From: Brian Screaton
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 at 11:20
Subject: More News
Hello,
Some more snippets of news for you. Firstly a report and photographs of the Special Viewing of Peter Robinson's wonderful Photographic Exhibition can be found on our Facebook page and also on the website (https://www.wyvernians.org.uk). Hope I've got it right this time! The exhibition,which includes many of Peter's iconic sports photos, is titled 'Keep off the Grass'. It will be open to the public free of charge until 10 January 2026 from Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm, and on Saturdays from midday to 5pm and is in the Leicester Gallery of the Vijay Patel Building, on the campus of De Montfort University, Mill Lane, Leicester, LE2 7PT. It is well worth making the effort to see the exhibition, and also how the DMU campus has changed.
Secondly, Bob Childs reports that he has donated further documents relating to the school in its various guises to the Record Office for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland at Long Street Wigston LE18 2AH. It will however take some time for them to be catalogued and available for inspection. The Record Office website is at https://www.recordoffice.org.uk, which gives details of opening hours. Further information about the recent donation can be obtained from Bob at bobchilds@hotmail.co.uk. The Record Office has provided Bob with a list of the items that they hold, which have been catalogued, and this is attached
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The Record Office provided the following information regarding access - "It is easy to access the records here. All you have to do is to bring in two forms of identification with a full name, address and signature on, in order to be registered. There are two forms of registration; one is a day pass if you think it is a one-off visit. For visitors who think their visits will be ongoing they are advised to obtain an ARA card that lasts for five years and can be used in most county record offices around the country. This latter method will require us to take a photograph of yourself which goes on our database of registrations".
I realise that this is not of great interest to those who live abroad, and as far as I know none of the items listed have been digitised as yet. However the Record Office staff are very good at answering emails or telephone enquiries (recordoffice@leics.gov.uk or 0116 2571080).
Lastly, if it's not too early, may I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful New Year. I've just realised - 2025 marked the sixtieth year since I left City Boys, just before the move to Downing Drive - where have the years gone?
Kind regards,
Brian
