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Our database holds information about all pupils of the former York Place / Varndean (Grammar) School for Boys 1884-1975, including the "Mixed" School up to that year. It also holds some information that we have received about former pupils of Varndean Girls School, Varndean High School and Varndean College, though this is far from complete. If you are aware of names that are missing from the list, then please let me know.

When searching, you may enter either a surname, a year group or both. In this context, a person's yeargroup is the year in which they would have reached the age of 11 years, irrespective of when they actually started at the school/college - this is a "best attempt" at grouping people correctly. For instance, the majority of people who were born between September 1959 and August 1960 started at secondary school in September 1971, so would appear in that yeargroup. Where someone is known to have belonged to a different yeargroup (perhaps they entered Varndean when they were 10 years old), then an override has been put in place to reflect this.

An underscore character ("_") may be used as a wildcard to replace a single character. For example, if you search for "HEN_Y" then your search will return both HENLY and HENTY. However, if you enter "HENL_" then HENLY will be returned but not HENLEY. You may enter multiple underscore charaters if you wish - for instance if you enter "19__" in the yeargroup then your search will return members of every yeargroup in the twentieth century. Be warned though - the wider your search, the slower the response!

 

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