Grosvenor Park House was later opened as a school which we looked upon (and down on) as a rival. The boys wore a silver shield on their caps; when we met them we used to whistle or sing "Who are these like stars appearing?" They must have laughed, as in those days we wore a cap with a big red star all over the top!

.Among our Leyton lot was Bob Howe who, I think, went to Christ's Hospital and later became a singer. He and his sister Cissy, a High School girl, made a number of gramophone records before the 1914-1918 war. He sang at our last dinner in 1914. No one seems to know what became of him.
We thought our playground was large, but by modern standards it was like a handkerchief. We used to play a game called ''Bull-Dog" which most of the chaps joined in. It consisted of two bases at opposite corners and a chosen few players in the centre.
The game was to run from one base to the other without being caught. If caught we were crowned with three pats (?) on the head to a doggerel verse and joined the catchers. If you could keep your hands on your head crowning was impossible, so it was a common sight to see half a dozen chaps, hanging on to one to try to pull his hands off. When too many were out there was a cry of "All in !" and we started all over again. There were a lot of points-such as rescue squads, etc. which I haven't space to go into; it was rough, but good fun. Another game was "Jump Willie Wagtail"-a leap-frog game played against a wall. I wonder if anyone remembers it?
In the Chemistry Lab. there was a glass-fronted cupboard built into the wall where sulphuretted hydrogen was made. After the experiment was finished the gas was let out at the back. Did it 'hum'? Thousands of bad eggs!
Talking of smells, does anyone remember Gillard's Pickle factory opposite? I never smell pickles without thinking of the Autumn Term when we inhaled pickles all day.
One afternoon certain of the fifth or sixth forms, gave a concert and those who liked to buy a ticket for a small sum went. I think it was on a school afternoon but might have been after four o'clock. It was very amusing. I can't remember the cast except that it included Temple, and no doubt Griggs who was pianist. I had a photograph of the party; I wonder if anyone else has a copy? It would be interesting in The Monovian.
The morning after Mr. Gladstone died we all assembled in the Big Room, heard a discourse on him, then had to write an essay about him. At other times we assembled for a Spelling Bee or Mental Arithmetic (which I loathed !).
My word! When I read of all the activities in the present school, and compare them with ours! We didn't know we were alive. There was no sports field attached to the school. There used to be football and cricket at Wadham Lodge, but not being interested in either I had no social life at school. How different are things now.
It might be of interest to compare our school life (as I can remember it) with today's. On assembling the roll was called; we answered "Adsrum": then a hymn and prayers were taken by Mr Allpass or Mr. Spivey, after which we dispersed to our respective form rooms.
Our form master took us in nearly all subjects, so we mainly had the teaching of one master.
We, that is the Lower Fifth (of which I was an ornament or otherwise), used to go to Mr. Prowse for geometry and chemistry. We went into the Lecture Room under 'Beaky ' for drawing (don't I remember the cones, cubes and spheres!). Physics was always taken by the master of the three lower forms. Woodwork was taught by a Mr. Ingleby, one of the best. For P.T. we had an instructor from outside the school.
Does anyone remember the commercial form? We were supposed to train for a business career. Same hope ! I was one of the 'bright ones' in it. I heard it was abolished soon after I left school. I could, recount a lot, but least said about that the better !

H. M. LANSDELL.