Dean Close Foundation History Timeline

Maths, Business and Economics Department.

The Day House Village.

The Poppy Cloister.

The formation of Dean Close Foundation. 

St John's on-the-Hill acquisition. 

Remembering ODs who lost their lives in World War I.

The Carducci Quartet.

Arrival of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum at Dean Close Preparatory School.

The New Pavilion.

First visit to Nyakatukura School.

The opening of Brook Court.

The Bacon Theatre.

The Music School.

The Art School. 

The New Theatre.

The Edwards Building.

The Centenary Year celebrations. 

Christopher Turner arrives at Dean Close with his wife, Lucia.

The first day house Field opened.

Crater pitch, as it became known after the bomb that fell on Big Field.

Edward Ellam with Heller Nicholls, the Music Director, on the Big Field 22nd July.

Midshipman Stephen Mercer-Wilson in the Second World War.

Hugh Elder and his wife Mary in what was then the Headmaster's garden with Ross the dog.

The Open Air Theatre under construction.

The Temporary Chapel.

Brooke attempting the high jump in 1898.

The Decanian magazine.

The Deacon Clock.

The first whole school photograph.

The original school building when it opened in 1886.

The Laying of the Cornerstone.