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School Prospectus for 1930 - Contents Page

The School Prospectus for 1930 , written in the expectation that the Queens Road buildings would be ready in September, 1931. In fact, they were not occupied until a year later.
Page 1 of 15: contains the contents page.

Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet

Some Further Notes by 'Old Elizabethan'

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

Plank, Morton

Programme of the School Play, Adventure Story

Programme of the School Play, "Adventure Story" (about Alexander the Great) by Terence Rattigan, produced on 12, 13 & 14 March, 1970. It shows all the names of the actors who performed in the play. In addition, there is a list of all the scenes and their names as well as the crew who were in charge of certain sections of the play.

Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet

Spend your holiday at a farm camp!

Made using a school notebook. Illustrations have been taken from other sources and stuck into the book. Handwritten captions accompany the illustrations.
The book contains two narratives: "Spend your holiday at a farm camp" and "A Day At A Harvest Camp". The first is written in black ink and the second is written in blue ink.
The reference to Poker Works Unlimited on the cover is a reference to John Pearce, Maths master.

Not known

Cricket Team in front of Tudor Hall 1880 with handwritten caption

Handwritten caption: Of the signatories, H W Engleheart obtained the VC [Victoria Cross] in the Boer War; H W Bryant kept wicket as an amateur for Middlesex; and J Samuels captained the Past v Present XI on Founder's Day for many years, scoring over 1100 runs in the match, and also arranged for a cutting to be taken of the mulberry tree in the playground of the old buildings (said to be one of the original trees introduced by James I) and planted between the road and the lodge of the present [Queens Road] buildings, where it now grows.

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