Photos and articles about Brighton and Hove in the time of coronavirus. See our collection and add your own!

Golden Jubilee Photograph

Everybody is invited to see how many faces can be named from this classic of 1959.

If you recognise yourself or anyone else, please post below.

Click on an image to open a larger version.

From the personal collection of Thomas Paul
From the personal collection of Thomas Paul
From the personal collection of Thomas Paul
From the personal collection of Thomas Paul

Comments about this page

  • I think I can see my cousin Ian Chapman in the 3rd photo, on the far left of the row behind the front row.

    By Jane Knapp (30/08/2018)
  • Gosh ! How wonderfully small the school looks!

    Picture 1, the teacher wearing his gown may be Mr. Langridge the music   teacher who played the hand pumped organ in the chapel and the piano in the new Refectory(1964).

    Picture 3, the teacher at the end of the row in a white open neck shirt and cravat May be PTI Mr. Cobb( former army DI). 

    When I joined in 1964 my headmaster was Bro. Elwyn, and part of the influx of new De La Salle Brothers!

    By Damien Wan (30/08/2018)
  • I am 3rd from left in the second row back from the front. I left in 1960 for Mayfield College. Brothers Nathaniel and Bead (onomatopoeia), transferred to Mayfield when the Xaverian College in Brighton was taken over by the De La Salle Order.

    By Shaun Donnelly (08/11/2018)
  • Photo 1 Bros. Finbar, Benedict (American), Cajetan, Nathaniel( Head ; American), ?, Bede, ? Mr Langridge( music), Geoff Lintott( art & English) Mr Davey( geography & running)
    Photo 3 – 2nd from Rt Bob Stent ? – 5th from Rt Knight?, 6th from Rt Stephen Butler ( me)
    Bro Benedict had boney fingers and would pinch grip your cheek ( for fun?) . In the 1st year, he named me Samuel after the author. I was hence known as Sam- I didn’t like it.

    By Stephen Butler (05/07/2020)
  • Hello

    I have a blog of Xaverian College, Manchester where I attended in the early sixties. Interested to see Brother Finbar on the left (real name William Manion) who taught me French probably in 1960. We stayed one night at Mayfield on the way to Paris on a school trip.
    My blog is https://manchesterxaverian.rpmail.uk

    Regards,

    Robert Cummings.

    By Robert Cummings (26/02/2021)
  • Bro Nathuil, Bro Bead. I moved to the Xaverian college at Mayfield the following year.

    By John Hawes (18/03/2021)
  • Chris Godfrey left third row of cropped photo. |I don’t recognise anyone else.

    By Christopher Richard Godfrey (29/03/2022)
  • Second picture down, second row from the front and seventh from the left is me. All I can say is did I really look like that?
    I remember many of the faces and the Brothers and Masters and their nicknames. The Headmaster Brother Nathaniel or Bro. Nat as he would have it. Another was Brother Bede, also known as Basher for his habit of whacking the blackboard with a cricket stump to make a point. Amazing to see in the picture our geography teacher Mr Davies (Taff), who went on to achieve fame for winning the Ben Nevis race, perhaps the most gruelling race in the British Isles.

    By Trevor Freeman (21/05/2022)
  • I used to pump the organ in the 1950s that’s about as far as my musical talents went! Although I had left long before the above photos were taken I do remember the Brother’s names. I have yet to find a photo with me in it. Didn’t they all look smart with their jackets and ties.

    By Tim Sargeant (22/05/2022)
  • Further to my above posting:
    Can anyone tell me what make the organ in the chapel was please? Thanks. TCS.

    By Tim Sargeant (03/06/2022)
  • It was my job one afternoon to pump the organ when Mr Langridge was playing and whilst pumping one usually sat on a pile of hymn books. I got distracted by Paul Callaway (I think, but apologies if wrong)) and others who were probably sniggering whilst singing and as there was insufficient air in the organ Mr langridge suddenly stopped playing ,got up and clouted me round the head with a missal. My fellow pupils were in hysterics after that. I can still raise a laugh when I mention this to anyone.

    By Paul Drake (11/09/2022)
  • My late father, Calvin James, attended Xaverian College in the 50’s. I think he may have left by the time the above photo was taken, but I wondered if anybody remembered him at school?

    By Dan James (11/01/2023)

Add a comment about this page

Your email address will not be published.