Chris Snuggs: " For me the Bailey family personified class in the best sense. I knew Mr. Bailey well as a kind, competent and innovative Headmaster under whom the school continued to develop and excel. His wife was hugely supportive, and in 1965 taught the Lower VIth ballroom-dancing in the gym. His daughter Angela lived on the premises and attended Ipswich High School, seen generally as the creme de la creme of local girls' schools - and which of course eventually took over Woolverstone Hall.

GHB had a brilliant career and was a worthy successor to Smitherman, though at the time there was a rumour that Leslie Johnson was disappointed not to have been offered the position. He, too, would have been an excellent Head, and is one to whom WHS owed a huge amount."