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Canford Cygnets

BX306-01

Large scrapbook containing scoresheets, photos, newspaper articles etc

Ex- display: famous OCs

BX30-35

Display , produced by Bruce Macfarlane for Gaudy. Includes photos and brief accounts of: Sir Ronald Hempel; Air Chief Marshall Sir Roger Palin; Lord Monro of Langholm; Professor Anthony Bryer; General Sir Brian Kenny, Sir John Drummond; Ben Gollings; Owen Bennett-Jones; Michael Medwin; Derek Jarman

Box of Lithographs of Canford

BX302

Used for a book on the school published in 1934. Photos include historical ones (the large chestnut tree; views of the house when the Guests owned it etc) as well as contemporary ones of the pupils eg rwoing

Cane

BX307

Cane sold in school shop (for prefects?). Unknown date

Hockey trophies

BX304

Various shields for school hockey competitions: English Schools Hockey 1989: U18 County champions, U18 Divisional champions English School Hockey 1990: U16 County champions, U16 Divisional champions, U18 County champions, U18 Divisional champions, U18 National finalists Hockey Association1991/2: U16 Divisional winners Hockey Assosication 1992/3: U18 Divisional Runners-Up

Model railway

BX301

Model railway used for the Model Railway Society. Made by Graham Farish (OC parent). Originally set up in the cellars.

Rowing trophies

BX303

Box containing shields, trophies and pennants Shields 1975 Head of the River SC 1980 Head of the River N 1980 Barnes & Mortlake Sen 'C' 8 Trophies 1981 EUHOR (x2) 1974 National Championships Colts 8 bronze medal Pennants 1977 Avon County Schools J14 sculls 1978 Avon County Schools J15 Sculls 1981 Avon County Schools J16 8s 1975 Schools Head 3rd 1976 Schools Head 3rd 1979 Mortlake Spring Regatta 1974 EUBC - no initials but similar design to below 1975 EUBC (x2) 1976 EUBC (x2) 1977 EUBC

Letter re Andrew Blair

BX30-34

Letter (1987) from Allan Blair asking about his father - Andrew Hunter Blair - who had been at Clarence School from 1920-8.+ Martin Marriott's reply

Embossers

BX305

Four embossers of various vintage used to impress paper with a distinctive mark 1. 'Wimborne 11'. This was the telephone number for the Guest family (and later the Canford Headmaster) so was probably bought by them to put theie number at the top of letters 2. 'Canford School Limited'. Used by the bursary. A new embossing head has been fixed to a Victorian embosser decorated with gold flowers 3 'Canford School Society Limited' A more recent embosser: plain, heavy and black 4 'Cheneford Limited' Much smaller, more modern silver and bright blue embosser, Numbers 2, 3 and 4 were donated by Tim Brown in 2022, the Director of Finance

School notices

BX306-02

Large scrapbook filled with notices during Canning's headmastership, often signed by the HM himself. Topics cover the range of quotidian school life, giving a good representation of the life of boarders at that time.

Cricket scorebook for 1945

BX306-03

(Too large to fit with other scorebooks) This is the one that contains Iain Campbell's double century against Downside

Pre-war CCF equipment

BX308

A selection of army equipment of unknown origin. Possibly belonging to a pupil but more likely to have been owned by a member of staff. 1938 French Mucel gas mask with detachable air filter Rucksack inscribed 22358569 Cpl Smith W B Coy Water bottle 1944 map case made inscribed W & C Ltd Cloth sharpshooter badge (rifle + white star) 1942 belt with two bags attached