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Grant's House Water Ledger
GB 2014 WS-02-HOU-03-03-02 · Item · 1925 - 1926
Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

This ledger was begun in 1925 by C. E. W. Lewis (G 1920-1925) and was kept by successive Heads of House Water in which they recorded details of rowing events and achievements, those who received the house colours and anything they thought interesting or noteworthy. There are details of events in 1924 at the beginning and some entries include comments on the crews. At the end of the volume is a list of previous Heads of House Water from 1919, as well as lists of which Houses won various rowing events from c. 1922. An insert at the front of the book states that an Old Grantite, R. P. Adler (G 1922-1926), passed the book onto Grant's House.

Grant's [Untitled]
GB 2014 WS-02-POS-01-29 · Item · c.1911
Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

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!'