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This is Barnes B in about 1945. I can remember a few names-- I believe that the "Buttons" are, from the Left as you look at it : Watts , Baker, Rosetti, and Croft. To their left,as you look at it, on the extreme end is myself.
Other names I remember to be picked out, are :Mc Inerney, Newsome, Harmer-Morris, Kemp. Chandler, Cohen, Silva, Selby Vinsen, Lucy, and many others ---whiose faces I remember, but the names are gone !
Now in my 80s I'm afraid the mists are closing in and I must retire to a stiff Whiskey and Horlicks !
Neill Evans BaB35 1940-1946
OH DEAR ! -- I still don't seem able to get the picture to you - perhaps I need a Gas-powered Computer

[Edit by JTaylor:- Neil, click on "Edit" and you'll see how to do it!]
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YOu need to give the hamster more vegetables.

OK -- I give up !

Don't give up! I've edited your original post.
All you needed to do was put the text I sent you into the main words of the post (i.e. this bit!) rather than in the title...

J

Great photo. Can I ask why the boys sitting at the front are in different uniform?

As it was wartime clothing was rationed and there was a shortage of Housey so the prep school boys didn't have it.

Oh! Thanks for that.

Thank you for your very kind contribution to "Help the Aged!"
Obviously I'm a slow learner --- but I'll be better next time !

Why no Housemasters or Matron?

House Masters and Matron ??? --= Good point -- I don't remember why they were not there.
Housemaster was Lionel Mahon Carey --- afterwards to another House (?) and then to Sherborne School, in Dorset
Matron -- Miss Watts
I will try to dig out another Photo, with them on it
The Archives are very creepy---- what with Bats and Candle grease and the skeletons in chains in the corner !
However -- having workrd for the Atomic Energy Authority, -- I have my own Light Source (Cherenkov Radiation !)

NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:Matron -- Miss Watts

Ah, Miss Watts.... whenever I think of her it reminds me of 'hair inspections', spoonfuls of 'Malt' and little white china cups of 'Cascara'.
Lovely memories of happy days.

englishangel says:
[quote][As it was wartime clothing was rationed and there was a shortage of Housey so the prep school boys didn't have it./quote]

I hesitate to comment on a post by englishangel, but what she says is not completely correct. It is certainly true that all boys in the Prep wore "civilian clothes" due to wartime rationing, but this extended to the juniors in the upper houses, as well. Certainly, boys in their first year wore these jackets and shorts - as they do in this photograph - and it may also have been the second year, as well.
I was a "squit" in Lamb B in and we did not get Housie uniform until late 1949 or possibly early 1950, when without any warning, all juniors were sent to the Wardrobe to be outfitted with coats, breeches, yellow stockings, etc. The precise date is almost certainly noted in The Blue of the period.

Comment away. I just said as much as I knew for lonelymom's edification and left people who knew the rest to fill in the gaps. It had been mentioned before on here so I knew that little bit.

Can't help as to the exact date of "Civvies for 1st Years"
When I arrived (Late -- due to Blitz death) in December 1940, I was issued with uniform on the first day --- the only "Civvies" were the Westminster Trebles -- evacuated on us for a short time.
When did Juniors wear something different ? --- when did Seniors take any notice of Juniors !
I have found another Photo of what, I believe, were called the "Jogger Deps", which I described as being hardly Academics --- but bloomin' good at Rugby etc !
I will try to Post it --- under my new, clear intructions ! I believe it was published, some time ago, in the Blue.

Prep, 3rd Form, LF, LE wore plain clothes up to September 1948 when LE got bluecoats - the rest the year after that I think.