Figure 1.-- This is a school portrait at Earleywood Prep School in 1948. The school now had avout 50 schools. Tme women in thenurses uniforms are probanly the matrons. |
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Earleywood Prep School was a family-run prep school located at Ascot. We are not sure when the school was founded. At the turn of the century it was a small school with only 28 boys. A reader has found a photographic album with interesting images from the school in 1948 illustrating life of the school. The photographs depict arrival, Scout camp, marking out the sports field, sports, model sailboat racing in the swimming pool. school play, the school photograph, and finally Prize Day. Cricket team and school photograph. The school has long since closed. The battered photographic album is all that remains. It is a historic document showing typical activities at a lively prep school.
Earleywood Prep School was a family-run prep school located at Ascot. We are not sure when the school was founded. It appears to have been some time in the late-19th century. We do notknow what happened during the World War II. We know it was thriving in the 1940s after the War. Apparentlly the school was amalgamated with Stubbington School, another Ascot prep school, in the 1960s.
At the turn of the century it was a small school with only 28 boys. The school described itself in its prospectus: "
The school buildings, designed and built for the present Principals in 1902, are situated near Ascot on the well-known 'Bagshot Sands' in a high and bracing locality. The playing fields and garden comprise nearly 10 acres of ground, including cricket and football meadows and a gravelled playground. The lighting, ventilation, and sanitation have been carefully arranged in accordance with the latest modern methods of Hygiene. An experienced Matron has charge of the health and comfort of the boys. Breathing and other exercises for boys of insufficient physical development are carried out daily under the personal supervision of Mr.Pitkin (St.Thomas' Hospital)." An account describes one of the students, Philip Reid (1901- ). "Philip had three outfits: a tweed suit with breeches and belted Norfolk jacket in the winter; grey flannel coat and shorts for the summer; and Etons on Sundays. The Eton suit had a black jacket like a page-boy's, black waistcoat and striped trousers, stiff white collar over the coat collar, and black tie. The collar was difficult to button with cold fingers, and collar studs were a new thing to Philip. In addition to the headmaster, there were two assistant masters, and a governess for the younger boys. Sergeant Buckle, who had a spiky, waxed moustache, taught Swedish drill, rifle shooting and swimming. Philip enjoyed winter carpentering lessons with the atmosphere of pine shavings and glue. Sergeant Buckle and the carpentering were both still going strong when I was at Earleywood forty years later." [Reid]
A reader has found a photographic album with interesting images from the school in 1948 illustrating life of the school. The school hadn't grown a great deal overv the 40 years, but had doubled. There were about 50 boys at the school in 1948. The photographs depict arrival, Scout camp, marking out the sports field, sports, model sailboat racing in the swimming pool. school play, the school photograph, and finally Prize Day. Cricket team and school photograph. The school has long since closed. The battered photographic album is all that remains. It is a historic document showing typical activities at a lively prep school.
Reid, Alex. "Life story of Philip Reid," internet posting January 2008.
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