| Document Description and Hyperlink | file size | Contributor |
|---|---|---|
‘Child of the Thirties’In parts of her 2006 book, Sheila Brook writes of her days at Chandos during the early ’40s - and the staff at the Girls’ School. See Chapter 15 (p. 154) onwards. |
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| Plan of Park High/Chandos - from the rear of a 'handout’ at the 1999 reunion. | 165KB | |
| Words to the school (Girls’) song | 54KB | Marian Young (née Marion Hughes) |
| Letter, May 1945, from the Headmaster, Mr Besant, to Harold Dummer inviting him to a ceremony celebrating the success of the Book Recovery Brigade… and some associated badges earned by Harold. | 149KB | Harold Dummer |
| "In my days at Chandos Girls, (1943), we used to get the teachers and prefectsto sign our autograph books." | Kathleen Goshawk (’45) | |
| My School Days (1945-’50) | 4KB | Peter Brittain |
| 1948 Girls’ School Magazine (Scanned as 'black & white’ - but, to mitigate pixelation artefacts, I've blurred the half-tone photograph to display in true grey-scale. - C.P.) Page pairs: Contents, 0-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21 (“I can't remember writing about The Schooner, although I was ‘ship mad’ in those days. I used to love drawing pictures of galleons. I guess it must have been because the relatives on my mother’s side were all sailors.” - Sheila Monincx née Bush), 22-23, 24-25, 26-27, 28-29, 30-31, 32-33, 34-35, 36-37 an ‘Arbutus’? - it's a shrub with a strawberry-like fruit that grows around the Mediterranean coast. |
c. 90KB/page-pair | Harrow Civic-Centre Library |
| 1951 - A log from St Mary's Bay Holiday Camp Front cover, party members and programme. |
c. 40KB each | Roy Fabian ('54) |
| 1956 - Front Cover of Mathematics work-book. | 52KB | Geoffrey Calvert |
| 1961 - photo of St Mary’s Bay hut accommodation, inside cover of journal, party members and a "behave yourself" letter from Head, Kenneth Whiting - complete with a few rust stains from the folder in which it has been kept. | c. 130KB (hut photo), and 50KB the rest | Malcolm Hall ('59-'65) |
| 1961 Boys’ Coach holiday to Germany. | Barry Stevens | |
| Peter remembers the Camp Craft course and a trip to Wendover in 1962/3. | Peter Graham, 1958-63 | |
| 1959 - Boys’ School Report. | 74KB | Richard Tann |
| 1961 - Boys’ School Report. "Rural Science"? That was apparently a euphemism for basic horticulture and agriculture - how to look after an allotment or keep chickens and farm animals - training for pupils who would work as farm labourers. Its appearance in a suburban school syllabus was probably a legacy of war-time shortages when families needed to rely on domestically-produced food to supplement their rations. |
77KB | C.P. ('59-'65) |
| 1962 - Girls’ School 2nd year Report, front cover. (Brown paper and label - remember them?) What’s Marian doing now? (her web site) |
Marion Hughes (’60-’65) | |
| 1964 - Boys’ School Report - and comments on an unique achievement. | 45KB | Malcolm Hall |
1964/5 - Speech Day (Girls’) Programme. | ||
| Cover; pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | c.35KB each | Marian Young/Hughes |
Educational CruisesBoth Chandos schools enthusiastically embraced the concept of Educational Cruises during the 1960s and early ’70s. Cruise vessels were: MS Dunera, SS Nevasa, SS Uganda and Devonia - all owned by the 'British India Steam Navigation Co.’ (Latterly assimilated into P&O.) | ||
| 1965, 1966 Boys’ Cruises around the Mediterranean. | 4KB | Les Bristow |
| 1968 - Girls’ trip on the Nevasa. Party members and the Itinerary. | 45KB (pdf) | Jane Sturman (née Gates) |
| 1970 - Girls’ trip on the Uganda. Party members and the Itinerary. | 45KB (pdf) | Jane Sturman |
Mini-memoirsThis section comprises inspiring, mini life-stories of a few ex-pupils, their recollections of their neighbourhood, their school-days, what influenced them and how they got to where they are now. | ||
| 1943 - Kathleen Goshawk’s Story | 12KB | Kathleen Leffew née Goshawk |
| 1943-45 - Jean Stone's Story The text of ex-pupil Jean’s presentation to a New Zealand-based retirement group about her childhood in Stanmore and the circumstances around her emigration to N. Z. in the 1940s. |
Jean Archer née Stone | |
| 1945-50 - Sheila Bush’s Story | 20KB (plus photos) | Sheila Monincx |
| 1945-50 - Peter Brittain Reminisces | 5KB | Peter Brittain |
| 1947-50 - Chris Harrington’s Story | 6KB | Chris Harrington |
| 1959-65 - Malcolm Hall’s Story | 18KB (plus photos) | Malcolm Hall |
| 1960-65 - Marian’s Story | 4KB | Marian Young (née Hughes) |
| 1960-66 - Memories of A 'Ginger’ | 4KB | Les Bristow |
| 1962-68 - Steve Field’s Story | 10KB | Steve Field |
| 1970s - John Willoughby Remembers | 8KB | John Willoughby |
| 1952-56 - Douglas’s Story | a link to a genealogy blog site | Douglas Graham Sheffield |
R. I. P. | ||
| Irene Grimley - an eulogy | 8KB | various |
| Major Howard Crawley | 16K + 410K image | various |
