The website for pupils of Trinity High School, Northampton

This website is mainly about the period between 1946 and 1974, but has some material from the later era.

It was produced by Ian Dow, a pupil at the school from 1958 to 1965. It is a history of the old school and the memories of the pupils who attended. On the right is Ian in 1963; on the left, many years later.

The site was originally set up merely to provide publicity for the Trinity High School reunion for the 40th anniversary of the Class of ’63 in October 2003. It had been intended to run for just six months in 2003, but at the end of the year so many people asked for it to become permanent that it was set up as a long-term website. It closed as a live website on 14th December 2021, after it became too difficult to maintain due to its old technology.

And that's where I came in... Before Ian closed the site he asked if anyone would be interested in taking the site on. It was a great resource that he'd spent years building and I thought it was a shame to lose it, so I decided to have a look. Ian kindly gave me a copy of the code and resources and while I did a lot of the groundwork, it fell beside the wayside before I could get it fully back up and running. I always had the idea to return to it though, and with the advent of AI these things suddenly became a lot quicker and easier to do!

So with more than a little help from Co-Pilot and Claude I've got the site back up and running again using up to date technology. In terms of content and structure, everything is exactly as Ian left it, it's all just a bit shinier than it was.

For the benefit of those who were at the school while I was (1989-1994), there's a lot of stuff in the After 1974 section.
Enjoy!

Now, I just need to remember what I've done with the copies of Billboard^* I still have knocking around somewhere so I can include them in the site...

Neil Jarrett

* Billboard was the school newspaper we produced in the sixth form that had to be recalled as it was apparently libelous and brought the school into distrupute...