Cyril Markham came to donate his father George Benson Markham's items - two old school photos, certificates and two copies of the Castorian Magazine - and to view the school that had been home to his father up to leaving in 1934.
Cyril, who visited with his wife Jan, said his father 'wasn't a real keen sportsman or anything like that but he did write articles'.
Cyril grew up in Cabourne in the house that both his father and grandfather had grown up in, and left in 1963 to go to New Zealand, followed by his mother and father in 1966 after the lease on their farm ran out.
Cyril's father had wanted to own his own farm, which he achieved on arrival in New Zealand.
The Markham family is one of the oldest families in the area, having lived at Grasby 200 years before they came to Cabourne; 200 years before that they lived at Eastbourne and 200 years before that they lived at Keelby!
Headmaster Roger Hale was fascinated by the couple's donations and said he would display them in the old hall, which would have existed at the time when George was at the school.