The Chronicle, Autumn 2018

5 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

Light was recently able to stream through the stained glass windows to the right of the picture for the first time in nearly 50 years following the demolition of the New Hall.

later in the term when, at Christmas, a production of A Christmas Carol was put on in Big School (above) mainly the efforts of the senior boys, and the first play at the School since 1914. Accompanied by the School Orchestra it was well received and the ticket proceeds of £25 (£1,350 today) went towards the School’s War Memorial Fund. Compared with the bunting and the general joyous mayhem that greeted the end of WW2, the celebrations in November 1918 were understandably muted. It would take the School several years to get back to any kind of normality; it was still a relatively small community of 158 pupils coming to terms with the loss of so many very young and well- remembered classmates.

The Sixth Form of 1917 picking fruit at a farm in Dorchester-on-Thames.