Tag Archives: Low

Tuesday July 27th

I was first down of Chiswickites to breakfast this morning but nothing happened worth recording. I went to Abbey by myself and found Mr Benvenisti in the next stall to me. We again had a beautiful service and the Psalms … Continue reading →

Posted in Abbey, School Customs | Tagged Barrington-Ward, Benvenisti, Clarke, Gow, Low, Murray, Rawson, Smurthwaite, Startin, The Professor, Williams, Williamson | Comments Off

Monday July 26th (Election Monday)

I can’t analyse my feelings at all. I am not nearly as affected at leaving as I should have been a year ago. I do feel it very deeply but I also feel and this is almost the strongest, that … Continue reading →

Posted in School Customs | Tagged Christie's, Election Dinner, Epigrams, Longton, Low, Smurthwaite, Sotheran's | Comments Off

Thursday April 1st

I have for some unknown reason got a vile cold again today, my third this term. We had the last meeting this year of Deb. Soc., a horrid and depressing meeting. We discussed ‘That this House would welcome the formation … Continue reading →

Posted in Debating Society, Health | Tagged Barrington-Ward, Clarke, Debating, Debating Society, Low, Water | Comments Off

Wednesday March 31st

In prayers today John Gow never thinking what he was doing sang the wrong response. We fortunately backed him up and the School mumbled something. I was infuriated to hear Circuitt had had the cheek to ask Hobson when he … Continue reading →

Posted in Abbey, Local History, School Customs | Tagged Barrington-Ward, Circuitt, Cloisters, Dean, G.G. Williams, Gow jnr, Hobson, Low, Wade, Wood, Wright | Comments Off

Wednesday March 24th (Queen Elizabeth died 1603)

A real March day pouring rain and raging wind. Beastly!… Home-Boarders with that courtesy which is so marked a trait in such typical types as Bonner and Circuitt (The ‘Scis’ have lately delighted us by calling Circuitt ‘Shirk it’, a … Continue reading →

Posted in School Customs, Sport | Tagged Aldershot, Ashburnham, Bonner, Circuitt, Fencing, Formilli, Gym, Hobson, Home Boarders, Low, Miles, Officer Training Corps, Raynor, Scis, War Office | Comments Off

Wednesday March 17th

Father not getting up to Early Prep I had to make a special effort and got down in time to take it. Hobson with lamentable lack of faith arrived a few minutes late to take Prep thinking I wasn’t down! … Continue reading →

Posted in Local History | Tagged Barrington-Ward, Burrell, Cambridge, Dean, Fletcher, Goodall, Gow, Gray, Hobson, King's Cross, Longhurst, Low, McCarthy, Mr Hadley, oxted, Rackham, Readman, Trinity, Williamson | Comments Off

Thursday March 11th

Thanks be we have beaten Ashburnham by the narrow margin of one goal (1-0) after a good game. Went ‘up’ fields with Sargeaunt as I remarked to Low ‘our feelings were too sharply divided’ for us to speak to each … Continue reading →

Posted in School Customs, Sport | Tagged Ashburnham, Barrington-Ward, Benvenisti, Cambridge, College, Hobson, Home Boarders, Low, Rigaud's, Sargeaunt, Wood, Wootton | Comments Off

Monday March 1st, St DavidÔÇÖs Day

Except perhaps Low, I back I was the only Westminster boy who gave a thought to St David’s Day and yet 50 years ago it was a red-letter day at Westminster. The day on which ditch-leaping was indulged in and … Continue reading →

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Tuesday February 23rd, Shrove Tuesday

We had Prep at 7.30 today instead of 7.15, no fresh cases this morning… A much shortened 3rd hour owing to the Pancake, the bell going at 12.30 and for once in a way I had a good view of … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, School Customs | Tagged A. C. Bradley, Anstey Guthrie, Austin Dobson, Barrington-Ward, E. V. Lucas, Francis Atterbury, Henry Beeching, J. H. Aitkin, John Sargeaunt, Low, Sidney Lee, The Greaze, Tomlinson | Comments Off

Thursday February 18th

. After Hall I went up to the Exhibition and showed some things to Etheridge and Pemberton and W. Gray. Grandly opening cases, as a Committee man and handling birds whereas mere ‘visitors’ are ‘requested not to touch’!… Later Low … Continue reading →

Posted in Abbey, Music | Tagged 'flu, Cavendish-Bentwich, Etheridge, Gilmour, Gray, Hobson, Low, Pemberton, Tchaikovsky | Comments Off

Tag Archives: Low

Tuesday July 27th

Monday July 26th (Election Monday)

Thursday April 1st

Wednesday March 31st

Wednesday March 24th (Queen Elizabeth died 1603)

Wednesday March 17th

Thursday March 11th

Monday March 1st, St DavidÔÇÖs Day

Tuesday February 23rd, Shrove Tuesday

Thursday February 18th

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