Thirty Years On! A Private View of Public Schools

by Mark Draisey

Taken at a time just prior to major changes in the boarding house conditions and the general modernisation of facilities at many of the schools, this supremely evocative collection of photographs is a unique insight into the life within twenty-five of Britain’s leading boy’s public schools just before they changed forever. Images of austere dormitories and bleak bathrooms, beagling on the moors and Sunday Chapel, cadet training and early morning rowing, will remind thousands of Spartan but more certain times when tradition and eccentricity mingled with educational excellence to produce generations of boys destined to succeed.

Schools featured include: Ampleforth College • Charterhouse • Christ’s Hospital School • Clifton College • Eton College • Fettes College • Haileybury • Harrow School • Hurstpierpoint College • The King’s School, Canterbury • Lancing College • Loretto School • Marlborough College • Monmouth School • Pangbourne College • Radley College • Repton School • Rugby School • Sedbergh School • Sherborne School • Shrewsbury School • Stowe School • Wellington College • Westminster School • Winchester College

144 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2014