Alumni

The OC Mitre is an annual production and contains news about the Old Chigwellian community. It is distributed to everyone on our database for whom we hold current contact details. We cannot produce an interesting and informative magazine without your help. Please send in details of your achievements, degree results, new careers, marriages, births, deaths, reunions, or any articles etc. Other OC like to hear what their contemporaries have been up to and that in turn will inspire them to contact us with their news.

If you would like to contribute to the OC Mitre, please email the Department of Philanthropy.

The story is a fascinating account of Chigwell School from its modest start in 1629 to the distinguished modern institution it is today.

This book will entertain and absorb pupils and staff, past and present and others connected with the school and its community.

152 pages of 280mm X 210mm, about 120 illustrations, library quality hardbook binding.

Price £ 15.00 (excluding postage)

A reprint of a fascinating and detailed description of what Chigwell School was like on the eve of the First World War, written (in English) by a German teacher, Hermann Sommermeier, and published in Germany in 1914. Sommermeier taught at Chigwell in 1913 and died fighting for Germany in the First World War. His poignant story, which probably provided the inspiration for part of James Hilton’s ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’, is related in a meticulously-researched introduction by Nicholas Dixon (OC).

52 pages of 250mm X 200mm, six original illustrations, booklet

Price £ 5.00 (excluding postage).