In August 2017 I acquired a large photograph album and scrapbook from an online auction website after being found at a ‘local flea fair’. Originally it was was the property of Herbert Chiverton Meyrick of Apley Castle, Shropshire. He compiled it during his time as a pupil at Eton College and afterwards. It contains his photographs, drawings and cuttings as well as his Eton College leave notices, his punishment references, detention slips and other ephemera that he felt was significant enough to him for it to be kept. Read more here.
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