The OldWinburnians

Events

The Cadet Corps has 57 members.

Dr W E Hadden starts school at the prep department aged 8. His brother Henry had preceded him, eventually became Vicar of Alderholt. They travelled by train from West Moors, where their father was the local Doctor. There were then 30-35 boarders. During his time the Chantry in School Lane was bought, added several rooms to the accomodation. The boys sat for Oxford School Certificate and London Matriculation exams, at age 15, and Oxford Higher Certificate at 18. The Army Cadet Force existed and about one third of the boys belonged. They competed for the Lucas-Tooth Shield against Sherborne and Hardy's School at Dorchester. At the beginning they played football and cricket in fields just before Julian's Bridge leaving Wimborne. Then the fields off East Borough were bought and games transferred there. They had two swimming places on the River Stour, Big Leaze and Little Leaze. Commemoration Day was in July each year, they marched into the Minster singing Onward Christian Soldiers, and listened to the interminable Bidding Prayer which recited all the pious legacies of the previous centuries. Prize-giving followed, in Big School. There was no school uniform, but they had the chocolate and cerise school ties. There were no prefects. School was from Monday to Saturday 9 to 4. The house system, Richmond, Derby and School, was introduced in his day.
Obit Rev. George Styles MA, Chairman of the Governors. Obit. Rev. Canon E R Bernard l. 1852, was Chancellor of the Diocese of Salisbury.
Improvements include 2 more rooms for boarders, a larger carpentry shop on the Chantry site, old physics lab has engineering shop added. Re-organisation of classes: preparatory form: then forms I, II, III, IVB, IVA, VB, then VA, who take Senior Local Certificate: VI sit for Oxford Higher School Certificate. The new intake of Governors include the Earl of Shaftesbury, C R Hay, S C Riley and F Richards. The War Memorial was completed and mounted.
Commem this year presided over by the Bishop of Woolwich, who had, as Rev. W W Hough, been maths master from 1882 -1887. The new Vicar of Wimborne, Canon A L Keith took the service.
At the Inter-school sports at Shaftesbury, they won by 13.5 points to Shaftesbury's 8 and Poole's 5.5 points. S J Barton won High jump, Long jump, 220 yards, and the Hurdles. A D nd Ward came 2 in both High Jump and Long Jump. The latter left in the summer and joined the Western Telegraph Co

Cadet Corps won the Lucas-Tooth Shield. Governors set up subscription to finance new buildings.

The headmaster announces the departure of Charles Fowler. He was presented with a list of 250 subscribers and a cheque for 110 guineas. Visibly affected by these marks of esteem, as he was by the presentation of a gold watch by the Old Winburnbians Association the day before. OWA dinner presided by General F C Trotman KCB.
The Governors bought the Chantry in School Lane to provide much-needed classrooms. Alterations and improvements made to the Chemistry lab. Obit: Lt-Col E K Fletcher, younger son of Walter Fletcher and grandson of the former headmaster.
At Christmas Big School was packed for a concert towards the school extensionfund. The Nigger Troupe performed De Ole Banjo, Susannah, Polly Wolly Doodle and many more. Various sketches were presented. £13 were raised.

At Easter a pageant at Victoria Hall in aid of the Waifs and Strays, boys gave 2 sketches, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Nicholas Nickelby. st Literary and Debating Society formed: 1 debate “Literary and Debating Societies should be abolished”, proposal won by 21 to 7.
At a performance of The Gondoliers in Wimborne W R Hibberd was the Grand Inquisitor, Ronald Gomer conducted, and P F Tanner played the drums.
T W Tapping joins the staff. C H Watts Parkinson, OW and governor, presents a cup for the boy getting highest marks at School Cert. Kept in Big School, as are cups for Games, shooting and Gymnastics.
Lucas-Tooth Shield: school came in behind Shaftesbury and Weymouth.
The Roll of Honour affixed to the wall of Big School.
Accompanied by the Headmaster, a party went to the Great Exhibition at Wembley, seem to have visited everything.

The School acquires an extensive stretch of water bordering East Boro. This is evidently what we afterwards called the Playing Field. th The OWA held a smoker on 17 Dec, and had quite a good attendance.
Picture of the whole school in 1925.

At Commemoration the preacher was Rev. Stanhope Nourse OW, Rural Dean of Honiton. The Headmaster spoke of the need for better accomodation for more than 200 boys, and hope to have it before long. After prizegiving, James Druitt at school 70 years earlier told of escapades of boys of his day, his speech not being exactly the orthodox reminiscences of an old gent to the rising generation.
Obit. Charles Curtis who went to Australia 1867, was made archdeacon of Hastings and Vicar of Kempsey, Warden of the Bush Brotherhood at Bellbrook in 1923. OW John Wellington now a missionary at Tai An in China. A D Ward left Western telegraph and enrols at Sandhurst.
From Mar 16 to 23 , school sports on the new field, in bitterly cold weather. K Joyner new record in 100 yds and I Lucas in High Jump. Derby House won with 166 pts, Richmond 100 pts, School 44 pts. The School tug-of-war team beat the Old Winburnians by 2 pulls to 1.
Picture of 1926 Athletic Shield Winners

John Croft Airey M.C. M.A.1935 total 199 boys.

Picture of Rubgy 15

New Buildings constructed on north side of playground. Contained 3 form rooms, a Chemistry and a Physics lab, cloakrooms, toilet and boiler room. It had the comfort of central heating, unlike the main school with its stoves and fireplaces

Cadet Corps win the Lucas-Tooth Shield for two years.

Becomes a voluntarily controlled School under the Ministry of Education.
Picture of 1946 Soccer team.

Picture of Boxing Team

Picture of football team

J D Neal M.A.

First girls admitted

Second floor added to the New Buildings, providing 4 classrooms, an art room and a reference library.

Picture of the Tennis Cup Winners

Winburnian no 128 prints pictures of girls in the school. Picture of Lunch in Big School, with girls
and boys and girls together

Picture of Cricket Team.

Picture of Hockey Team.

Denys Dorrien Whitmore J.P. B.A.