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Plan of Park High/Chandos - from the back of a 'handout' at the 1999 reunion.

165KB

Words to the school (Girls') song

54KB

Marion Hughes

Letter, May 1945, from the Headmaster, Mr Besant, to Harold Dummer inviting him to a ceremony celebrating the success of the Book Recovery Brigade … and some associated badges earned by Harold.

149KB

Harold Dummer

"In my days at Chandos Girls, (1943), we used to get the teachers and prefects to sign our autograph books."

Kathleen Goshawk ('45)

1948 Girls' School Magazine
(Scanned as 'black or white' - but, to mitigate pixelation artefacts, the half-tone photograph has been blurred to a true grey-scale.)
Page pairs: Contents, 0-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21 (“I can't remember writing about The Schooner, although I was 'ship mad' in those days.  I used to love drawing pictures of galleons.  I guess it must have been because the relatives on my mother's side were all sailors.” - Sheila Monincx née Bush), 22-23, 24-25, 26-27, 28-29, 30-31, 32-33, 34-35, 36-37 an 'Arbutus'? - it's a shrub with a strawberry-like fruit that grows around the Mediterranean coast.

c. 90KB/page-pair

Harrow Civic-Centre Library

1951 - A log from St Mary's Bay Holiday Camp
Front cover, party members and programme.

c. 40KB each

Roy Fabian ('54)

1956 - Front Cover of Mathematics work-book.

52KB

Geoffrey Calvert

1961 - photo of St Mary's Bay hut accommodation, inside cover of journal, party members and a "behave yourself" letter - complete with a few rust stains from the folder in which it has been kept - from Head, Kenneth Whiting.

c. 130KB (hut photo), and 50KB the rest

Malcolm Hall ('59-'65)

1959 - Boys' School Report

74KB

Richard Tann

1961 - Boys' School Report.
"Rural Science"?  That was apparently a euphemism for basic horticulture and agriculture - how to look after an allotment or keep chickens and farm animals - training for pupils who may work as farm labourers.  Its appearance in a suburban school syllabus was probably a legacy of war-time shortages when families needed to rely on domestically-produced food to supplement their diet.

77KB

C.P. ('59-'65)

1962 - Girls' School 2nd year Report
Front cover (brown paper and label - remember them?), report

Marion Hughes ('60-'65)

1964 - Boys' School Report - and comments on an unique achievement.

45KB

Malcolm Hall

1964/5 - Speech Day (Girls') Programme.
Cover; pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

c.35KB each

Marion Hughes

Educational Cruises
Both Chandos schools enthusiastically embraced the concept of Educational Cruises during the 1960s and early '70s.

Cruise vessels were: MS Dunera, Nevasa, SS Uganda and Devonia - all owned by the 'British and India Steam Navigation Co.'  (Latterly assimilated into P&O.)

1968 - Girls' trip on the Nevasa.  Party members and the Itinerary.

45KB (pdf)

Jane Sturman (née Gates)

1970 - Girls' trip on the Uganda.  Party members and the Itinerary.

45KB (pdf)

Jane Sturman

Mini-memoirs
This section comprises inspiring, mini life-stories of a few ex-pupils, their recollections of their neighbourhood, their school-days, what influenced them and how they got to where they are now. 

1943 - Kathleen Goshawk's Story

12KB

Kathleen Leffew
née Goshawk

1945-50 - Sheila Bush's Story

20KB (plus photos)

Sheila Monincx

1947-50 - Chris Harrington's Story

6KB

Chris Harrington

1959-65 - Malcolm Hall's Story

18KB (plus photos)

Malcolm Hall

1960-65 - Marion's Story

4KB

Marion Hughes

1962-68 - Steve Field's Story

10KB

Steve Field

1970s - John Willoughby Remembers

8KB

John Willoughby

1952-56 - Douglas's Story

a link to a genealogy blog site

Douglas Graham Sheffield