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Top - Groups of boys around the Fountain in 1910 and 1989
Bottom - Shows a group of children on their way to football on
big side
The "Hurricane" of Oct 1987- The Aftermath
Shows the removal of a tree stump prior to the replanting of the Avenue with White Beam.
Games
Top right - Hockey players in the enclosed spaces afforded by the London site ~1895.
Other photographs show rugby, netball, badminton and hockey within the 1,200 acres of the school estate in 1989.
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Inside the boarding houses
Top left - Dayroom ~1910
Bottom left - Thornton "B" Dayroom 1989
Top right - Dormitory ~1910
Bottom right - Thornton "B" Dormitory: a boy's Junior house 1989
The School Infirmary
Top & Bottom Right - taken ~1910
Top and Bottom Left - taken in 1989
The Christ's Hospital Infirmary is the largest school infirmary in Britain, with 8 wards and 74 beds
"Trades" in Dining Hall
Top Left and Bottom Right - "Trades" being caried out
sometime between the two Wars.
The others show "Trades" in 1989
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Dinner Parade
Left - 1989 Top right - ~1925
Bottom right - A girl's house marching in to dinner to the School Band in 1989.
The school has been played into dinner by the Band since 1868.
The Cloisters
Top - Before the First World War
Bottom - Boys and girls in 1989
The School Band
Top - Playing ~1895 when the school was house in London, before moving to Horsham in 1902, under the baton of Mr H.A. Godfrey.
Bottom - 120 girls and boys playing at Dinner Parade in the Quadrangle, a daily occurrence. The Band frequently leads the Lord Mayor's Show procession in London.
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The Art School
Top Left - A life class ~1910
Bottom Left - Printing area on first floor 1989
Top right - Drawing class ~1905
Bottom right - Art, first floor 1989
Craft, Design and Technical School
Forge work in progress in 1989 compared with work in 1904 in one of the oldest school forges in the country.
The Science School
Centre - The New Science School built ~1930
Top Right - The Old Science School first floor laboratory at south end compared with a similar view in 1989
Top Left and Bottom Left - pupils working in the laboratory
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The School Chapel
Top Left - The exterior of the Chapel
Top Right - A pupil playing upon the five manual organ
Bottom - a rehearsal for the Christmas Carol Service in 1956, conducted by the then Director of Music, the Rev. C. Cochrane
The Dining Hall
Top - "Trades" taking place 1911
Bottom - Girls and boys at dinner 1989
The Craft, Design and Technical School
Top Left and Right - Before the First World War (formerly called the Manual Training School)
Bottom Left, Right and Centre - Modern equipment 1989 housed in the same rooms