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Old Thorntonians Association (CLAPHAM)
Henry Thornton School, Clapham, South London

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Gallery 1

Battersea County School Crest

1925 November Battersea County School honours board and badge

1928 draft design for School badge

1920s blazer badge

School badge for blazer

1920s cap

1960/70s badge

1929-30 Outer cover of Eric Gilder's music prize

1929 School Prospectus front page

1930 Speech day programme front page

1930 HM Inspectors report front page

1935 Speech day programme

!936; SS Ceramic, adopted by the school, torpedoed and sunk in 1942.(further details in newsletter 13).

1937 variety show flyer for July Follies

1939 Speech Day programme front page

1940 December school report

1942 GSE History (English & European) Exam paper

1943 flyer advertising Poison Pen play being performed at RLS

1943 cast of Poison Pen play newspaper article

1943 Christmas card

1945 Open day programme front page

1945 Open day programme page 2

1948 Speech day, prize winners list

1949 HM Inspectors report front page

1949-50 school play

1949 OTs dinner menu

1949 OTs dinner menu, toast page with attendees signatures

1949 GSE History paper

1951 Admission letter

1951 Clapham Observer article reporting on Speech day

1951 School dinners letter

1951 Curriculum letter

1951 Speech day programme

1953 Batgers Sweets letter celebrating end of rationing

1953 Batgers Sweets Co handout

1954 Open Day programme

1954 OTA handbook front page

1954 Sketch showing South Lodge and Playground from Art Room

1955 Speech Day outer pages

1955 Speech Day inner pages

1955 play by the HTS Dramatic Society

1956 Speech Day outer pages

1956 Speech Day Inner pages

1957 Headmasters note on School Uniform

1957 Speech Day programme front page

1957 Speech Day programme page 2

1957 Speech Day programme page 3

1957 Speech Day programme page 4

Gallery 2

Henry Thornton portrait by Hoppner

The Thornton Family crest

1957/58 School rules front page

1957/58 School rules pages 2-3

1957/58 School rules page 4

1958 June HM Inspectors report on HTS

1959 Autumn Headmasters letter

1960 Mock sacrifice

1961-62 OTA list of officers

1960s The Scholar, statue donated by ex art master Mr D W Huntley (1953-9)

1963 Speech Day programme front page

1963 Speech day programme page 2

1963 Speech Day programme page 3

1963 Speech Day programme page 4

1963: Speech day presentation by Mrs Mann (School Governor) and Mr S W Read. (Photo from Brian Eady, 1962-9)

1964 Speech day programme front page

1964 March, OTA's dinner outer page

1964 11 March OTA dinner menu

1966 Henry Thornton Memorial service outer pages

1966 Henry Thornton Memorial service inner pages

1967 Prizegiving programme

1969 School report

1969 Prizegiving programme

1970 Prizegiving programme

1972 Prizegiving programme front page

Menin Gate newspaper article

19 April 1961: Association dinner held at the Chatham Room restaurant, Victoria, to mark the retirement of Mr S V Yorke, who joined the teaching staff (Mathematics) in 1946

The officlal Association tie

2005 April, Lambeth College visit

14 March 2007, blue plaque on Trinty Church

14 March 2007, showing the plaque on the south outer wall of Holy Trinity Church, North Side, Clapham Common, has been deliberately left unrestored: it was scarred by the bomb blast which almost destroyed the church in 1945

2007 OT Reunion: this well-preserved Clarkson House tie was proudly worn by Brian Bloice (1950-7)

2010 December, Lambeth College visit

2010 December, Lambeth College visit

23 February 2015: group of OTs and relatives during an escorted visit to Lambeth Acadmy, Elms Road; a short report appeared in newsletter no 30 (April 2015 issue)

The Association presented this silver shield to the OT Football Club in 2016. It was purchased from a generous bequest made by Wilf Finbow (school years as shown),who died on 2 June 2015

Another entry on the Wilf Finbow memorial trophy

This third image of the Wilf Finbow trophy displays a set of blank plates for recording the names of later pupils who received the award of Player of the Year

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