Featured Artefacts

                  Two very different publications, produced by the VI Form, one hundred years apart. The ILLITERARY DIGEST featured stories, illustrations, quips and quirks, interviews and articles…

The discovery of a large box of clothing, started a process, which led to a whole lot of cataloguing, sorting and laundering of an eclectic mix of boys and girls uniform. The blue pinafores, worn on…

Staying with the snowy theme, this photo from the 1930s is evidence of the magnificent efforts of the schoolboys, in building the huge snowman, complete with school boater and scarf, on the edge of t…

            With the Centenary of the Armistice upon us this year, I wanted to highlight a couple of passages from the 1918 December editions of the Girls’ Chronicle and Berkhamstedian magazines. T…

John Norman Fletcher was a pupil at Berkhamsted for five years, leaving in 1908. Captain of both Football and Cricket 1st XIs, Senior Prefect and 2nd Lt. in the Corps. This information and more was a…

            With the Centenary of the Armistice upon us this year, I wanted to highlight a couple of passages from the 1918 December editions of the Girls’ Chronicle and Berkhamstedian magazines. T…

This update is all about discovery. As I have mentioned before, my days are rarely planned and I never know what I’ll be dealing with when opening correspondence, unwrapping a parcel or answering a c…

As editor of The Berkhamstedian, ARC Bolton had received a letter and photograph from George Pearkes, who was in France at the time. The scrap of graph paper is dated and titled In the Field, March 6…

During a very busy summer of refurbishment and essential work around the school sites, several artefacts came to light and were sent to the Archive, read on to find out what work was done and where …

These unremarkable scraps of paper were found under the benches in the old Lecture Room. The boys W.H. Smith and T.S. Dick came to the school in 1891 and 1894 respectively, unfortunately I cannot fi…

This collection of pen and ink drawings of characters from an O.T.C. Camp, were sent to Major ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, who subsequently left them in a non-descript brown envelope, to be discovered, whilst r…

Cataloguing the items from one of the OBs boxes was a task over two days, as anything that had the remotest of connections had been ‘popped in’ the box for safe keeping. Amongst the array of old env…