School Magazines, documentation & articles
This page features a set of school magazines, from 1913 to 1975, held in the JGTrust Alumni archive, a selection of concert and school show programmes, a copy of the school song and other documents. They are scanned in pdf format and can be downloaded. The alumni team are very anxious to locate copies of school magazines from 1976 onwards that we can add to this list. If you have any school magazines, concert programmes, related documents that you would be willing to donate, lend (for scan and return) or send digitially we would be very pleased to receive them. The magazines are a fascinating insight into school life at James Gillespie’s over a 60-year period and make very interesting reading. We will also be delighted to received your comments on, and your personal recollections of, the school magazines and your thoughts on the website. The school pupil magazine ‘The Spark’ has, since 2013, been published on the JGHS school website and can be viewed online.
1913 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1914 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1915 Gillespie’s School Magazine
School magazines were not published in 1916, 1917 & 1918
1919 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1920 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1921 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1922 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1923 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1924 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1925 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1926 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1927 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1928 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1929 Gillespie’s School Magazine
1930 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1931 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1932 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1933 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1934 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1935 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1935-36 Certificate of Merit
1936 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1937 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1938 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1939 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1940 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1940 GHS Prizegiving
1941 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1942 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1943 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1943 Closing Concert
1944 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1944 Closing Concert
1945 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1945 Closing Concert
1945 Junior Secondary Certificate
1946 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1947 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1948 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1949 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1950 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1951 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1952 Gillespie’s High School Magazine
1953 JGHS School Magazine
1954 JGHS School Magazine
1955 JGHS School Magazine
1956 JGHS School Magazine
1957 JGHS School Magazine
1958 JGHS School Magazine
1959 JGHS School Magazine
1960 JGHS School Magazine
1961 JGHS School Magazine
1962 JGHS School Magazine
1963 JGHS School Magazine
1964 JGHS School Magazine
1965 JGHS School Magazine
1965 JGHS Concert and prizegiving (from Margaret Runnicles)
1966 JGHS School Magazine
1967 JGHS School Magazine
1967-68 JGHS Session information
1967-70 JGHS Music Society Syllabuses (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1969-70 JGHS Science Association (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1968 JGHS School Magazine
1969 JGHS School Magazine
1970 JGHS Commemoration Day
1970 JGHS School Magazine
1970 JGHS Prize-giving Concert
1971 JGHS School Magazine
1971 ‘The Boyfriend’ programme
1971-72 JGHS Session information
1972 JGHS School Magazine
1972-73 JGHS Session information
1973 ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ programme
1973 JGHS School Magazine
1974 JGHS School Magazine (from Sheila Capewell)
1975 JGHS School Magazine
1978 Head Teacher’s Report
2010 JGHS Conservation Plan
2012 JGHS Carol Concert
2014 JGHS Christmas Concert
2018 Founders Day
2021-22 JGHS Handbook
