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'
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GB 2014 WS-02-POS-01-04
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c.1911
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GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-002/69
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1950s
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GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-005/54
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2010
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GB 2014 WS-01-BUS-PRS/3/19
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1494
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lacks a1, a4 repaired; ruled in red, scattered marginalia
Hilton, Walter, d. 1396
GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-005/19
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1990s
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GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-005/20
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1990s
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GB 2014 WS-04-TRO-005/010
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1673
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Inscribed 'Hoc poculum amoris ergo dederunt, Herbertus Salway, Carolus Lancelotus Shadwell, Henricus Lewis Thompson, MDCCCLXVI on the back 'Praefecto et Alumnis Collegii Sancti Petri apud Westmonasteriensis', cut-card motif around lower section, Not loaded. No cover. This piece may have been converted from a ewer at the time of presentation.
Bodenick, Jacob, active 17th Century
GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-012/23
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1990s
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GB 2014 WS-02-POS-01-53
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c.1911
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GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-001/52
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Jul 1679
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Issued for the King's Scholars involved in manslaughter in 1679. Black and red ink on vellum; bearing the Royal Seal