Q News from the Archives
Suzanne Foster, Winchester College Archivist has provided extracts from the
Q News in the 1930s along with some photos from the 1920s
The Quirister, issue 1, March 1935.
edited by AW Griggs, assisted by HAG Blackwell
Foundation of team system.
During the Christmas term, it was decided
to start a team system in the school. The two
teams formed were named after William of
Wykeham and Cardinal Beaufort.
Colours chosen were those of the
school. Blue and red for Wykeham and
Beaufort respectively. Points are awarded
for schoolwork, conduct and games
(shooting, table tennis, football, cricket and
athletics) and the winning team holds the
championship shield for one term. necessary to maintain a cinema. These
included the projectors, lighting and heating
plant, and the organ sound chamber.
Educational visits
During the last two terms we have been able
to visit several places of interest. On leave
out day in the Christmas term we visited
Southampton to view the Docks, including
the floating dock. Next term we hope to pay several more such
visits to places of interest.
Our last visit to date was to the Co-Operative
Society’s bakery, where we were shown
the ingenious machines which produce the
loaves so familiar to everyone.
In each case we found the owners or
authorities extremely kind and ready to do
everything possible to satisfy our curiosity.
Then a visit was paid to the Regal Cinema,
where Mr Cuthbert explained the working
of the Compton Organ, and gave us an
impression of its powers of imitation.
Later we journeyed to Eastleigh to make
a tour of the locomotive engineering
works. Here we saw all the processes of
manufacture, from the initial patterns to the
finished engine.
Messrs Warrens’ Printing works was the
object of our next visit. Here we saw the
making of type, printing a newspaper,
book-binding etc.
A second visit was paid to the Regal to
inspect the numerous pieces of apparatus
The Q News 1935
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