The EGS Photo Project

Revision of 16 March, 2002

The all-school photos taken in 1958, 1961, and 1964 have been scanned by John Trace. The numbers of people on the respective photos are 671, 657, and 670. The original photos were in a roll, about 42 inches long. For easier handling on the Web, each photo has been divided into 4 pieces - Left, Mid-Left, Mid-Right, and Right (each therefore representing about ten and a half inches of the photo original). There are, then, 12 quarter-photos - 4 for each of the 3 years. A number of people have been busy trying to identify the names of the people. I have had names sent to me by the following: John Trace, Sue Bullen (formerly Howarth), Albert Beckett, John Barlow and his wife Susan (formerly Gunn), John Hilton, Pete Nelson, Kevin Priestnall, Valerie Pickstone (now Lomax), Julie Cade (formerly Beckett), Jack Dodd, Phil Williams, John Shepherd, Susan Webb (now Sherlock), John Booth, Kevin Sanigar, and Cathy Nock. If you can help, please read the 'Explanation' below and send me your wisdom.

Explanation

Each photo has 9 or 10 rows of people, and on the quarter-photos these rows have been numbered in big lettering near where a row begins on a photo (if possible). ODD-numbered row numbers (numbering starts from the BACK row) are RED , as are the person-numbers (smaller size) within the row. EVEN-numbered row numbers are GREEN , as are the person-numbers within the row. Also on the quarter-photo is a big heading telling which photo it is (for example, 'EGS '58 Photo, Left Portion'). Sometimes rows are not continuous, and sometimes shortened, so not every row will necessarily show on a particular quarter-photo. Look for the big row numbers at the left hand edge of the quarter-photo to guide you. WITHIN the rows the people are numbered. Every so often along a row you will see a small number directly on the shirt/jacket of a person. Where there is no number shown (we didn't want the photo too cluttered), the numbering sequence continues, as you can prove to yourself by counting along to the next numbered person in the row. Sometimes the rows wobble a bit, or peter out, so you need to check a particular person relative to the marked numbers within his or her row. Easy as long as you're careful !! There is also a bit of overlap between adjacent quarter-photos but this has no effect on the numbering. One final thing to note: people whose names are known are marked with a small purple badge.

A Spreadsheet indexes the photos for a particular year. For each year photo I have links to TWO spreadsheets - one in Microsoft Excel format and one in Adobe Acrobat format. Thus, for example, SP58_XLS is an index to all the four quarter-photos for 1958 in Microsoft Excel format, SP58_PDF is the index in Portable Document Format (also called Adobe Acrobat format). Each format has its advantages and disadvantages, and that's why I let you choose the format that suits you best. Let me briefly explain important ideas about each format:

Examining an XLS link If you click on the XLS link with the left mouse button, the file MAY display in your own computer's Excel program (assuming you have it, of course). If it doesn't, then you will need to instruct your browser to open the Excel program whenever you click on a XLS file. You do this in Netscape through the 'Options' - ''General Preferences' pull-down menus. If you click on the XLS link with the RIGHT mouse button you will be presented with a dialog box that let's you save the spreadsheet file to you own computer disk so that you can examine it in a more leisured way (still using Excel, of course).

Examining an PDF link If you are not comfortable with the Excel format, I have also put the spreadsheets in 'Portable Document Format' (the link is marked SP58_PDF, for example. This format, also often called Adobe Acrobat format, displays the spreadsheet so it looks like a printed page and is less complicated to handle than the Excel format. Recent browsers (like Netscape or Microsoft Explorer) have a built in capability to handle PDF files, so you may just see the display come up like magic. If it doesn't, you need to get yourself a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader program. It's free, and can be downloaded at many places on the Web, most directly on my own page, but also (and with clear instructions) from the Adobe Acrobat Download site.