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The Refectory Wall
The Refectory Wall
GB 2014 WS-02-POS-01-23 · Item · c.1911
Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'I think we called this corner (perhaps erroneously) “Ashburnham Green”. Unlike that of Green itself, its grass was sacrosanct!
None of us had any idea or appreciation of its architectural and historical associations (for which see L.E. Tanner, pp 24-25)
It did seem almost sacrilege to use one end of it for a Miniature Shooting Range - but where else could space be found? (On my return from India in 1945, I found School itself being used for this purpose by some persons, during the ‘Exile’.)
Westminster did not excel at Shooting. On one occasion we were bottom of all the School Teams competing in the Ashburton Shield - despite weekly visits to Bisley. However (a fact overlooked in School Records) G.C. Cobbold (RR) and G.W. Teed (A.HH) won the Cadets’ Trophy at Bisley in (I think) 1920.'

[It is likely 'G.C. Cobbold' refers to Reynold Chevallier Cobbold, one of two Cobbold brothers at Westminster at the time, but the only one in Rigaud's.]
'The Rigaudite Review'
GB 2014 WS-02-HOU-04-04-01 · File · Jan 1919 - 1968
Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

These files contain edtions of the Rigaud's house magazine, 'The Rigaudite Review'. The magazine was compiled by the boys within the House and could be bought for a small price. Sometimes copies were sent out to old Rigaudites. It contained editorials, articles about events going on in the House, details of sporting events and achievements and short stories. The later editions also contain adverts. Some magazines have inserts.