1940
School premises requisitioned in August by the Ministry of Health as a Hospital.
In Autumn Term the School moved to the Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry. The Leys Fortnightly continues to be printed in Cambridge during the School’s exile but with fewer pages due to paper shortages.
From The Leys Fortnightly Vol. 64, No.1111, 9 February 1940, p. 91. Performed in the December pantomime ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ written by D.W. Hughes (staff), A.T. Pepper and J.M.C. Pinkham (pupils). Balgarnie came out of retirement to teach again at Pitlochry during the war.
Sir Henry Dale OL appointed President of the Royal Society; Prof J H Clapham OL appointed President of The British Academy.
The film ‘The Leys Goes North’ is first mentioned in The Leys Fortnightly, shown to parents after the concert at Speech Day weekend.