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Looking back on the foundation of the school.

Next year we celebrate the 450th Anniversary of the founding of Pate's. We look back to reflections on the 400th Anniversary, written in 1974 by Bill Neve, the then Director of Music at CGS.
3 Mar 2023
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Dr Vaughan-Williams, Mr Neve and Mr Dodge, at the Big Classical, Cheltenham College April 1956.
Dr Vaughan-Williams, Mr Neve and Mr Dodge, at the Big Classical, Cheltenham College April 1956.

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