A SCHOOL'S collection of silverware is to be given a new lease of life after it was retrieved from the cellars of a town's museum by an 'old boys' society.

Committee members of the Old Theocsbrians Society - former students of Tewkesbury Grammar School - agreed to place the collection of school trophies for display in Tewkesbury Museum after comprehensive education was established in 1972.

"The trophies, awarded for sporting and other achievements, never really saw the light of day at the museum, and although museum curator Maggie Thornton looked after them in storage, a lack of display space meant they gathered dust over many years," said society president David Haines

Now Gary Watson, head teacher at the present Tewkesbury School, who last year was a guest at the Old Theocsbrians annual dinner, has agreed to award some of the trophies to present-day school winners, as well as to display the whole collection in a cabinet at the school.

The cleaned and polished collection will be presented to Tewkesbury School at a ceremony in the afternoon before old boys gather for the Old Theocsbrian Society's annual dinner at Gupshill Manor, Tewkesbury, on Saturday, September 26.