Tom Oxley recalls: "What happened next was probably my proudest moment. I’d noticed the damaged banner through the open door of a storeroom nearly opposite Gover’s study. I organized a group of about twenty people and we smuggled the banner out of the cloisters and walked quickly with the banner between us all the way to the street behind the Fives Court where the final photograph was taken.
I am ashamed to admit that I can’t remember everyone’s names but from left to right stand: John Olsen, ?, ?, John Lumby Bishop, Bob Fearnley, me and ? Having taken the photograph we successfully walked all the way back to the cloisters in the same formation; and we managed to replace the banner in the storeroom without being seen. How we achieved this I have no idea but we did, and I am very proud of it.
Some of us were punished but some teachers including McNeil Watson bought photographs from me of the banner on the tower and also the picture of some of the participants in the operation. John Lumby Bishop told me recently that he’d found out later that Gover had secretly been quite impressed. However, that was not his attitude at the time: he could hardly condone such risky and dangerous behaviour by pupils at the school…"
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Bob Fearnley says that the missing names from left to right are: Alwyn Gilbert, Roger Braithwaite and Chris Revett. Thank you, Bob. [Tom Oxley 2024-07-03 08:12:29]
The full line up then is John Olsen, Alwyn Gilbert, Roger Braithwaite, John Lumby Bishop, Bob Fearnley, Tom Oxley and Chris Revett [webmaster 2024-07-09 00:35:45]