Minutes for committee meeting to discuss the ceremony for re-opening of college dormitory. Includes invitations to ceremony.
Glass Plate Negative (107mm x 81mm). View across College Garden, showing the pathway, statues, benches and trees within the garden. The Abbey's Rose Window is visible in the background.
College Garden, looking north-west towards the Abbey. College is visible on the left side of the painting. Two gardeners are visible: one in the left foreground with a barrow and one in the centre with a roller. A woman and boy are to the right of the painting and the child has a hoop.
Harraden, Richard Bankes, 1778-1862One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'Memories 1921-24
(Known to us erroneously as ‘College Gardens’)
It was anomalous (to say the least) that this delectable adjunct to the School should have been debarred even to K.SS except on two days of the year (for the reason, see L.E. Tanner, p46) while (before the opening up of the vista between School and College) TBB never set eyes on it! The Garden was not then visible from Dormitory (windows being too high up) but a distant glimpse of the Canons disporting themselves there could be gained from a window up Saignes.
KSS were allowed into the Garden for a few blissful hours on Election Sunday and again next morning for Juniors’ Race, when Juniors ‘ran for their freedom’. This consisted of a handicap race twice round the Garden. A handsome money prize was awarded to the first three finishers (provided no doubt from Election ‘Cap’). (My luck to be pipped on the post by Binyon for 3rd place!). The disgusting custom of ‘Feeding’ in Hall before the Race was mercifully abolished by that wise Chaplain R.C. Fisher in my year (1921).'
Glass Plate Negatives (4¼” x 3¼”). [missing]