The Rugby Racket

@CLCArchive fantastic picture you should join us with with these :-)

The Close and Butterfield Chapel 2016. #SchoolWinter

The cover of The Meteor in 1970. Read the full issue rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

This week is all about. We're looking forward to finding out what it was like in school in the winter months.

@sps_kayton I haven't seen one. Might have a look in the natural history society records.

@PFdn_Archives I discovered this one in an album from 1902 the photo below shows some more birds in an aviary.

In reply to St Paul's school archivist asking if had a parrot. We don't know but the school did keep birds at one point. twitter.com/RugSch_Heritag…

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The Reply to the "Mouldy Bug"

Wonder if anyone else has had letters from insects in their natural history collections? A "Mouldy Bug" once wrote to The Meteor in February 1876 and received a response in the March issue.

@sps_kayton 😂 belive it or not at one point in the late nineteenth century the school had a pet cockatoo. I will post the photo later.

Photograph of a boys study I believe it is one that was in school house as the description states it was formally occupied by the author of Tom Brown's School Days who was in School House under Thoma…