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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> There was little segregation of juniors from seniors until 1916 and not until 1930 were they given exclusive use of a landing area. This text is therefore quite comprehensive until the First World War but after the Second World War very little is mentioned of the seniors beyond our sharing the same headmaster Mr Unmack from 1937 until 1965. The story stops at 1982 partly because it is difficult to find former pupils under the age of 50 with time to contribute and partly because nothing later is yet old- fashioned. I would hope that whomsoever will one day gather Junior School memories to take this project further will find more pupils than I born after 1960 with time to write and compare their experiences to these. One problem is that alumni might not realise something was new just months before they joined the school and therefore think it has been mentioned by an older alumnus. This is why there is no recollection of such topics as the Rosslyn Park VII teams that Mr Trafford introduced and accommo- dated in Barnes in the 1970s so await the next volume! As my writings veer away from the seniors (gradually from 1916 and completely from 1952) there is plenty in the archive for a chronicler of the senior school to tackle and there are still some fine nuggets left to be selected from the 1864-78 Tuckwell part of the archive.