This page is K.E.S. Re-union:
revised 30/9/2011.
K.E.S.
“Class of ’51”
Reunions 2011
Sixty Years on:
The “Class of ’51” celebrates its Diamond Jubilee
1.
Lunch at the Athenaeum, 15th June 2011
2.
London Lunch, 9th August 2011
3.
Diamond Jubilee visit to School, 28th September 2011
1: Luncheon at the
Athenaeum
15th June 2011
By invitation
of Peter Lee, a dozen members of the “Class of ‘51”, accompanied by their
ladies, gathered for
luncheon in the
Picture Room of the Athenaeum Club at Waterloo Place, on the corner of Pall
Mall.
Here is
a selection of photographs taken on that occasion
The
Athenaeum Club in Waterloo Place. (To the left is a statue of Air Chief
Marshall Sir Keith Park (1892-1975).
The
Club was founded in 1824 and the building designed by Decimus
Burton. Over the porch is a gilded
statue of Pallas Athene and above her can be seen a
frieze which is a replica of the Elgin Marbles.
A
general view of the gathering in the Picture Room
(from
the left: Richard and Geraldine Berry,
Ralph Birch, Chris and Mike Barnsley, Peter Tyrer, Richard Mayou, Max Beran,
Alan Cowie at top right. Rodney
Cartwright is in the foreground).
Left: Richard Berry deep in
discussion
Right: Andrew and Ely Hornig,
with Roger Wilkins
Helen
and Peter Tyrer enjoy the occasion
Left: Richard Mayou in full flow
Right: Peter Lee welcomes the
guests to the Athenaeum
2: London Lunch, 9th
August 2011
Clive
Cooper, Richard Birch, John Beard, Andrew Hornig, Alan Cowie Ralph Birch
(almost hidden) and Richard Berry
at the
end of a lunch at a Turkish Restaurant off Wigmore
Street. Robert Darlaston was behind the
camera.
3: Diamond Jubilee visit
to School on 28th September 2011
Sixty Years (plus fifteen days) after we
all started at K.E.S. in 1951.
Our
party gathers on the Parade Ground, with the South Field beyond.
L-R: Mary and Roger Hughes, Phil Pardoe (with 1950s
vintage boater), Richard Birch (mostly hidden from view), Richard Berry, Simon
Lerwill (the School’s Development Director),
Jo and
Dick Green, Roger Wilkins
Left photo: On the Parade Ground: Barbara Darlaston, Brian Patterson, Roger
Wilkins, Phil and Erika Pardoe
Right
photo: In the Common Room: Andrew Hornig, Nick McCarty, Roger Hughes,
Richard Berry, Roger Marks (back to camera),
Peter Lee, Richard
Birch, Ian Knowles (back to camera)
Left: Andrew Hornig and Nick McCarty with Richard
Berry at the right.
Right: Pardoe, Berry and Patterson step smartly away
from the Main Door en route to lunch in the Dining Hall.
Dining Hall interior,
showing thee attractive window behind the “high table”.
In the 1950s behaviour
at school dinners were seldom so decorous (and the food was never so appetising)
Brian Patterson and the Tyrers Ian Knowles, Roger Marks, Geoff
Purkis and John Patrick
Cheerful line-up outside
the Main Door: formal photos in the 1950s
sadly lacked such a delightful feminine content!
(Gentlemen on view are Lee,
McCarty, Knowles, Birch, Wood, Tyrer, Pardoe, Millard, Beran, Patterson,
Cartwright, Purkis, Berry, Bickerton, and Green.)
Left: The Chapel’s south front.
Right: Derek Benson, Ian Knowles, Peter Lee and
Ginny Hiller outside the north door, with the swimming pool beyond (now under
cover!)
The group gathers in the
Chapel, ready for a lecture by the school’s archivist, Alison Wheatley, who is
standing towards the left of the picture.
Inside the Library: the Librarian extols the virtues of her
domain to Messrs Wood, Tyrer, Patterson, Benson, Wilkins, Lee, Knowles and
Berry.
In the Chief Master’s
Study, once a sanctum into which few went with any excess of confidence.
Left: A motto above the Chief Master’s desk: was its author a business associate of
Machiavelli? The Chief Master of our
day would not have admitted that there were failures to hide!
Right: Ian Knowles (standing), Max Beran, Andrew
Hornig, Richard Birch and Roger Marks.
Andrew Hornig, Richard
Birch and Roger Marks enjoy listening to the Chief Master, John Claughton.
Finally, part of the
K.E.S. magic: an autumn afternoon on
the South Field. Is the centre of
Birmingham really less than three miles up the road?
Other
pages which may be of interest:
Memories
of K.E.S. in the 1950s, plus impressions of a school tour in 2006 are at: KingEdwardsSchool.htm
Photographs
of present-day
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