Beschreibung:

An album containing 137 real photo postcards of the school, collected by a pupil, Leo Burgess, circa 1911-20, comprising general school views including aerial shots, St John's, cyclists, the grounds, chapel and interiors, classes, playground, cricket field, library, gym, rowing teams on the river, cricket, rugby and other sports teams, armoury and instructors, shooting range, matron, horseriding, swimming pool, art and other classrooms, laboratory, the chaplain, OTC selection, band parades, many with captions in the negative and some with annotations to versos, corner-mounted and generally VG, some mounts and leaves blank, contemporary boards with home-made cloth cover An extraordinary pictorial record of this Jesuit public school which opened in 1861 and closed in 1967. Beaumont College was one of only two public schools to send their first Eleven to Lord's and their first Eight to Henley, the other being Eton College. When de Coubertin visited England in the course of researching the basis of his new Olympic movement the four schools he visited were Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Beaumont. The Combined Cadet Force was the only one in the country to be affiliated to the Household Division. Beaumont is one of the few great schools now gone, the property owned by Principal Hotels De Vere Beaumont Estate. The album has the school colours stitched to the cloth cover, Burgess's name on the front endpaper and a card sent to him in 1916 is included in the album. (1)