Old boys embrace digital technology

The site created for the Ermysted’s Grammar Schools Old Boys Society features memories and stories of life at the Skipton school through the years.

It will also feature an obituaries list and details of famous former pupils.

Old Boys profiled include Slumdog Millionaire screenplay writer Simon Beaufoy who attended the school from 1980 to 1983, footballer Rick Holden, who attended from 1976 to 1983, and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Iain Macleod, who was a pupil in 1922. Former pupils of Ermysted’s are being encouraged to contribute to the site with articles, memories or photographs.

Headteacher Graham Hamilton, who is also president of the Ermysted’s Old Boys Society, said: “Since its inception over 100 years ago, the society has survived changes not only in the school itself but dramatic alterations in society at large.

“Therefore embracing the new technologies of the digital age is a natural, fitting development for the society. Ermysted’s boys have been brought up to adapt, to respond to change, to survive in the face of adversity so using the website should not prove a challenge.”

The website has been built by Embsay-based marketing consultant Charlotte Fox.