Bletchley Grammar School was opened in 1956 and was built in what were part of the grounds of Bletchley Park. It was a bilateral school catering for grammar and technical education.
In June 1956 several new teachers joined the Grammar School including as senior mistress, Miss F. Marrison, previously senior mistress at Aylesbury Grammar School, would teach history; whilst as arts mistress Miss K. Fryer, the daughter of Councillor E. Fryer, came from a teaching position at Northampton. Mr. J. Shakeshaft, who lived at Wolverton and taught at the William Ellis School in London, would be science master and Mr. R. Willis, a teacher at Wolverton Grammar School, became the English and history master. Mr. F. Allen, teaching at Stony Stratford Secondary Modern and locally renowned as a meteorologist, would be geography master and Mr. Pilcher, on his return to Bletchley from studying at Loughborough College, would be games master. Vice captain of Leicester University Rugby XV, Mr. J. Sanderson was to be the new French master and Mr. G. Shire, presently teaching in London, would be the maths master.
New staff were now being appointed for the Grammar School and so too was Mr. W. Storey as caretaker, who with his wife had previously been caretaker at a secondary modern school in Clare, Suffolk, for 5½ years. Before then he had been a member of the production team at the de Havilland aero engine works at Edgware.
The new tower block at the Grammar School was opened on December 3rd 1962. There now being some 530 pupils, as opposed to 151 when the school first opened.
Unfortunately the school was not to last, closing in 1973 with most of its students transferring to Wilton Secondary School which was to change its name to Lord Grey. The buildings were taken over and became Bletchley/Milton Keynes College. The tower block was demolished in 2001 and a new building now stands in its place.
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