Old Burians' Association

Former Students of King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds

where nowWhere are they now?

We’ve started adding stories here that have appeared in the “Old Burian” Magazine. So far, we have added those that appeared in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Magazines, but we plan to delve back further to bring you more in due course. Click on a name to read their story (arranged in reverse alphabetical order of surnames).  

Where are YOU now?

We’d love to know what you’ve been doing since leaving the school, and so would your friends and classmates. Send us YOUR story!

Where are they now?

I attended Loughborough Colleges/University 1973-1977 studying P.E. & Geography (Cert.Ed and B.Ed Jt. Honours). Appointed in 1977 at Stowmarket...

Rob Leadam Dirom Andrews (formerly Berwyn-Jones) – I was at KEGS as Boarder/School House student in the early 1960s. After passing my “O” levels and...

I entered the world on 29th September, 1940 as the Battle of Britain was moving towards its close. My father was a career airman who rose to...

Robert (now known as Bob) Baker is still lucky enough, after one spell of bowel cancer and one replacement hip, to be enjoying work at the age of...

We are sad to report that Tony passed away in March, 2020.A tribute by Tony’s friend Ivor Murrell can be found in the “Farewells”...

After leaving KEGS and joining Post Office Telephones I went on to hold a range of senior roles in the Telecommunications industry for BT, including...

After KEGS I entered employment with the erstwhile West Suffolk County Council as a trainee quantity surveyor. Six years and two jobs later I left...

After leaving KEGS in 1966 I became an Articled Clerk to a firm of Solicitors in Sudbury. In those days the “apprenticeship” was for five years, but...

Peter taught at Petroc (North Devon College) for many years and has been a long time lecturer for the Open University. He has also served in the...

I repeated my first year due to performance and demographic squeeze in 1965. This was at a time when it was the student’s responsibility to learn,...

I left KEGS in 1963 after five years as a boarder. I was lucky enough to gain a place at the London School of Economics and spent four happy years...

I was a boarder at the school from Form 2 to Form 7 and completed my time at KEGS in 1961, when Bob Elliott was still headmaster and then went to...

Having left KEGS in 1953 I joined the local West Suffolk Weights and Measures Department in Bury St Edmunds. National Service crept up on me and...

I joined KEGS in 1961, where Bob immediately kept me down a year as I had been sunning myself on the shores of Libya for the previous two years....

I can honestly say I enjoyed the rigours as a boarder at KEGS. My subsequent career in the RAF as a Supply officer took me, amongst other places, to...

I started work shortly after leaving school as a clerk with a firm of solicitors in Ipswich and stayed with them for about 4 years, when I left to...

After school I took an external London BSc degree in maths and physics at Wolverhampton and Staffordshire College of Technology which is now...

David Fuller BSc, BTh, PhD left school at age 16, with a modest list of mediocre GCE ‘O’ level passes, and was accepted for employment as an...

Having left KEGS in 1977 I went on to train as a Trading Standards Officer with Suffolk County Council. Upon qualifying I moved to Hertfordshire...

‘Full Circle’ In September 1961 I joined the ranks of KEGS from St. Albans Grammar School as my father was moving the engineering firm he worked...

Despite a disappointing time at university, I built a successful 30-year career in operations management for Bayer UK and Baxter Healthcare. Seeking...

Having taken 2 years out after leaving school teaching English and Latin in a private school in Suffolk, I then went on to University, first doing a...

L-R Neil Richards, Richard Cooke, James HinchleyI left KEGS in the summer of 1983 and spent much of my working life in the manufacturing industries...

I departed KEGS with 3 ‘A’ levels and started work in the Bury Hospital, Path Lab, in July 1969. I completed a Clinical Chemistry HNC in July 1971...

When I left KES I completed degrees at Oxford University and Imperial College London in Medicine and I am now working as a doctor in South East...

After I left KEGS I worked as an apprentice trainee planner in West Suffolk planning department for several years. In those days most planners got...

I went up to the Grammar School in 1959 from the little village primary school in Whepstead. I was the only boy from the village school to pass the...

After an enjoyable misspent youth and chequered career I returned to full time education in 1982 obtaining a degree in Computer Science from Swansea...

I left KEGS at 16 years old with an undistinguished academic or sporting record and armed only with a clutch of ‘O’ levels, had no idea of a career....

I had a career in textiles as a dyeing and finishing technician, firstly in UK then in New Zealand, emigrating in 1973 with my wife Anna. We lived...

Son of Sgt. Stanley (“Pony”) Moore who was drill sergeant for the Cadet Corps) After leaving school to join a local estate agents, I then became a...

I left KEGS in 1960, aged 16, because I wanted to get into the adult world. I found myself a five-year engineering apprenticeship with British Sugar...

Those of you who knew me between 1959 and 1964 will guess that I am am fairly ancient now, as you yourselves will have grown a little older. If I...

It is some 50 years since I left KEGS. After a year at teacher training college (not for me) and some time spent in retail, including selling fruit...

I was in the first year transitioning from the old Grammar school site. I left at the end of my 3rd year as my family was moving out of the area. I...

Great days at KEGS that I will not forget ever – infamous biology classes, fantastic geography field trips with Mr Reed and what seemed very exotic...

At school, I just wanted to go “into business”, to get a “good job” that “paid well”. After finishing my undergraduate and my Masters degrees I did...

For me the KEGS boarding house, like those of many other similar institutions, promoted some very negative behaviour – relations between pupils...

I started work immediately upon leaving at W Vinten Ltd., on the Western Trading Estate, in their Accounts Dept., moved to Barber-Greene England...

I was anointed Head Boy by Bob. I went up to Edinburgh Medical School, qualified in medicine in 1974, and married Helen Campbell in 1975. I did 2...

I was a boarder, school prefect, Yorkist House Captain, and CQMS in the CCF. I gained hockey, football and cricket colours, and I was school cricket...

Having attended KEGS/KEUS I graduated from Kingston Polytechnic (now University) in 1979. After a PGCE at Bath University I worked as a teacher in...

The OBA magazine, containing many ‘Where are they now?’ stories, arrived in my email inbox at an auspicious time. Two major changes had recently...

This is a rare tale. Probably few people have risen above 80% disablement to practice in Harley Street. Maybe fewer people with prognoses of early...

In September 1972, having recently left KEGS, a fresh-faced young man boarded a train for his first full time job. I had joined Littlewoods as a...

I attended KEGS from 1964 until 1971. Living in Lakenheath, the sixteen mile journey took an hour in a clunker of an old double decker bus that was...

That I was Head Boy in my last year helped me towards an army commission when I signed on for what then was two years compulsory military service....

I left KEGS in 1987 to pursue a career as a chef, working at The Angel Hotel, and so began the career of travelling around and learning my trade. To...

After leaving London University with a Physics Degree, I worked as a research scientist at Harwell. Our team was developing the use of radioactive...

Our Membership and 250 Club Secretary. I didn’t get the A level results I wanted to get to college for teacher training so ended up doing Business...