Talk:Mayfield School (Portsmouth)

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I spotted a mistake on the James Callaghan PM article and corrected it. Following the link to Mayfield school I have removed the comment about former PM James Callaghan attending Mayfield. He was educated at Portsmouth Northern Secondary School as stated on the website of 10 downing street. He did not attend Portsmouth Northern Grammar School (Mayfield). Portsmouth Northern Secondary School is the City of Portsmouth Boys School and to be sure about his attending there, there is a wall monument to James Callaghan about him attending City Boys in the main auditorium.

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page127.asp LordHarris 15:24, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

LordHarris is correct in stating that James Callaghan was educated at Portsmouth Northern Secondary School but incorrect in stating that this is now the City of Portsmouth Boys School. The latter was set up in 1975 from the Technical High School and Hilsea Modern Boys School. Not only do numerous city archives show that the Northern Grammar School was the new title for the Northern Secondary Schools, the entrance to Mayfield School still has the old title "Northern Secondary Schools" above it, carved in stone! (with the Secondary deleted). If there is a plaque to this effect in the City of Portsmouth Boys School, it must either commememorate a separate period of James Callaghan's education, or be erroneous. It is interesting as the normal misattribution of Callaghan (and other Northern Grammar School old boys) is to Portsmouth Grammar School; this is the first time I have ever heard him misattributed to CPBS. I will raise the subject of the plaque with the CPBS directly.