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The quadrangle, St. Edward's school, Mercury Gardens, in about 1958.1
The quadrangle, St. Edward's school, Mercury Gardens, in about 1958.1

On wall on the far side of the quadrangle, to the right of the central window, you can just make out a statuette.  This is of a boy in 18th century charity school dress, and is one of a pair - the other, a girl, presumably being hidden behind the post to the left of the window.  Beneath the window is what appears to be a commemoration stone - possibly that for the opening of the buildings in 1935.

The original photograph is mounted on a card signed by Dr Frederick Davis, headmaster from 1946 to 1958, and is believed to have been to commemorate his retirement.

1 Reproduced by kind permission of Iain Rowland.
 

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