St Edward's Rhubarb Issue 5

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Contribute to the Archives! We are seeking the following photographs. If you have access to any photographs shown on this list, please get in touch, and if possible send me a good scan (300 dpi +) to chris.nathan@icloud.com 1st XV Rugby Football 1872-1875, 1878-1880, 1914, 1915, 1921, 1940, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2013 1st XI Cricket 1873, 1874, 1916, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2006 1st IV Rowing (Boys) 1907, 1909, 1918, 1922-1923, 1926, 1927, 1932- 1954, 1956 -1972, 1974-1980, 1982, 1984, 1987-1996, 1998, 1999, 2001-2014 1st VIII Rowing (Boys) 1888-1891, 1893-1901, 1905, 1906,11909, 1911-1924, 1926-1931, 1956, 1969, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007 1st IV Rowing (Girls) 1986, 1991, 1997- 1999, 2001-2004, 2006, 2007, 2012-2014 1st VIII Rowing (Girls) 1985- 1991, 1993- 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001-2011 1st XI Hockey (Boys) 1930–1938, 1940- 1950, 1968, 1970-1972, 1999, 2002-2004, 2007 1st XI Hockey (Girls) 1986-1988, 1996, 1997, 2002-2004, 2006, 2013 Cowell’s 1893, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1902-1904, 1906-1908, 1910- 1918, 1926, 1927, 1929-1932, 1934-1936, 1939-1942, 1945-1952, 1958-1974, 1988, 1990-2007, 2010 Sing’s 1893, 1897-1899, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1908 -1912, 1914, 1916 - 1918, 1925-1948, 1956, 1958 - 1960, 1962–1964, 1975, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1999-2001, 2004-2006, 2009, 2010 Field House 1893-1895, 1897, 1899, 1901-1905, 1910-1913, 1915-1918, 1926-1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1949, 1951-1953, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1969-1973, 1988, 1999-2010 Macnamara’s 1893, 1894, 1897-1919, 1921, 1929, 1930, 1964, 1971, 1977, 1997-2010 Apsley 1897, 1899-1906, 1908-1912, 1914, 1916-1918, 1921, 1925, 1932, 1933, 1935-1952, 1955, 1957-1967, 1988, 1989, 1993, 2000-2005 Tilly’s 1920, 1921, 1925-1930, 1937-1942, 1964-1967, 1973, 1988, 1989, 1993, 2000-1010 Segar’s 1925, 1930-1932, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1944, 1946-1949, 1963-1973, 1993, 2002, 2004, 2006-2010 Kendall 2000-2007, 2009, 2010 Oakthorpe 1997-2008, 2010 Corfe 1981, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000-2010 Avenue 2001-2010 Jubilee Copies of all Jubilee’s House photos are already held by the Archives.

Jack Tate, well known to many older OSE, was a member of the Common Room from 1937-1969 and on his retirement took up the full-time position as the school Archivist. In this role he added another 19 years to his School service until his death in 1988. Jack’s time in the job was perhaps the most important in our having the collection we have today - he was as diligent and painstaking as Cowell and in his time he established the basic system of record keeping and boxing protocols that are still used today. His own bequest of over 100 magnetic tapes of school life 1971-1988 has proven absolutely invaluable. Since Jack’s death the school archives have had many different guardians and different locations as well! At various times they have been housed in Big School, the Old Library, the original indoor swimming bath, the old changing rooms (‘Chaggers’) and in one of the old ‘temporary’ huts behind Cowell’s. Today they reside within the Lemon Tree site acquired by the School for future development in 2010. Amongst the various recent part-time archivists have been teachers, a spouse of a teacher and temporary outside staff. The collection today is still growing and at time of writing is contained in some 650 boxes together with a great deal of indexed ephemera including large pictures and paintings. We also have the original Honours

Boards from the walls of the old Big School as well as many of the sporting shields that once adorned the Dining Hall, a whole suit of armour (probably dating back to one of Cowell’s Christmas plays), numerous cups and pewter mugs originally given out for sporting prowess and so on. My own official involvement has been on a regular basis since 2008, following five years of ad-hoc assistance and writing various articles and books about the School’s history. The work is as diverse as it is rewarding with the Jubilee year in 2013 and the anniversary of the Great War in 2014 being especially memorable. The Archives have also been used to help produce Nicola Hunter’s St Edward’s: 150 Years , the 2013 edition of The Roll of St Edward’s School , co-edited with the late Derek Roe (E, 1950- 1956), and the School History by Malcolm Oxley, as well as my own publications and those of others related to the School. The close collaboration with the Development Office has proven indispensable. The interest in the School past is always families of those who attended the School, researchers, authors, all kinds of specific official and unofficial societies, OSE, existing staff and pupils, other schools and university archivists from all over the world. strong and most often from the most expected quarters - family historians,

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