Fryer House, nestled at the top of the Park, is one of the most loved buildings on site; generations of Old Leightonians have passed through its wood-floored corridors. The building has had a very mixed range of uses since the family of Joseph Bigland Fryer gifted it to Leighton Park. A talented student, including one of the first winners of the JBH Speech Competition, Joseph had a bright future ahead, when he was tragically killed in the Alps. His devastated family opened the building in his memory on 3rd March 1923, initially the school’s “hospice” or sanatorium.
In 1962 Fryer became a boarding house for the first time, a home for the youngest boys (the girls didn’t arrive until the 1970s!), in 1993 becoming the co-educational junior boarding house that we know and love today.
John Allinson, the School Archivist has created a mini-history of Fryer which includes a profile of Joseph himself.
Read here
You can see the celebrations from the day and there’s also a Flickr album with a selection of Fryer photos over the years too.
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