Talk:Eltham College

Coeducational
I started in the first year of the senior school in 1984, and the 6th form was already coeducational at that point - my sister attended the school herself from 1987-89, so I think the claim that the 6th form went coed in 1994 is well over a decade out.

It certainly is! I remember that the first few girls were admitted to the 6th Form when I was in the 5th Form (1979). The following year (1980) no girls were allowed to join the 6th Form as a parent had objected on the grounds that the school's constitution (?) defined it as a school for boys. The document was revised that year, allowing girls to be admitted to the Lower 6th again the following year (1981, the year I joined the Upper 6th). Therefore the 6th Form has presumably been coeducational continuously since 1981. I'll amend the text. [signed Rick Lewis 22/8/06]

Where's the picture?
I think an image of the school would be highly informative. There was a picture of the previous headmaster Paul J. Henderson standing outside the school but it appears to have been removed. Was there some sort of copyright infringement? - SC 28th May 2007
 * Yes, it was, what is known as, replaceable fair use. -- zzuuzz (talk) 00:11, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Changing the subject slightly, are there any open source images of the full school crest on the internet? There's a version on Google Images, but I'm not sure if it's open source —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.244.147 (talk) 21:28, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Notable former pupils
I have deleted all the non-notable people listed below (ie: those without separate articles). Some of these may well be notable, but nobody's got round to writing their article yet - hence keeping their details here.... Paul W (talk) 19:32, 31 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Prof. Simon Batterbury, Lancaster Univeristy
 * Prof Bill Deakin, Professor of Psychiatry since 1990 at the University of Manchester
 * Alan Furness CMG, Ambassador to Senegal from 1993-7
 * Stephen Hockman, QC
 * Prof Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science since 1990 at the University of Cambridge
 * Rear Adm Philip Marrack CB, commanded the Admiralty Reactor Test Establishment, Dounreay from 1967–70
 * Prof Bob Mash, Stellenbosch University
 * Dr Andrew McCulloch, Chief Executive since 2002 of the Mental Health Foundation
 * Prof Philip Page, Professor of Organic Chemistry since 2007 at the University of East Anglia
 * Brian Southam, academic publisher and authority on Jane Austen
 * Prof Geoffrey Waywell, Professor of Classical Archaeology from 1987-2004 at King's College London, and Director from 1996-2004 of the Institute of Classical Studies
 * K P Witney, C.V.O., M. A. Under Secretary in the Home Office, retiring in 1976. Distinguished historian of Kent in the Anglo-Saxon period. His books include "The Jutish Forest" and "The Kingdom of Kent". Chairman of the Federation of Amenities Societies in 1981. Born 1916, now deceased.