now known. The service will be held at St Saviour’s Church, South Street, Eastbourne at 11am on Thursday 13th April. Family flowers only; a collection will be taken at the service in aid of The Work at St Saviour’s and Books2Africa.org