Bolton School Former Pupils
100 Objects
The 100 Objects Project aims to celebrate the places and objects that best typify life at Bolton School.
Nominations for the 100 Objects were taken during the 2012-13 academic year and a full list can be seen below.
Voting for the ‘Top Ten’ Object continued throughout the 2014-15 academic year, and the final list, announced at the two Grand Reunion assemblies on Saturday 25th September, is as follows:
| 1 | Three Kings from Persian Lands |
| 2 | The Grey Book |
| 3 | The Carol Services in the two Divisions |
| 4 | Tarmac and Fairy Liquid |
| 5 | The Christmas Angels |
| 6 | The Deportment Girdle |
| 7 | The Great Halls |
| 8= | GD Peggy Purses with the School Crest |
| 8= | The School Song – 40 Years On |
| 8= | The Sergeants |
If the list of 100 Objects has prompted happy memories of School, we would love to hear them. Please share your memories and photographs with us by emailing development@boltonschool.org, and we will record them for posterity in our digital ‘Memory Book’, at the ‘Memories of School’ section of the School website.
The 100 Objects, as voted by Bolton School Alumni:
| The Chained Library | The portraits of the Headmistresses |
| The Monitors’ Boards in B Corridor, Boys’ Division | School Dinners and the Dinner Ladies |
| The Sergeants | The School Crests |
| The School Song – 40 Years On | The red sandstone buildings |
| The Language Room flags | The Distinction / Excellent Book |
| The blue clock in the Hall, used for exams | The train set from model railway club |
| The white gloves | Three Kings from Persian Lands |
| Old style form group dining | Fire watching |
| The Boltonian | The toaster from the Sixth Form Common Room |
| The Monitors’ ties | The Direct Grant, Assisted Place and Bursary Schemes |
| Trek Camp | ‘Tarmac and Fairy Liquid’ – Ginger sponge with lemon and lime sauce |
| The Head Girls’ book | The School Prayer |
| The McClean spoons | The Grey Book |
| School photographs | The Great Halls in the two Divisions |
| The old Scout Hut at Woodlands | The Deportment Girdle |
| The homework planner | The velour hat (pictured) |
| Speech Day | Miss Higginson’s bookshelf |
| The Organs in the two Divisions | Sports jerseys and caps |
| The Headmaster’s Garden, Saxelby Gateway and Memorial Cross, and Sundial | The wooden crate used to carry provisions on trek camps |
| The old Beech House | Robin Cottage |
| The Dining Halls in the two Divisions | The Honours Boards (pictured) |
| Vimto from the Tuck Shop | The yardstick – “used for measuring the distance between girls and boys and also girls’ skirts” |
| The Turret Library | The old Swimming Pool |
| The Levels | A jar of smoke from the Master’s Common Room |
| The Millennium Ketch – Tenacity of Bolton | Assemblies in the Great Halls |
| Pink gingham summer dresses | The Centre Quad |
| The Hymn Book | The School cap |
| The old tuck shop in the cottage by the Levels | The bust of Lord Leverhulme |
| Sitting at top table with Miss Higginson | Cautley |
| The Tillotson Pavillion | The School Song – If God Built not the House |
| The ‘swoosh’ as we all stood up at Speech Day | The Carol Service |
| The Undercroft | The miniature theatre in the East Wing |
| The bell rung to signify Grace at the start of lunch | Beauty and order points given weekly for form room tidiness |
| The lecterns in the Great Halls | The Christmas Post |
| Patterdale Hall | The Christmas Angels in the Great Hall |
| The Indoor shoes | The pay phones outside the two main entrances |
| The Prefects’ gowns | The window poles |
| The pig sties | A memento from the original football pavilion at Turton |
| The old desks with lift up lids and ink pots | The parquet floor tiles |
| The smell of polish on the first day of term | The Dining Room tables and benches |
| The Pill Box | Good friends and laughter |
| The Memorial Staircase | Chairs from the Great Halls |
| Christmas lunch | Colours Badges |
| The Coronation Lanterns | The Bolton School dinner service |
| The red lights outside the Heads’ Studies | A lacrosse stick |
| Lord Leverhulme’s portrait | The Gymnasium in each Division |
| The Centre Arch and Clock Tower | Playing football on ‘the Quad’ at break |
| Peggy purses with the School badge, to put money in (pictured) | Badges: House, Prefect etc |
| Green Eurythmics tunic and knickers | The OBA President’s Chain of Office |
| The rugby tour of South Africa in 2008 in memory of Danny and Johnny | The underground air raid shelter |