In response to naming faces on the 1960 whole school photo and in supplying photos from 1964, Ivan Jones (FN 60-64) writes:

“There was no school photo in 1964. However as there were a large number of boys leaving that year, it was decided to do a house photo. I have attached the one for Foundation. 

While I'm at it I thought I would add a couple of others from the summer of 1964.

The picture of the men in conversation are governors. The man on the right is Mawson.

The picture on the beach is of interest. I don't think it has been mentioned before. So here goes. I hope I remember the facts. David Lord can confirm.

Every afternoon between two and four p.m. boys had to do some form of recognised sporting activity. In the winter and spring terms everyone was assigned to a rugby team based on age and ability. Not all teams were scheduled to play every day. So on these off days you had to find something else, squash, tennis, swimming (if organised). Failing that you had to do a cross country run. Each house set its own course each day. In the summer it was cricket instead of rugby. However, unlike rugby, if you were in the sixth form you could opt out of cricket and play beach hockey instead. I was never into cricket, playing or watching. Interesting that you couldn't opt out of rugby though. Opting out was only available to sixth formers and hockey could only be played when the tide was out. I took this picture on one of those occasions. There were few if any rules. The goal posts were clothes and touch was the cliffs on one side and the sea on the other. The sticks were walking sticks with no flat surface and there was no minimum or maximum number of players. You just divided the number of people who turned up into two teams.

The other picture is of the swim team at practice, lead by Gordon Stanion our Geography teacher. He was an interesting character. When he left school he won a place at OXCAM but he got called up for WW2. After the war he had to wait a year or so before he could go to university. Today we would call it a gap year. So he decided to go to Australia. He took a job delivering the mail. His route was Alice Springs to Darwin on a motorbike. Who would have thought? What an adventure!”

Photos may be seen by clicking here.

 

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