We love this photo of the Brasser group sent in by Sue Canney Davison (LI 1970-72). We believe it was taken in 1971. If anyone can identify any of the players, we’d love to know.
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by Jack Thomas (C2 1942-47) One afternoon in July, 1942, my father and I took the steam train from Ealing Broadway to Paddington. There we boarded a faster train bound for the glories of the west country. Two hours later we alighted at the small station of Marlborough, long since closed by Dr Beeching. A […]
by Charles A. Hope (B1 1954-58) “First just a gentle start. In a Shell maths set, a master was conducting a mental arithmetic test. “I have eight pence in my left trouser pocket and nine pence in my right pocket. I transfer one third of the money in my right pocket to my left pocket. […]
“The trickiest morning of my term of office started with Roger Ellis (then Master) knocking on my door in the Porter’s Lodge to ask me if I knew anything about the 32 pound artillery gun that had been placed in the middle of Court pointing directly at C House or the banner made from a […]
“I was pleased to see some of the practical Old Marlburians given space in the winter 2016 OM Club Magazine. My brother (Colin Labouchere, LI 1952-56) pointed out that I won the Carpentry Prize in 1954 with the building of the Village Green Seat at Sculthorpe, Norfolk, commissioned in memory of the 1953 Coronation of […]
“I was reminded the other day whilst watching the BBC weather programme how viciously cold it was during the whole of February 1947. Snow drifts across the country caused roads and railways to be blocked with the result that coal supplies already low after the war struggled to get through to power stations so the […]
WE are delighted to announce publication on the College Archive website of War Memoirs and Letters of Harry Fox (CO 1911-16). Upon leaving school, in common with almost all of his contemporaries, he was called up and, upon completion of Officer and Artillery training, Second Lieutenant Harry Fox, aged 19, was sent to fight in […]