Correspondence: Tennis Courts
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Correspondence concerning creating of tennis courts
Correspondence and quotations: New Gymnasium
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Planning for conversion of Old Riding School into a gym
Riding Records
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List of school and privately owned horses; feed scale; shoeing roll; Notes on feeds; booklet with riders' daily allocations to horses, June 25 - July 27, 1940 Letter from Lord Maclean to Mrs Beaumont 13.5.87 - (Relevance to riding records not known Donated by Darius Rodrigues (L12)
Papers on Arthur Oberg
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Arthur Oberg worked with Canford from the time it started and was on the staff periodically. His lecture at Canford on 28/4/1938 on Swedish Physical Education was reported in the national press. The following papers were donated by Mrs Diana Jarvis, his granddaughter: -papers on his qualifications and his 'knighthood of the Royal Order of Vasa' from the Swedish government. (Some of these are in Swedish. -A copy of the speech he gave on 28/4/1938 -Some press-cuttings: obituary; picture of PE event of April 1938, news of his knighthood, obituary, three newspaper reports on his PE event of April 1938
Real / Royal Tennis
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The Royal Tennis Court, Hampton Court (History, Description of the Court, Royal Tennis Today) [1930] Tennis Courts in the British Isles (Table - 1947) Diagram 'intended to explain the Game of Tennis Two circulars from Hon Sec of Hampton Court Tennis Club Plan of the Court Newspaper article by Lord Aberdare: 'Royal Game Began as Handball)
Real / Royal Tennis
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Various newspaper cuttings, mainly from Evening Echo, Bournemouth, from early 1990s. Included are 'Royal tennis played her for 100 years', with comments by Martin Marriott, and 'Documents chart the history of real tennis' which suggests that Canfor had a real tennis court in Henry VIII's reign
Riding June 1939
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List of boys who ride
Riding
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Announcing new arrangements for riding
Swimming Sports Programmes
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1926 (annotated with results by F Vagliano 1928 (3 copies); 1929, 1930 + Team sheet on Court House paper of Court Swimming team (signed by H Boyle) 7.7.28
Shooting Fixtures for 1932 and 1940
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1932 annotated with results
1940 donated by Robin Bell-Irving (his father was capt)
Games Committee
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A few miscellaneous items - grounds report, minutes, etc
Canford School Festival of Sport
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For prep schools: Demonstrations and Have -a-go sessions
Lawn Tennis Fixture Cards
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1981, 1987
Squash Fixture Card
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Golf Club card
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Score card and rules.
Pre-glossy cards; simple printing on blue card. 1970s??
Staff Golf
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Rules and arrangements for staff; list of members (Cutting from newspaper with photo of Arthur Jarvis and Hugh Playfair
Map of Grounds
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in Colour; 3 copies - 1 copy marks out X-country course for Old Malt House June 9th 2003
Minutes of Development and Strategy Group Meeting
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15th OOctober 1999) PR Cadogan and FT Ahern in attendance
Notes for PT Instructors
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No information about source or date. Donated by P Cattermole (S67) Nov 2013
Schools and Riding: Canford School
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Schools and Riding: Canford School. June 1939 Article from (unknown publication) about riding at Canford; by Capt. Lionel Dawson, RN
Golf Club
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Brief description of club and membership fees
Golf card
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Two score cards, rules, course diagram.
Change of hole order between cards; second one has named holes
The Canford Sports Centre (brochure)
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Promotional leaflet, membership prices, application form.
Canford School Golf Club Diary
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Inter-house Boxing Competition
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Lists of contests, 1930 list annotated with results.
Sport's trophies
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Paperwork explaining the gift of a large number of silver cups from Hailey School.
When HS closed, all the trophies were presented to the schools where the last winners went on to from HSl. As it was a local prep school many pupils came to Canford and the cups have since been used to replace a number of the trophies lost when Court House was burgled.
South African golf tour
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Programm for the schools' tournament held at Sun City Resort in Aug 2007.
Includes list of players and coaches from all forty schools (mainly SA but several from UK).
Canford's were, Chris Jervis, Steve Ronaldson + James Hollis, Jamie Edwards, Ollie Wilder, Ed Searle
Horse riding photograph
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Photocopy of photo in newspaper showing E Leslie Wienholt (W32) jumping a fence on a grey horse in c1930
Donated by his daughter Helen Faircliff
Letter to parents about co-education
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Written by Sir John Curtiss, the Cahirman of Governors, on 19th Mar 1994 about the decision to become fully co-ed.
Boxing & Fencing Competition
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Programme for 7th Annual Tournament between Bruton, Canford, Marlborough and Sherborne.
Handwritten results show that Canford won.
Donated by O Gero (M58)
Boxing - HM letters
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A number of letters to and from the HM. Some are just about booking space for matches, but most show the decreasing interest in staging matches.
Those with Winchester focus on mismatches; a four way match between Kings (Bruton), Sherborne, Canford and Marlborough) cancelled for medical reasons; the school doctor is involved; boxing is made optional and then stopped.
Parent letters re co-education and long hair
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About fifty letters from parents to the HM (Wallace) in response to his questionnaire. No copy of he questionnaire exists but it is simple to infer that he asked a) whether having a few girls in the 6th form would be good and b) whether boys should be allowed to grow their hair longer.
there was universal support for having a few girls and near total agreement that boys' hair should remain fairly short.
Co-education: early discussions
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Letter from Sir John Curtiss to governors re 'The Way Ahead'
Paper written by John Lever on Canford's future focusing on co-education (Sep 93)
Paper on co-education from John Lever (Jan 94)
Similar handwritten paper from John Lever (Jan 94)
Co-education: staff discussion groups
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Minutes/agendas/names for 'Transition discussions' on co-education
Co-education: announcements
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Various letters from HM and Chairman of Govs to parents, staff etc announcing full co-education
Summary of Policy
Advice to staff
Letter from HM to King's Canterbury HM re joining HMC co-ed group
Fives at Canford
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Scrapbook compiled by G Brodribb (master i/c Fives)
Includes detailed scores of school and house matches, lists of captains/secretaries and a number of action photographs.
Donated by David Barnes (Bucklebury)