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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Spine cracked due to over opening. Softcover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Whitgift School Croydon like most other schools of ancient foundation has experienced periods of obscurity as well as of success. One hundred and twenty years ago when it was recon- structed after years of oblivion so little of its earlier existence was known that the School was generally regarded as a com- pletely new venture. F. H. G. Percy an Old Whitgiftian a former master at the School and since his retirement from teaching the School’s archivist has been able however to reconstruct the story of the School in considerable detail. After many years of research in ancient and more recent records his History of Whitgift School was published in 1976 and the present book is a revised and much expanded edition of that work. Mr Percy has continued to gather information from an increasingly wide range of sources and has thus been able to include much new material relating to the School from its earliest days onwards as well as giving a full account of Whitgift in the 1970s and 1980s to bring the history up to date. The excellence of the text has been further enhanced by the addition of almost 200 illustrations in which portraits prints plans photographs and printed material [of various kinds are reproduced often in full colour. (MP)