One copy annotated on reverse as follows, by R.S. Chalk:
'Memories 1918-24 R.S.C
School- one of the three great losses in the Blitz.
Vastly impressive, tho’ by comparison with its present day counterpart, sombre, dusty and dark. (Yet HCW once lamented the Victorian ‘vandalism’ which enlarged all the medieval windows save one!)
Used for Assembly, lectures, Orations, Concerts, O.T.C. Parades (if wet), Physical Drill (‘Phys Hell’), Exams (as in this picture) and, above all, Latin Prayers.
Latin Prayers each day were a real joy- I never once heard criticism. All joined in singing in Elizabethan Latin. (I remember once (about 1920) three Arab Sheikhs attended these Prayers, and much impressed). The Masters knelt in the middle gangway on ‘pancake’ kneelers thrown (sic) out to them.
In the top foreground (then as now) may be seen the Pancake Bar. I was present in my second Term (Lent 1919) at the most famous Greaze of all- witnessed by King George V, Queen Mary, Prince of Wales and Prince Albert- won by D.L Moonan, K.S'
Programme Booklet for Westminster School Scholar's Recital, Friday 8th September 2017, 1:10pm at St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey.
Indentures containing the name, age, paternity, town and county of origin of boys admitted into College, along with the names of boys admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge and Christ Church, Oxford. Signed by the Dean of Westminster, Master of Trinity and Dean of Christ Church. 1 indenture per election, roughly 1 each year.
Glass Plate Negative (107mm x 81mm). Four men and two women, three seated three standing. Two men are wearing mortarboards, all are in traditional dress.
Wellington & Ward, Elstree, Herts.