Glass Plate Negative (107mm x 81mm). Four people entering into a small thatched roof building, carrying many items on their backs and wearing headscarves.
Wellington & Ward, Elstree, Herts.Lists first name, surname, date of birth, house and form entered into.
Glass Plate Negative (107mm x 81mm). The north-eastern corner of Dean's Yard, showing the entrance to the cloisters.
One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'Did ever such a vast building have such a small door as its only entrance? Strangely enough, tho’ College was the most exclusive of all Houses, numbers of T.B.B in Under School used this door regularly, as ‘Prayer Room’ just inside (abode of Second Elections) was used as an emergency Class Room for French etc.
Outside may be seen the Monos Stone, even in those days worn way by the seats of generations of Junior KSS sitting against it from 3:25-3:30 pm performing the duty of Watch (shouting “White’s ‘Ming!!!” when the HM was sighted).
Just inside this Door was kept (in a glass case) what was always solemnly referred to as “The Great Key of College”. College in pre-Blitz days had of course two floors only. There were no Wren’s on the ground floor (including my two cousins in 1950-6), so College was (apart from the anomaly above) exclusively the domain of K.SS.
I entered this Door as a Junior in Sept. 1920, knowing full well what a fearsome ordeal awaited me. Mercifully the systematic bullying of Juniors was mitigated a few days later.'
Glass Plate Negatives (4¼” x 3¼”). original box no. "V.C. 2"