Originally posted by Jim Wishart when he started this site in 2000
Note: From information received from John Piper on 1st. December 2016,
by way of a copy of a postcard with this same photo on it, the above photo dates
prior to Sunday 16th. July 1939, not circa 1946 as originally thought.
(See 'Photos General' for the poscard)
Note 2: On 19th. August 2017, John Piper advised he had found another postcard with the same photo on it, this time postmarked 6th October 1934 ...
The photo shows the building that housed the woodwork room and, in John Piper's day, the music room. Neil Jenkinson's book, The History Of Peter Symonds', tells us that a ‘manual instruction room for carpentry and the armoury’ was erected in January 1933.
That being the case, the date the photo was taken must lie between
January 1933 and 6th October 1934. (or, say, a month or two earlier to
allow time for production and distribution of the card ready for sale in
the October) |
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