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Fragmentary fragment of Wimseyfic
Missing scene without much of a start or finish - how does Harriet end up, of all places, with Peter at the Eton and Harrow match?
Harriet is fortunate she attended in 1933 - it might not have been quite as awful as 1932, which was covered by the Guardian.
"This morning I was standing near the carriages at the side of the pavilion. I had omitted to come to the match in top-hat, and an overpowering dowager bore down on me. And she demanded of me imperiously, "A match card, please!". Quite naturally she took me for some hireling of the back stairs."
This photograph from 1937 is deservedly notorious, though ironically the three working-class boys would live longer and happier lives than the Harrow boys (moral: do not take your son to India without having him vaccinated against diphtheria).
(Incidentally, diphtheria is a brilliant example of how well vaccination works, being all but wiped out within the UK within a decade after the introduction of routine vaccination in children. While we're at it, lets raise a glass to the end of rinderpest. Query to any Anglo-Saxonists, is this Archbishop Wulfstan's orfcwealm? But I digress.)
And finally ending the introduction, have a Pathé newsreel from 1930.
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Harriet is fortunate she attended in 1933 - it might not have been quite as awful as 1932, which was covered by the Guardian.
"This morning I was standing near the carriages at the side of the pavilion. I had omitted to come to the match in top-hat, and an overpowering dowager bore down on me. And she demanded of me imperiously, "A match card, please!". Quite naturally she took me for some hireling of the back stairs."
This photograph from 1937 is deservedly notorious, though ironically the three working-class boys would live longer and happier lives than the Harrow boys (moral: do not take your son to India without having him vaccinated against diphtheria).
(Incidentally, diphtheria is a brilliant example of how well vaccination works, being all but wiped out within the UK within a decade after the introduction of routine vaccination in children. While we're at it, lets raise a glass to the end of rinderpest. Query to any Anglo-Saxonists, is this Archbishop Wulfstan's orfcwealm? But I digress.)And finally ending the introduction, have a Pathé newsreel from 1930.
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Without further ado...
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