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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]

Handwritten termly reports recording progress made in different subjects, 1939-1944.

The Town Boy Ledgers are a near continuous record of life at Westminster School stretching from 1815-1939. The Ledgers were kept by the pupil elected 'Head of the Town Boys' (Princeps Oppidanus) and were written exclusively for the benefit of future generations of pupils. Until the mid-20th Century, when the term fell into disuse, pupils at the school who were not Scholars were known as 'Town Boys'.

Orders of service from the annual Under School Festival of Lessons and Carols held at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey.