DEPUTY head girl of a Marlow grammar school drove her grandfather to attend the first of a series of reunions on Saturday over 60 years since he left the very same school.

Kallie Townsend, who studies at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, accompanied her grandfather Ken as the two attended the get together, which featured three other Old Borlasians from the 1940s.

Ken, who left the West Street grammar school 1950, was joined by 84 alumni from the middle of last century, with the oldest having taken his final exams in 1942.

Ken said “It was a fantastic afternoon and I actually sat in my regular morning seat in the Chapel as House Captain of the Britons.

“It was quite incredible that four members of the 1949/50 first fifteen Rugby team were in attendance at the reunion.

“When I left 64 years ago who could have imagined that one of my Grand-daughters Kallie, now Deputy Head Girl, would have driven me to this event.”

Founded in 1642, Borlase has seen thousands of pupils pass through its gates and walk through its iconic Cloisters Lawn.

The school boasts successful entrepreneur Michael Acton-Smith and jazz legend Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson among its notable alumni, as well as a plethora of university professors and politicians.

Current pupils and prefects joined their older colleagues to hear and share stories from over the decades.

They included John Manly, who brought along his Bristol 403 car he bought after lusting after the very same model owned by a former teacher when he made the boys conduct a project on the luxury motor in the 50s.

Celia Blakeway-Phillips, Development Director at the school said: “We are thrilled with how the day went. Hopefully this will be the start of many more opportunities for our Old Borlasians to get together.

"There was a great atmosphere within school. Even one Old Borlasian who left Borlase in 1948 was hoping to get on a plane from Canada to attend.

“I hope that the word will spread further about the opportunities that we are giving our Old Borlasian community.”