The Cambridgeshire High School for Boys was founded as the Cambridge and County School for Boys in
Cambridge, England, in 1900.
History
It was later the Cambridge and County High School for Boys, and then finally the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. It had around 600 boys in 1970, with 150 in the sixth form. It was transformed into
Hills Road Sixth Form College in the 1974 reorganisation of education in
Cambridgeshire.
Martin Amis (author) records in his autobiography "Experience" that he attended the school while his father
Kingsley Amis and his mother Hilary were living off
Madingley Road.
Roger 'Syd' Barrett of the rock band
Pink Floyd attended the school. Barrett is remembered for the unprecedented way in which he resisted the school's strict code of conduct.
Mark Tout, the British
bobsleigher, was a member of the team which finished fifth at the
Winter Olympics of 1994. In the team was second in the World
Bobsleigh Championships. He subsequently made regular appearances as a team member on
A Question of Sport.
Roger Waters of
Pink Floyd. The album
The Wall allegedly draws heavily upon Waters' experience of the school.
The Happiest Days of Our Lives, recalls the sadism of certain teachers, and
Another Brick in the Wall part 2, which includes the famous lyrics "We don't need no education". In 2017, the 'Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains' exhibition at the
Victoria & Albert Museum in London exhibited the punishment book for Cambridgeshire High School for Boys open at a caning for Roger Waters, along with the cane itself.