Darrell Buttery News Today

He was a tough opponent of insensitive development including the mammoth Coppergate 2 scheme which was successfully stopped

Thank you for your thoughtful obituary of my old English teacher at Nunthorpe Grammar School, Darrell Buttery (Always kind … August 1).

DARRELL Buttery, who has died at aged 81, was many things: inspirational teacher, historian, champion of York’s heritage – and wryly witty…

A long-planned centenary reunion for staff and students of Nunthorpe Grammar School, which has been delayed for a year because of Covid, will finally go ahead at the weekend. A dinner will be held at the Merchant Adventurers Hall on Friday - and Millthorpe School, which now occupies the former Nunthorpe buildings, is throwing open its doors to Nunthorpe old boys and staff on Saturday afternoon. The reunion has been organised by former staff and pupils, among them Darrell Buttery, who taug...

Darrell Buttery, a former Nunthorpe Grammar School teacher, with a wry smile for a mis-spelled school mug. Picture Frank Dwyer PEOPLE sometimes say the oddest things when they think there’s no-one to overhear. Like the elderly woman who attended a Friends of York Festival event in 1973. She was dressed in an outrageous feathered hat and her great grandmothers clothes - and was having trouble with her old-fashioned underwear. Unfazed, she whipped it off, and handed it to Lady Feversham wi...