Before DHSB was founded the original site was used as a naval hospital and surgery.
Stoke Damerel (aka Devonport) Military hospital in Plymouth,England was completed in 1797. It was built for the British army on the north side of Stonehouse creek, to match the Royal navy hospital on the south side. The workforce was made up of Napoleonic prisoners of war. The creek was later filled in during the 1960s to become Victoria Park, The Stone house Sharks Junior Rugby Team's grounds and The playing fields of DHSB.
The hospital was used by the army for 148 years, until the end of World war II in 1945. At this time DHSB returned from wartime evacuation and took over the buildings.
Before the hospital became Devonport High School for Boys part of it was Tamar High School. Both schools were approached by a central driveway from Paradise Road, with Devonport High to the left and Tamar High to the right. Tamar's motto was "The best is yet to be"; Tamar was a school strong in sport and admitted girls for the first time in 1973. Tamar closed after the 1988–89 academic year and was absorbed into Devonport High School, which also acquired the property. The admission of female sixth-formers from Tamar High to Devonport Boys' sixth form was the first time female students had been admitted to the previously male-only Devonport High.
How the school came to be.
The school was founded by Alonzo Rider on Albert Road, Devonport, in January 1896 to meet the needs of boys in Plymouth and district seeking a career in the Navy, as engineers and civil servants.
In 1906, the Devonport Borough Council took over the school and over the next thirty years it continued to teach boys who came from the city or in by train from the Tamar Valley and Cornwall. Old Boys went on to careers both locally and nationally – and especially in the MoD. In 1939 the school was evacuated to Penzance because of World War II and in 1945 returned to the present site, the former Stoke Military Hospital on Paradise Road, which had been built in 1797. A book by former student and teacher Henry Whitfield called A Torch in Flame, chronicles the history of the school from its founding to the death of headmaster Dr Cresswell in 1974. Since 1904, there has also been an annual school magazine made by pupils with the purpose of keeping students, parents and Old Boys informed about developments and information concerning the school.
Stoke Damerel (aka Devonport) Military hospital in Plymouth,England was completed in 1797. It was built for the British army on the north side of Stonehouse creek, to match the Royal navy hospital on the south side. The workforce was made up of Napoleonic prisoners of war. The creek was later filled in during the 1960s to become Victoria Park, The Stone house Sharks Junior Rugby Team's grounds and The playing fields of DHSB.
The hospital was used by the army for 148 years, until the end of World war II in 1945. At this time DHSB returned from wartime evacuation and took over the buildings.
Before the hospital became Devonport High School for Boys part of it was Tamar High School. Both schools were approached by a central driveway from Paradise Road, with Devonport High to the left and Tamar High to the right. Tamar's motto was "The best is yet to be"; Tamar was a school strong in sport and admitted girls for the first time in 1973. Tamar closed after the 1988–89 academic year and was absorbed into Devonport High School, which also acquired the property. The admission of female sixth-formers from Tamar High to Devonport Boys' sixth form was the first time female students had been admitted to the previously male-only Devonport High.
How the school came to be.
The school was founded by Alonzo Rider on Albert Road, Devonport, in January 1896 to meet the needs of boys in Plymouth and district seeking a career in the Navy, as engineers and civil servants.
In 1906, the Devonport Borough Council took over the school and over the next thirty years it continued to teach boys who came from the city or in by train from the Tamar Valley and Cornwall. Old Boys went on to careers both locally and nationally – and especially in the MoD. In 1939 the school was evacuated to Penzance because of World War II and in 1945 returned to the present site, the former Stoke Military Hospital on Paradise Road, which had been built in 1797. A book by former student and teacher Henry Whitfield called A Torch in Flame, chronicles the history of the school from its founding to the death of headmaster Dr Cresswell in 1974. Since 1904, there has also been an annual school magazine made by pupils with the purpose of keeping students, parents and Old Boys informed about developments and information concerning the school.