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This booklet is a second edition of 'Grants and the Old Grantite Club' which was originally produced in 1959 and gives a short history of Grant's House and the Old Grantite Club. It contains almost the same history printed in the previous edition but has a more detailed account of Grant's House in the nineteenth century which includes two first-hand accounts of daily life at Grant's House and the views of the matron, Joan Fenton. There are also details of developments since 1959 and the addition of more photographs of Grant's House. Updated lists of Grant's Housemasters, Heads of House and Presidents of the Old Grantite Club are also included. \r\n\r\nInserted within the booklet is a leaflet for the Old Grantite 75th Jubilee on September 28th 2001.

One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'1918-1924
Said my Substance (Tony Allpress) to me on my first day, “Pity they haven’y got a P.C. of Rigaud’s like that”. (It wd. not have made so good a picture as this severe but symmetrical structure). It says much for the rigid ‘isolationist’ House system of my time that I only once set foot inside GG in all my six years- and that very briefly for some very special purpose on the last day of Term.
R. Tanner (“The Buck”) was House Master of GG for my first three terms, Major D.P. Shaw for the remainder (1919 till his death from war-wounds in 1924). Grant’s and Rigaud’s were consistently on good terms (having much in common), but about 1922-4 GG developed into a decidedly ‘tough’ House, with a particular antipathy to K.SS (which was reciprocated). This nearly resulted in an ugly scene during Lamprobatics in 1923!'

Watercolour painting marked "Grants Yard, Westminster School by H. R. Robertson" Back: Label "Up Grant's H.R. Robertson 1 Stedes Studios Haverstock Hill NW Dec. 1906"

Exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1905. Titled and signed verso.

Fragments of a greaze pancake mounted on a white paper doily in a glass fronted wooden frame.

One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'Memories 1918-1924
Gym was regarded as an honourable ‘occupat’ but attracted only a limited number of enthusiasts. Like the majority, I only saw the inside of Gym, on the occasion of annual inter-House contests. I have memories of D.B. (‘Spud’) Murphy, K.S., competing in (and I think retaining) the Championship only a few weeks after a very nearly fatal bout of pneumonia.
I also remember all boarders (and I think day-boys too) having to turn up in Gym for another purpose, turn by turn, during Lent 1920. The new HM (H.C.W.) had decreed that all the School should be weighed and measured (in the nude) in order to check-up on our avowedly poor physique in post-War years. We also had to blow three times down a tube into a machine which purported to register our “Vital Capacity”. I failed in this abjectly, and was accorded a life-span of about 25 years! Fortunately none of us took this gadget too seriously.'

Silver-plate trophy with Mappin and Webb hallmark and registration number. Prince's Plate

Inscription: Half Mile with Hurdles'. Not loaded. No cover.

Half-pint Pewter Tankard. Hallmark: V.R. 512. One handle. No inscription.