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This is the first edition of the 'Grantite Gazette'. It gives the names of leavers, general news within the House, details of the House concert and sporting achievements of the House.

28 Images from Malta

An educational lecture about the role of the monks and dogs in mountain search and rescue operations at the St Bernard Pass in the Alps between Italy and Switzerland. The narrative is an account of a group of tourists who get into difficulty as a result of an avalanche. A St Bernard dog discovers a child and carries him back to the hostel on its back. Another dog leads the monks to where a woman is buried in the snow. Mother and child are reunited. The complete set of digitised images of these slides can be seen online at http://www.slides.uni-trier.de/set/index.php?id=3005013 [accessed 05/10/2015]

Khaki Scout shirt belonging to A.J.N.W. Prag, adorned with patches and leather lanyard. Accompanied by a letter from A.J.N.W. Prag and a key to the patches on the shirt. Prag's scouting success noted in the Queen's Scholars' Chronicle: 'A.J.N.W. Prag has collected (by various means) almost as may badges as he has initials. His labours have been well rewarded with the dizzy heights of a Patrol-leadership.'

Red cassock and red cincture. Manufactured by Watts & Co. Small holes, some staining. Black hood with red lining and trim. Lining and trim considerably stained. Fraying to front of neck band.

During the renovation of Liddell’s, 19 Dean’s Yard, this pair of shoes was discovered beneath floor boards close to a fireplace on the second floor. They have recently returned from conservation at the Museum of London. The Curator suggests that they are late nineteenth century, fashionable shoes, probably bought in the second hand market and then repaired on the sole, with iron horseshoe heel reinforcements fitted.

Northampton Museum coordinates the survey of ‘concealed shoes’ and their index of finds lists well over a thousand examples. Of course there are a number of shoe superstitions: they are symbols of authority (Old Testament); they are linked with fertility (tied on the back of wedding cars); they are associated with good luck (witness holiday souvenirs in the shape of a shoe). Statistically the finds in buildings are often associated with chimneys or fireplaces. They cannot have been a casual dumping: shoes were an expensive item of clothing. Stories suggest that removal of shoes from a house brings bad luck. There appears to be some association with the devil. Some earlier types of shoes were so narrow and pointed (some were actually called the Devil’s Horns) that it would be easy to believe that the devil was pinching you, a suggestion today’s women may well understand. This may reinforce the idea that the devil can be lured into a boot/shoe. There was a fourteenth century belief that Sir John Schorne, rector of North Marston, Buckinghamshire, conjured the devil into a boot. His shrine was a place of pilgrimage until the Reformation, and several pubs in the area commemorate him. The superstition may well have grown that the evil in a house is collected and contained in the shoe, and if it is removed evil and chaos can roam abroad...