Talk:St Nicholas Grammar School

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Future of this article[edit]

There is no doubt that, as with pretty well all Grammar Schools, this one was notable. However, since it closed before the establishment of Google archives sourcing this would be an uphill battle. The suggested way forward is to move the page to Haydon School, to which it was renamed, and cover both old and new schools in the one article. The site for Haydon School can be found here, and its notability is apparent from the awards on the main page. TerriersFan 03:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry there is no wish by former pupils of St Nicholas to subsume their highly successful alma mater to its successor. St Nicholas by dint of its spectacular academic and sporting acheivements owes nothing to its better funded and more politically acceptable successor.

There is an active history being written by a former master, and citations, references and sources will be forthcoming. There is a surprising amount of documentation including a lot of the school magazines retained by FP's

The former Headmaster has a family website and there is much source material there too.

St Nicholas indeed lives on through its Old Boys rugby establishment, a well supported and quite successful institution.

Recently a 50th anniversary dinner was held with over 300 former pupils in attendence.

St Nicholas had a short life and was a small school, yet the achievements of its alumni and its academic and sporting achievements beggar that of larger schools. stevejohnson 3 October 2007 (UTC)

You say of St. Nick's that "it became a Comprehensive School and was renamed Haydon School". This is not strictly accurate: St. Mary's Grammar School for Girls, which was next door, and St. Nicholas were merged to form Haydon.Edincat 14:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm - two years later, there's not much sign of these references from reliable, third-party sources.....86.27.79.11 (talk) 21:19, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What were the other the other larger and older established public schools in the area?[edit]

"...the school held its own against the larger and older established public schools in the area" With reference to the quote "St Nicholas is one of the finest grammar schools in North West Middlesex", it's worth stopping to consider how many grammar schools there actually were in North West Middlesex. Quite a specific area, isn't it?Edincat (talk) 00:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Location[edit]

I've put the {{coord}} tag on the Haydon playing fields, someone more familiar with the site may be able to place it more accurately. It's still fairly obvious on the satellite photos where the two schools were, but was Nicks the north or south one? 86.27.79.11 (talk) 21:19, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

North. Emeraude (talk) 17:47, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

St. Nicholas notability[edit]

Quite confused as to why St. Nicholas Grammar is considered notable enough to warrant an article on Wikipedia, which indeed it is, but St. Mary's Grammar isn't notable enough. They were next to each other and it was the headmaster of St. Mary's who founded Haydon School and became the headmaster, which he stayed as until the late nineties. Surely if someone was to add quite a bit more information to a new page it would be adequate enough to stay on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Movingmillion (talk • contribs) 12:04, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]