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Harrow Library's Chandos Album - 'When?… Who?'

Harrow have a Chandos Girls' Album in their vaults - but no knowledge of its history.  Can you suggest who may be featured - or a date for these un-captioned photos… ?

A group of adults on the school stage at an evening event.  Sat in the centre, wearing the spectacles, is the headmistress (Selby?) - the others are probably Governors (postulated by Irene Grimley)… and a bouquet of flowers resting on a pair of nattily shod legs.  A Speech Day perhaps?  Maybe the atire suggests a date?

Painstakingly posed groups of 5th form prefects:
A water-colour art class comprising four young ladies.
Six pupils at an embroidery class (could the girl with the pair of badges be Head Girl?).
Three girls at a millinery class.  Note the 'girdle'/sash being worn by the right-hand girl (about which Geraldine Charles writes [under 'Miscellany']).

One of the class photos (I can't remember which one) has a date of 1962 handwritten on its rear.

Harrow Civic-Centre Library
(Ms Ogilvie)

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1958

Boys' School Teachers, annotated, high resolution.

Allan Cox

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1968 - Girls' Class

Photo and Names List

Pamela Larner

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The Metalwork Shop - in the recesses of New Block's deepest dungeon… Wilcox (rear left) presides.
A clip saved from an education dept. magazine that Del read about 40 years ago.

Del Jones

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School Trips

March 1965, Educational Cruise to the Mediterranean on B & I Steam Navigation Company's 12,615 ton converted troop-carrier, M.S. Dunera.  The Harrow Schools' contingent included about 30 boys from Chandos.

The itinerary was: Gatwick, Genoa, Syracuse, Izmir, Piraeus, through the Corinth Canal to Corfu, Venice, Gatwick.

Excursions by foot were somewhat unconventional in that boys were required to form a cordon around clumps of girls (from other schools) to protect them from excited local youths - but perhaps it was the locals that needed the protection!

A montage of cruise pupils' passport photos.

Al Barclay

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On our first morning aboard, after having departed from Genoa, Italy, we wake-up to a cloud-wreathed Stromboli - for most of us our first sighting of a real volcano.

Colin Poyton

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At our first port-of-call, Syracuse, Sicily, this Rope maker's Grotto was on the itinerary.  The red-headed boy?  Les Bristow.

C.P.

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During our second stop, Izmir, Turkey we explored these famous ruins at Ephasus.

C.P.

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Next stop Piraeus, Greece - observing Athens from a parapet 'Up the Acropolis'.

C.P.

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Summer 1966 - Boys' School - Coach holiday to Switzerland
Messrs Webb and Jones saying their farewells to the staff of the Hotel Rossli at Alpnachstad near Lucerne, Switzerland.  Ah haa - the essential gentleman's suit.

The trip to Lucerne with Mr Webb was a blast.  Being a little more adventurous than most, I encouraged a few guys to investigate the local night-life.  Well, needless to say we had a really good time and consumed a little too much cheap wine and got back late.  He just smiled when we got turned-in by the hotel staff, and said that our hangover would be our punishment. - Steve Field ('68)

John Clayton

Current-Day

Tour Day - 1st November 2010.  The school was opened-up for past pupils to re-visit.
A Photobucket album of the day's activities.

C.P.

The ‘Roberts’ twins (originally from Westbere Drive) turn 60 - in style.
In February 2008 Marilyn (née Roberts) flew to the UK to join her sister, Glenys, and other family members to celebrate their 60th birthday together.  A few of their old pals from Chandos were amongst the hundred-or-so guests also celebrating the occasion at the Broadfields Country Club.

C.P.

Thistlecroft Tower January 2005.

C.P.

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Burnell Gardens Entrance January 2005 - Aficionados will appreciate the retention of the classic Crittall 'Hopper' windows (visible on the first floor).

C.P.

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Park Block Jan 2005.

C.P.

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The '54 Club Photo Album.

P. Poyton

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The Ladies Group
1995 - Founding Members
May 2011 - Re-union at Luton

July 2005 reunion picnic by the Chess at Sarratt.  From the left - John Hinton, Margaret Hinton, Gill Bailey, Steve Barker, Carol Bosworth, Liz Barker and Colin Poyton.  All, except Margaret and Liz, attended Chandos (in the early '60s).

P. Poyton

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