Allan Hailstone was a pupil at Bablake from 1950 to 1957. Before the days of a digital camera in every pocket he took his 35mm camera to school almost every day and has contributed to these archives before but several rolls of film lay in his attic until late 2007 when he scanned them to be included here as a valuable record of times past. Should you see an error, can fill in some blanks or you have other pictures to contribute please contact chascook@sympatico.ca

Answer provided by John Baldock: "To verify the lens equation 1/u + 1/v = 1/f, by the method of no-parallax"
He gets the good memory prize.

Roger Hargreaves contributed this programme which
features many boys seen in our collection. Late congratulations.

Note the date verification and the elbow fashion statement

Perhaps he is practising the School Song?

Paul Wylie writes: "John Perkins was not still at school when he died from the penicillin reaction.  I think that he was down from Imperial for the Christmas holidays, and went to a football match on Boxing Day where he caught a chill.  
He was 1 year ahead of me and I remember that I took time off from work to go to the funeral, so he must have left school."

Which reminds me. Daniells and Haines made a kayak in my
class in 1957. Does anyone remember that event?

Would Seaborne call this bullying? Allan assures me it
was just clean fun with Weaver's approval

"Bring those 'pictorial representations' to me boy."

"Lay on, Macduff, : And damn'd be him that first cries,
'Hold, enough!'". Or Weaver's revenge.

This one reminds me of "The History Boys". Aldridge and
I were the only staff members without a degree. I wore a gown for my Loughborough Diploma but he did not wear one.

Seaborne was not in Allan's shot. I could not resist inserting him