School Prospectus and fees...

I've uncovered an original prospectus from 1958, and reproduce it here! There are also two more photos, and I can just identify two boys - Orton and Graham, so I reckon they were taken about 1957!

Also, you'll notice that the title page shows GB's name as Headmaster, and this is pasted over the previous partnership he had with Mr Bassett!

An additional eye-opener is the term fee of £85. This means that there was an annual income of around £19,000 from around seventy-five boys which doesn't seem much considering there was a staff complement of around fifteen or so, and we were all fed and taught for that! There were also quite a lot of repairs needed on the building when I joined. I can also remember seeing large numbers painted in red in alcoves around the place. I think someone said that they marked some sort of muster stations from when the house was used during the war!

Prep school life...

The original pictures!

Simon Tuite's re-discovered photos...

Simon has at last got up into his roof, and found these gems! Funnily enough, in pic 2, my home is somewhere on the far horizon...

Superb memories, Simon! Any more?

1. Me at the swimming pool (either doing a Winston Churchill or a John Wayne impression!)

2. Mr Geoghegan admiring my diving

3. W.A.S. Quekett (‘Beak’) near the top pond

4. A.M. Scott, with the Colts cricket pitch in the background

5. R.H.J.V. Kyrke by the pool

6. The top pond iced over

7. The passageway over to the stable block. (Taken from the sick bay where I languished for about a week with an eye patch after getting a cricket ball in the eye.)

8. Hydneye in the snow, looking from the front of the building up the west drive