Search

Manchester High is very proud of its suffrage and Pankhurst connections.  Sylvia Pankhurst was a pupil from 1893 to 1898. Her two sisters, Christabel and Adela, were also pupils. During the renovatio…

A Life Remembered: Doris Angel Memorial Film. Ann Angel, MHSG class of 1977, talks to her mother, Doris Angel, née Loewenstein, about arriving as a young Jewish refugee from Germany at the end of 193…

At MHSG, we love to keep in touch with our former students and are looking forward to the Annual and Decades Reunion in September. The Old Girls’ Association was founded in September 1883 at a meetin…

We were thrilled to report in 2018 that an autograph book, created by pupils from Manchester High between 1916 and 1918, had been found in the bottom of a basket in a charity shop and given as a pres…

PE has always been important at MHSG. On Friday 3 May 1901 the School held its very first gym display at Dover Street. Girls marched into the gym to the accompaniment of music and did exercises inclu…

Alumnae who were here in the 1990s will remember the construction of our smart new reception area. They may also remember that the end of the top corridor and staircase were demolished and the only w…

Singing has always been popular at MHSG, but did you know that one of the most famous sopranos of the 20th century, Isobel Baillie, was a pupil here from 1908-1909? Isobel made her Halle debut in Nov…

Please click on the link below to read this edition of the Prep Bulletin. 16062023 Prep Bulletin 160623.pdf

Gertrude Powicke 1887 – 1919   Gertrude Powicke taught French and German at Manchester High School for Girls from 1911 to 1915. She played a key role in coordinating the MHSG war effort, making much-…

Catherine Corbett 1877 - 1960   Old girl Catherine Corbett was one of the first two women to graduate from Manchester University Medical School. She served as a doctor in a Scottish Women’s Hospital …

Did you know that MHSG had its own guide company from 1917-1971 and a cadet ranger company from 1928 until 1943? The school archive has some wonderful photographs of the 1933 summer camp at Hawkshead…

A wonderful photograph from a glass slide taken in 1905. This shows the girls being taught Art by Miss Jones