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We were delighted to welcome journalist Caron Kemp to our 2006 reunion. Caron wrote
a full-
Please reserve the date in your diary.
Do you have any informal
photographs which you or a friend took during your time at Tolly?
We want to display photos which illustrate the transition from single-
We also want personal accounts of the effects of the segregation rules.
Please click on this link to find out how to help us.
The Old Tollingtonians Society (OTS) welcomes former pupils and teachers of the Tollington Schools. The OTS has been arranging annual events for at least 100 years, probably since 1890. The school may have closed 40 years ago, but the Tolly tradition lives on in the Society and its 800 contact members
Reunion 2009
Saturday 3rd October
2007 marked the 40th anniversary of the closure of Tollington School, so we made the reunion a special event. OTs from far & wide assembled in the Fortismere South Wing building in the largest number recorded in recent years
A copy of the Summer 1916 “The Tollingtonian” was found in a New Zealand attic and
donated to the Society by the grandchildren of the OT who took it with him when he
emigrated. It’s a treasure-
Six classes to a classroom, taking the roof off to add another storey (in term time!), 200+ boys taught in what was once a house, E A Butler recalls this and the transition to modern Tollington in Muswell Hill in his 1915 reminiscences
Terry Robson has launched a sister website featuring mainly the 1959 intake. It also has some items which should be interesting to all OTs, including a partially named 1964 roll photo of the whole school. Find it on the link below, then hit your ‘Back’ button (maybe a few times) to return to this page
The OT Golf Society was reformed in the 1980s and always welcomes new members at all levels of skill. Follow this link for the 2008 fixtures schedule…