Honours Board from Wood Street buildings (transcription)
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Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
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Honours Board from Wood Street buildings (transcription)
Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
Postcard from A M Shearsmith to Revé Ferry, posted 24th April 1909, picture side
Postcard donated by Paul J Roethenbaugh (1945-52). The card was written and posted on 24th April 1909 by A M Shearsmith who, unusually, placed the stamp on the ‘picture side’. The stamp cost 1d (1 penny in old money), which is for example only 1/80th of the value of a stamp in 2004. King Edward died just over a year later.
Written on picture side: Yr friend A.M. Shearsmith 24/4/09
Tudor Hall and Headmaster's House
Tudor Hall on the left and Headmaster's House on the right
Wood Street school buildings with Mulberry tree in foreground
Cricket Team in front of Tudor Hall 1880
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (postcard)
Holly Croft - look into the loft
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.
View of Wood Street Buildings - labelled 'Queen Victoria School'
Gateposts in front of Queen Elizabeth's School (Wood Street)
View of Wood Street buildings from the playground
School Prefects 1930-31 with Headmaster Mr Jenkins
Earliest drawing of the original school
Possibly the earliest drawing of the original school at Tudor Hall - from an illustrated edition of the Environs of London, by Lysons, in the Guildhall Library (date unknown). The view is from the North of the school.
The School in 1790 from a painting by Thomas Baskerfield in The Environs of London, by Lysons, in the British Museum. Cecil Tripp states (p15) that from 1637 to 1873 "the school buildings remained practically unaltered".
Thomas Baskerfield
Architect's drawing for new classrooms
Architect's drawing for new classrooms, 1st July 1876. Cecil Tripp states (p120) that originally only four classrooms were planned. Before long however, further classrooms were needed, and it was proposed that the line of classrooms already erected be extended. Funds became available for the building of four additional classrooms (with a separate entrance), which were completed by the end of 1877.
Architect's drawing for new classrooms
Architect's drawing for new classrooms, 1st July 1876. Cecil Tripp states (p120) that originally only four classrooms were planned. Before long however, further classrooms were needed, and it was proposed that the line of classrooms already erected be extended. Funds became available for the building of four additional classrooms (with a separate entrance), which were completed by the end of 1877.
Photograph of the extended classrooms, with the mulberry tree
Photograph of the new classrooms
The new classrooms, old School building and Headmaster's house, from the playground - Barnet parish church beyond.
Photograph of the new classrooms
Photograph of the School Hall and Headmaster's house
The School Hall and Headmaster's house (built 1874), from the playground.
Photograph of the new school entrance
The photograph was produced after the construction of a new entrance to the School grounds, with brick and stone gateposts and an iron railing fence. The right hand side gatepost bears the date "1875". In that year, the school was reopened after the implementation of a new Scheme of Management, made possible by the financial help of the Jesus Hospital charity of Barnet. At that time extensive building and renovation work took place, although the new entrance may not have been completed until 1877 (Tripp, pp. 109-122).
Photograph of the new school entrance
Tripp (p.158) also records that the ivy growing on the School Hall was removed in 1916, so this photograph was almost certainly produced after that date.
Drawing of the new school entrance
Drawing of the new school entrance
Photograph of the new school hall
Photograph of the new school hall taken inside the ground, taken evidently prior to the removal of the ivy in 1916, and showing a cultivated garden in the foreground. The conifer which appears in previous photographs was then still immature.
Photograph of the entrance and headmaster's house
The photograph was taken from further up Wood Street, possibly in the early 1900s.
Photograph of the school entrance taken from Wood Street
The photograph was taken from the opposite direction to the previous one.
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.
Photograph of the Lecture Hall and Laboratory, built in 1901
Drawing of entrance to the school hall
Drawing to the entrance of the school hall
Interior photograph of the kitchen dresser of the old school
Interior photograph of the hall, with the "whipping post" in the foreground
Photograph of an Old Elizabethan dinner
Photograph of an Old Elizabethan dinner, circa 1906