News from St Swithun’s Archives
Photo Challenge Following on from the success of an online puzzle challenge over lockdown, the St Swithun’s archivist set another competition for staff and pupils over the summer term. Taking inspiration from Fettes College in Edinburgh, who re-enacted a photograph from their archive for the school’s 150th anniversary, the aim of the challenge was for each house to choose a photo from the school archive and recreate it as accurately as possible. A point was awarded for every submission and extra points were given for how accurate the photo was compared to the original. Our judges consisted of the school archivist Elly Crookes, the head of history David Filtness and Dave Wallington our marketing and communications officer. The responses were fantastic! The winning boarding house was Hillcroft and the winning day house was Mowbray. Staff also got involved. The school’s domestic staff were strong contenders for 1st place with their fantastic recreation of the Earlsdown boarding house domestic staff in 1900. Headmistress Jane Gandee and our school chaplain Paul Wallington also submitted a strong entry with their recreation of the photo of our school founders Anna Bramston and Amélie LeRoy.
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However, the winning submission was from the Senior Management team who covertly pulled off a fantastic and very accurate recreation of a gym class the 1950s… L-R: Martyn Gamble (Bursar), Graham Yates (Deputy Head, Pastoral), Jane Gandee (Headmistress – pictured upside down!), Charlie Hammel (Deputy Head, Academic) and Reverend Paul Wallington (School Chaplain). ■
