The Maltonian Website - for Malton School
Recent Maltonians contacts and new uploads
1960s Exam Papers
Posted on 23 April 2026
Clive Duggleby emailed to tell me he had unearthed some of his exam papers from his years at Malton Grammar School (1959 - 66). He has kindly scanned them and sent them to me. I have posted them on the site, with an index on the Exams page of the documents section of the site. Coincidentally, Clive appears in the photo of Norton Boys School 1958, listed below! Front row, third from the right.
A gallery of Other School Groups around the Malton area is available on the site.
Norton Boys School 1958
Posted on 22 April 2026
I spotted this photo on Malton and Norton Memories in April 2018, posted by Larraine Williams. Richard Hall, who is in the photo, thinks it was something to do with dwarves for Mrs Keeney - notice the pipes and hats. Clive Duggleby agrees: From what I can remember, the play was about a village (perhaps of dwarves?) which decided to have a communal stewpot of soup. All villagers were invited to put something into the stewpot but, when finished the only thing in the stewpot was a solitary onion. It transpired that every villager save one had added a pinch of salt, since it was well known that you need salt to flavour soup - the only exception was the one (played by David Prest, I think) who put an onion in.
All names are provided, written on the back of the photo. I recognise a number of the boys' names who went on to Malton Grammar School.
All kind of other documents gallery of Other School Groups are available on the site.
Newspaper clippings 1957
Posted on 21 April 2026
In December 2025 Howard Campion posted two news clips on Malton and Norton Memories Facebook site, one of a group in a Christmas play at Malton Senior School 1957, the other of a prizegiving for Malton Grammar School, plus notes from the headmaster's speech.
An index to all newspaper clippings in the archive is available on the site.
Professor Richard Wilson
Posted on 21 April 2026
Back in March Tony Kirby emailed to tell me that former Grammar School pupil Richard Wilson had passed away. Richard was at school 1950 - 1957, and went on to the University of Leeds and then a career as a historian. I have put an obituary from the Norfolk Records Office in the Tributes section of the site.
Web access problems
Posted on 17 April 2026
Apologies for anyone who has been looking for updates in the last three months. Since the turn of the New Year, I have had problems with accessing the website to upload new material. This site is a subdomain of the main Malton School website, and as such I do not have direct control over the hosting of the site - the School has changed its hosting provider. I have been waiting for a resolution to be found - which I think is now active. I will be uploading new material from Jan - April 2026 in the next few days. Apologies if some of the links do not work immediately. There is quite a lot to get through and test.
Updated 21 April 2026
I think all the updates since January 2026 are now in place. In particular the restructured Biographies index and the Tributes index. These are now in alphabetical order, and all links to 18 pages of biographies, and 27 pages of tributes and obituaries are now working. They have also all been upgraded to the new responsive format, and improved thumbnail pictures have been implemented.
To complete the review of pages about people, I have also upgraded 45 pages of memories of the School, its staff and its students.
George Nicholson
Posted on 26 March 2026
I arranged a visit with the curator at York Art Gallery to view a portrait of George Nicholson, and two of his sketchbooks. He was a Malton artist in the 19th century, and the main connection to Malton School was his painting of the Old Grammar School, versions of which hang in St Mary's church in Old Malton, and in Malton School. York Art Gallery are in the process of digitising their archives, with the intention of making them available to all online. Many of his sketches are valuable records of architectural and landscape features in the 1800s. He is buried in Old Malton graveyard.
Bernadette Hoult's
French exercise book
Posted on 2 March 2026
Along with Maltonian magazines and a news clipping, Hugh Wolfson passed on Bernadette Hoult's French exercise book. Written some time in the early 1960s.
The Maltonian 118, July 1963
Posted on 2 March 2026
The last of the Maltonians sent by Howard Wolfson has been scanned, this time the edition from September 1963 (Number 118).
The Maltonian 121, September 1966
Posted on 27 February 2026
Another of the Maltonians sent by Howard Wolfson has been scanned, this time the edition from September 1969 (Number 121). >
The Maltonian 124, September 1969
Posted on 13 February 2026
Howard Wolfson sent me a number of Maltonians, a 1959 panoramic photo, and a news clipping from the Malton Gazette, which gives an obituary for Philip Taylor. They all belonged to his wife, who at Malton Grammar School was Bernadette Hoult, and he has passed them on to become part of the school archive. I have scanned The Maltonian Number 124, September 1969, and this is now available and included in the index to The Maltonian.
Philip Taylor
Posted on 16 February 2026
An obituary of Philip Taylor has been added - both a scan of the newspaper article from 22 October 1971, and a transcript of the article. This has been added to a biography provided by Mr Taylor's daughters, Rosemary and Gillian, in 2008.
As a result I have restructured the Biographies index and the Tributes index. These are now in alphabetical order, and all links to 18 pages of biographies, and 27 pages of tributes and obituaries are now working. They have also all been upgraded to the new responsive format.
To complete the review of pages about people, I have also upgraded 45 pages of memories of the School, its staff and its students.
Sports Day Boys' Javelin Record
Posted on 15 November 2025
Tim Ibbotson emailed me to comment on his long-standing Sports Day record for the Year 10 Boys Javelin: " It’s coming up 30 years now and it’s still there even with Oliver Lamb throwing further in year 9 than I did in year 10, this year was a bitter sweet check, as I was hoping he would achieve a clean sweep of all years. But still pleased I hold it. "
Tim now works in IT Security, having achieved a BSc Hons in Information Technology with Computing, (despite achieving a D in GCSE IT "due to laziness").
Always good to hear from former students, and good to know things like the Sports Records continue to be of interest.
1959 Northern Echo
Posted on 25 October 2025
Howard Campion sent in a newspaper clipping from the Northern Echo, November 1959. It has a photo of Elizabeth Bowman receiving her GCE certificate from Ian Mackinnon, at the first Speech Day held in the new Grammar School Hall. It also reports on a scheme to allow transfer of pupils between the County Modern and Grammar School, through extended use of the 13-plus exam, and on the new extension to the Old Grammar School buildings.
I have taken the opportunity to update the news clippings index page to the new website format.
Children In Need Update
Posted on 19 October 2025
With Children in Need approaching, it seemed appropriate to update the section relating to it on the website. I have added photos from 2008 and 2009 (though there weren't many taken in these years), and also updated the Children in Need index to the responsive format. There are photos from 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 on the site, with a couple more years to follow.
Comic Relief and Sport Relief Update
Posted on 13 October 2025
More work on the Comic Relief and Sports Relief pages, updating them from archive pages to the responsive format most of the site is now in. All the years that I have photos for are now updated: 1989, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. There is still work to do on the Children In Need pages, but they are available in the old archive format for now.
Charity Events
Posted on 1 October 2025
I have been updating the index page to a number of charity events held at the School over the years - Children in Need, Comic Relief, Sport Relief and sponsored walks. There is still a little more to do on the archive pages, but the index - with photos - is now available.
Art Exhibitions 2001 - 2025
Posted on 29 September 2025
I spotted this photo of this year's winners of the Emma Howard Memorial Art Prize on the main Malton School website, which prompted me to look back at other years. I had not updated the winners list since 2018, and the Art Prize page was in the old format. With thanks to Janet Burrows at the School for providing an updated list and a few photos, the Annual Art Exhibition page is now more up to date. I will try and find photos of the winners from 2015 - 2022. I have also refreshed two pages of pictures from the 2008 exhibition, giving a glimpse of the kind of work on show at these evenings.
Sports Day Photos 2011
Posted on 9 September 2025
Having just updated the 2025 Sports Day records, I thought it a good idea to add some more Sports Day photos, this time from 2011. A selection of 64 pictures of races, field events, officials and the crowd. An index to Sports Day photos since the 1930s is available.
Sports Day Results 2025
Posted on 3 September 2025
Gareth Edwards kindly sent me the 2025 Sports Day Results, which has allowed me to update the Sports Day Records page, and the overall Sports Day Results page. There were 5 records broken this year - Boys: Y8 800m:
Malton National School
Posted on 3 September 2025
A photo of Stan Grice with a group of children at Malton National School in the 1950s has been on the website since 2009, when it was loaned to me by Ann Petch, Stan's daughter. In 2025 it appeared on Malton and Norton Memories Facebook page, which resulted in a complete list of names being provided by Pom (Peter) Smithson. Diane Freer and Pom actually visited me at school in 2009 and gave me a list of names for the photo, but somehow it never got onto the website. All the names are now attached to the photo.
Lightwater Valley
Posted on 5 August 2025
Rewards Days were introduced by Rob Williams in 2007. Almost the whole school (those who qualified for a reward) were bussed out to either Lightwater Valley or Flamingoland for a day near the start of term in September. Over 100 photos of the 2011 Lightwater Valley trip have been posted on the site.
A64 Barton Hill
Posted on 5 August 2025
Another photo of the A64 under construction back in 1977-9, spotted on M&N Memories Facebook page. The Memories site also has a link to a short cine film of the A64 bypass construction available on YouTube.
Terry Dyson
Posted on 26 June 2025
Prompted by a number of photos of Terry Dyson, (Malton Grammar School 1946-52, Tottenham Hotspur 1955-1965) spotted on Malton and Norton Memories page recently, I have compiled a page with some photos and biographical notes in the archive, together with an extensive interview from the 1961 July Maltonian. One of the photos is the 1952 Malton team posted below on 25 February - have a look at a little more detail. There are many photos on the internet, but I cannot risk copying them to this site, as many are copyrighted.
About the Maltonians Website
Welcome to the third incarnation of the Maltonian Website. Work started on making it into a "responsive" website in March 2022, as well making it a cleaner, simpler site to browse and navigate. With over 800 pages to convert, this could take some time! The previous version was started in October 2013, and before that the first site appeared in 1999.
During the period of upgrading browsers will come across old pages, but hopefully the key index pages will all have been converted. It may be that some old, infrequently visited pages will remain in an archive-only format.
The site provides an archive for former students and staff, as well as advice on how to help the current students at Malton School, and a reference point to tell its story over so many years.
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Site Manager
The site was first created by Steve Fearnley, former deputy head at Malton School 1993-2012. He continues to develop and manage the site in his retirement, with a new mobile-friendly look being developed in 2022.
Photographs
The Maltonian Web aims to display all the photographs which are in the school's archive. These start in 1911 and go up to the present day. There is a policy of not including named individual photos of current students.
Documents
Many archive documents have already been converted to a web format. These appear on the site in that format, whilst many more have been scanned as pdf documents and included as a downloadable resource.
Make a bequest
The School has benefited from donations and bequests in the past, most notably from Alma Collier which allowed the creation of a new library, and more recently from Alex Joannidis (in 2014) and Sheila Pratt (in 2015). A number of commemorative prizes and trophies have been created. If you would like to make a bequest or a donation, please get in touch with myself or the headteacher about how you can help.
The Maltonian
The Maltonian was a school magazine published by Malton Grammar School each term, from 1917 until 1971. Most copies still survive in the school archive. The Maltonians website first appeared in 1999. It was created by Malton School's deputy head at the time, Steve Fearnley, and was intended to exploit the relatively new phenomenon of growing internet access to share memories of the School's past.
The old school website, created by Graham Magee, and the Maltonians site were suspended in 2011, when the School bought a commercially produced website.
The Maltonians Website
This third version seeks to continue the work started in 1999, acting as a point of contact and preserving records of Malton School, Malton Grammar School, Malton County Modern and Malton National School.
Contact information
E-mail and phone
- e-mail: stf@maltonschool.org
- Telephone: 01751 476005
- Mobile: 07881 209459
Mailing Address
- Steve Fearnley
- Garth End Cottage
- Roxby Road
- Thornton le Dale
- North Yorkshire
- YO18 7SX
- Malton School
- Middlecave Road
- Malton
- YO17 7NH
- (01653) 692828
- admin@maltonschool.org