I have been a member of the “Alleyn Old Boys“ club since leaving the school in 1960. With the introduction of young ladies into the school some years ago the title had to be changed to “The Edward Alleyn Club”! The annual dinner is one of several splendid opportunities to meet up with former school friends and their wives. This year the event was not held in the school, but in the prestigious Old Hall in Lincoln’s Inn which was built during the reign of Henry VII in 1490. The hall was the centre of the Inn, where “benchers, barristers and students ate, met and held their moots and revels”!
An excellent meal was followed by a humorous speech by Dr Gary Savage, the current school headmaster. Regrettably, unlike our functions where a time limit is set, the speech that followed rambled on for some 30 minutes! Sandra and our friends pictured here made a swift exit by way of the staff area before the next speaker and the “moots and revels”!
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