My mother (Nancy Bates, nee Hawkesford) was part of the Lewisham Prendergast school evacuated to TGGS in 1939. She was billeted with her older sister Peggy in a house in Deakin Leas with an elderly couple who luckily treated them extremely well - unlike the experiene of some of their friends! Mum remembers standing on the top hockey pitch watching the Battle of Britain dogfights happen right overhead (until they were ushered into the airraid shelter by the teachers!) She said the two schools attended quite separately and rarely mixed as they tried to "share" the school space. Mum left school in 1942 and spent the rest of the war with her family back in Charlton as a firewatcher.

My older sister Gill and I then attended TGGS - her from 1973 to 1980 and me from 1975 to 1982. Fond memories of athletics and hockey fixtures, school plays, singing and general mucking about.

More recently my son Jack attended sixth form at TGS (2014-2016), setting up the first TGS boys football team.

I feel very lucky to have attended such a special school.