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On this page are the details of which editions of The Gazette, The School Magazine, The Ottershaw Weekly News and Acorn are available from our online libraries.

The Gazette

The Gazette Library holds all ever produced editions
Also we have editions 1-9  +11 of the early society newletters.

 

The Ottershaw Weekly News & Acorn

In the OWN and Acorn Library,  copies of OWN are arranged in batches by school year with all the copies for a particular year contained within a single PDF file.

We have to thank the SCC Archive for allowing us to scan their entire collection of OWN and also to Old Boys Roger Chesher, Peter White, Colin Blowers and the late Keith Douglas for letting us have access to their personal collections. Also the OSOBS archive has contributed many editions.

In May 2022 OSOBS member Robin Whyte  supplied all the remaining copies that we  did not already hold so now our library holds a complete set of every OWN ever produced. 

In 2024, former teacher Jonathan Huges supplied the final missing edition of Acorn thus complteing the set.

We are now only missing the short lived NOW (New Ottershaw Weekly)) from 1971 but due to the way they were produced it is highly unliley anycopies still exist in readable form

The School Magazine

1949
V2N1  V2N2

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Ottershaw Weekly News

1951
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

1951-52
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61

1952-53
62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98

1953-54
99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135

1954-55
136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 1692 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172

1955-56
173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 1884 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 2012 203 204 205 206 207 208 209

1956-57
210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 208 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246

1957-58
247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283

1958-59
284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320

1959-60
321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357
(Pages 1 and 2 missing from 346)

1960-61
358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394

1961-62
395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432

1962-63
433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469

1963-64
470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506

1964-65
507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543

1965-66
544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580

1966-67
581 582 584 585 586 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616
When produced, Number 605 was misnumberd as 607 but in our libray the number has been corrected so not to be confused with the correct 607

1967-68
617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641  642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653

1968-69
654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 689 690

1969-70
691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725

1970-71
726 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 Christmas 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759

1971
760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 771 772
No. 770 is not actually missing - the number was never used and the series jumped from 769 to 771;  and No. 768 is wrongly numbered as 767

It seems OWN may have finished at this point and a home grown publication - NOW (The New Ottershaw Weekly) briefly filled the gap before the move to Acorn.
NOW was produced in colour on the school's Banda, but the logistics proved impossible for it to be viable.
The chances of any of those publications surviving are next to nil, Acorn then took over for 1972.

ACORN
Acorn1   Acorn2   Acorn3  Acorn4   Acorn5   Acorn6  Acorn7  

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