Former Wymondham College student, Louis Gidney, has died aged 81 - Credit: SUPPLIED BY FAMILY A toymaker, inventor and one of the first pupils to attend Wymondham College back in the 1950s has died aged 81. Louis John Gidney arrived at the school when it first opened in September 1951, and he remained there for the next seven years when he graduated in the summer of 1958. The school was built on the site of a Second World War American station hospital and the facility’s 40 Nissen huts were used as the classrooms and dormitories. It was a time “much-loved” by Mr Gidney when he attended.