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ST EDWARD’S

1941

1949

In June Robert Mortimer (OSE), Bishop of Exeter, dedicated the WW2 Memorial Board for the fallen of WW2 in the side Chapel.

55 boys had an eight-hour course on tractor driving.

1942 24 acres of School fields on Lower One and Canal Fields were ploughed and sown with wheat. Every House had its own allotment, worked both before and after games. Over three years these plots yielded approximately five tons of potatoes and 3,000 cabbages.

Construction started on the new Piggeries.

1953

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At long last work began on the Memorial Library and Art Room Building behind Big School.

1954

Henry Kendall opened the Memorial Library and Art Room at his last Gaudy and retired at the end of the Summer Term. ‘The project nearer, one felt, to Kendall’s heart than any other’ (Hill). It was dedicated in the Chapel by the Bishop of Exeter.

Allotments 1942.

1945

School received its largest bequest ever, just under £2 million (today’s currency) from the will of OSE Edmund Brewer-Williams, which was used mainly to ‘redeem final debentures owed by the School’.This was supplemented a year later by a further £1.6m from the wills of two further OSE. Earlier in the war the widow of The Reverend A.T.C. Cowie, one of Simeon’s earliest

Warden Kendall opens Memorial Library in 1954.

Edmund Brewer-Williams at St Edward’s in 1885.

teachers and supporters from New Inn Hall Street days left the School a final sum and stamp collection amounting to another £850,000.

Memorial Library and Art Room 1954.

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