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A 1960 photo taken by Mike Thorogood from the middle of what was then
the athletics track, looking north across the area now occupied by the
Sports Block. The water tower is in the distance. Within a few years a
classroom block was built in this area that was initially used mainly by
CGS students. The line of large oak trees was used during biology
lessons to study the growth of green algae on their trunks. |
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Staff houses and running track in 1963 (photo by Jim Gathercole). The
Staff houses are beyond the original athletics running track - note the
severe slope. By the following year this would be moved to the "Jungle"
area at the bottom of the park where the ground was flat. The huts
housing the science labs are just visible to the right behind the trees. |
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Another Jim Gathercole photo, this being a view of the path that leads
from the back of the sports block through to the park. This was used
mainly by the boys when exiting from the changing rooms to get to the
sports fields and back afterwards. It would be while running through
here that the Rugby 1st XV would perform the chant, "Zigger, Zagger..."
This would ideally be timed so that the players would exit from the
trees, at the far end, just as the chant finished. |