Item 001 - Some Further Notes by 'Old Elizabethan'

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Some Further Notes by 'Old Elizabethan'

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  • memories recorded: 1929 (Creation)
  • period remembered: 1870s (Creation)

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(? - around 1930)

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(1897 - 1985)

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Headmaster 1930 - 1961

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One of three notebooks in which Morton Plank (the 'Old Elizabethan' of the title) wrote down his recollections of life at the school in the 1970s. The location of the other two notebooks are not known.

Note by Ernest Harold Jenkins at end of booklet: C L Tripp seems to have got the writer of these books to jot down his recollections when he (Tripp) was writing his History of the School. Tripp turned them over to a dear ineffectual old master named Judson, who then ran (or, really, failed to run) the Library. I took that over from him as soon as I decently could, & he thus gave me these books, saying he had had them from Tripp & they 'weren't much worth looking at.' So I put them among other rather pointless old records, like Class Lists, being then busy with the running of the school, & read them only a little before retiring. This to my regret, for they give quite a good picture of the school & of school habits & atmosphere in the 1870s, & I might have made use of them on Founders Day & similar occasions. I think the writer was a certain Morton Plank, who earned his living as a private coach & tutor in Barnet, & died round about 1930, much liked & respected. The song to which he keeps referring is, in fact, one of the Harrow songs. It was used as a school song when I came (probably in violation of copyright) but nobody really was interested in it: as the writer says, it had no dignity or significance, school songs as a habit, were on the wane, this was really not ours, & after a genuine effort to keep it going for some few years, we let it drop, about 1934. These recollections in these three notebooks seem worth keeping & may be really useful at our 400th anniversary celebrations. EHJ

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