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The photographs etc shown on the linked pages below (over 180 at the  most recent count)   form part of a larger collection available on the school's pages of the Friends Reunited website:   http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/  On the Association's site click on the arrows at the foot of  the images to view the previous/next in the series.  NB:  to ensure that all the supplementary text associated with a number of photographs is fully visible we recommend that you use the latest version of one of the following browsers:  Internet Explorer (v7) or Mozilla Firefox (v3).

We hope you find this selection of interest, especially the content of the Pupils and annual School Photos pages - after all, you may come across a picture of yourself!  If you have any further suggestions/material for inclusion please let us know by using the Contact form. (TH is particularly interested to know whether The Thorntonian survived after 1963, the last year for which he has a copy, and if so when it ceased publication; and also whether  there are any other whole-school photographs available, ie, of the "panoramic" variety, which could be added to the site.)

Please note that, except for the School Photos, the images on each gallery page are in no particular date order.  Also, we've tried to maintain consistency in allocating them to each of the main categories shown below, but inevitably there are a few, particularly in Activities and Pupils, which could properly make an appearance in more than one.  

Some of the images that contain text, such as magazine or newspaper articles, may be difficult to read in their entirety.  More legible copies can be obtained by right-clicking anywhere on them and selecting the "save as" or "print" option.

Also of interest to OTs will be this extract, available in two formats as below, from the currently unpublished autobiography of Eric Gilder, 1926-31, composer of the original school song, who died in 2000 (see also the School Song page).   As indicated, his schooldays spanned the final years of Battersea County School and the opening of HTS on the Clapham site.  Eric's  daughter, Paula, kindly supplied TH with a handwritten draft, from which he was able to prepare this typescript version in 2006. 
 
   Eric_Gilder_autobiographical_notes.htm         Eric_Gilder_autobiographical_notes.pdf

CB, TH

  
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