Dark Blue & Gold (Year 11-13) Copelands Doctors Guys Johnians Millers Baylis Eliot Franklin Hepworth Kingsley Forest School is a private day school in Walthamstow in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

The school occupies a large campus around its original Grade II listed Georgian and Victorian terraced buildings.

However, this did not deter the owner, Archibald du Boulay, and following a meeting at his house on 17 February 1834 it was decided to try again, and thus the idea of Forest Proprietary Grammar School was launched.

The owners of the new school were mainly local dignitaries, their President was William Taylor Copeland, and they recruited Rev.

However the new headmaster Mr J. F. Boyes was determined it should be saved, and he was able to stave off the school's closure during his time in charge (1844-1848).

[4] By the time Mr Boyes came into a fortune in 1848 and therefore moved on from Forest, it is clear his efforts had stabilised the school's position.

In 1859 the Sick Cottage (later the Senior Common Room) was built, followed by the first swimming pool in 1865 (it was replaced in 1877), the gymnasium in 1872, the enlarged chapel in 1875 and the Fives Court in 1879.

William Morris, a former private pupil of Frederick Guy, presented a banner to the school in 1879, still held in the dining hall.

In 1886, Frederick's son Thomas Edward Barlow "Ned" Guy took over as headmaster until in 1894 he left to be the parish priest at Fulford, in Yorkshire.

[3] Forest had an important role in the development and creation of association football, and the common at the front of the school may well be regarded as a "cradle of the game".

Football began at Forest in 1857 when Frederick Guy took over as headmaster; it was played on the common, at the front of the school.

Tradition records some great battles between Charles W. Alcock and F.J. Poole, in which the object was to barge the other player over the iron railings!

The Old Foresters F.C., founded in 1876, entered the F.A.Cup in 12 seasons (1877-1889), and reached the quarter-finals in 1882, losing 0-1 to Great Marlow at Slough in a replay after a 0-0 draw in the first meeting at The Oval.

He was a first-class sportsman and he continued the strong sporting culture at the school; one of the first things he did was set up the annual "Sylvestrians" Cricket Week.

[4] Edward L. Atkinson was taught at Forest in the 1890s, who went on to be the surgeon on Scott's last, fatal Antarctic Expedition, but had the good fortune to survive himself.

[4] The School Magazine reported first-hand accounts of a Zeppelin raid taking place over London, and another occasion of the destruction of an airship by fire.

98 Old Foresters were killed in the Great War, their names are recorded on the south wall of the Chapel.

The most significant event was in August 1944 when a flying-bomb scored a direct hit on the Junior School, which it destroyed along with the cricket pavilion, Grub Shop and Manor cottage.

It was named after and opened by Old Forester Basil Tudor Guy, Bishop of Gloucester who was grandson of F.B.