Photograph of Twyford School, Twyford
Taken about 1870
Twyford School is a boarding preparatory school in the village of Twyford about three miles south of Winchester. The Vicar of Twyford with the assistance of his nephew had run a school at the vicarage around the first years of the nineteenth century, which was relocated to its current site in about 1810.
One of its pupils was Thomas Hughes who based the first part of 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' on his experiences here in the 1830s. The nineteenth century curriculum included the inevitable quantities of Greek and Latin, but there were also football and cricket matches against teams such as Eton College Juniors.
The building seen here may be associated with the teaching staff, one of whom is seated on the right wearing a mortar board. The Headmaster in the 1860s and '70s was the Reverend L Wickham.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album entitled 'Hampshire Views of Churches, Country Houses and Public Buildings'.
