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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.

Rugby 1st XV 1941-42

Back row: B Edwards, S Hall, J Moyes, E Tarbox, T Pay, R Cooper, C King, P Walpole
Front row: B Richards, D Powell, F Stitt, D McN Wilson (captain), P Morimer, G Hanson

Photograph of cricketers in front of the new school hall

This 1880 photograph is the earliest known depiction of the (then) new entrance to the School Hall, constructed in 1874 or 1875, as part of the rebuilding scheme carried out at this time.
The group of cricketers includes H W Engleheart on the far left, later to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Boer War.