Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Happy Christmas
Christmas Bells
Term has finished, with all the Christmas events the end of term brings, this year’s ‘Bootham’ magazine has just been posted, and the school is quiet. From my office I can hear the Minster clock chime. So it seems appropriate to end this Christmas series with a drawing of ‘The Christmas Bells’ from the ‘Extra Christmas Number’ of The Observer from 1873.
The editor finishes his introduction to the issue by “wishing Contributors, Artists, Poets and Readers
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
20 Bootham, December 11th 1873”
140 years later, I would like to send the same wishes to everyone reading this.
- The Observer, Vol XII, p735. The image is signed SPT, almost certainly Silvanus Philips Thompson, who was a pupil at Bootham School between 1858 and 1867, and taught at the school between 1870 and 1875. He went on to become a well known physicist and there is a blue plaque with his name on Bootham.
- 20 Bootham was later renumbered as 51 Bootham.