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WAR MEMORIAL WINDOW ORIGINALLY IN THE SCHOOL HALL,
MAYFIELD ROAD - DESIGNED BY ALFRED WILKINSON, A FORMER PUPIL
Correspondence from Mark Wilkinson, Andreas Christou and the
Editor
Dear Mark Wilkinson
As Andreas has written to you on the 3rd October 2014, I am
aware of his response and of the Order of Service for the War
Memorial Window dedicated on the 19th February, 1950. This
WINDOW, as Andreas mentioned, was located in the Parish
Church of Hornsey at the bottom of Cranley Gardens, in Park
Road around 1983. If my memory serves me well, I went to the
Parish Church before the closure of the Stationers' Company's
School with the Headmaster, Stan Read at that time to see the
Window positioned in the Parish Church.
Susequently, the Annual Carol Service that the Stationers'
Company's School held annually, was revived by the Old
Stationers' Association (OSA) a few years after closure to
coincide with a Dedication of the Memorial Window in the
Parish Church. This Service of Dedication was the impetus for
an OSA Carol Service which has taken place ever since for at
least ten years.
At the Dedication of the Window in the Parish Church, the
then former Headmaster, Robert Baynes wrote introductory
noters for the Booklet that was prepared for the occasion. The
cover of this booklet had a photograph of the Memorial Window,
copied from an original produced as a sheet with explanation of
the Window before the Memorial service that took place in the
School Hall on the 19th February 1950. The actual Magazine of
the Old Stationers' Association, 'The Old Stationer' also carried
this photogaph on the cover of the edition of the Magazine of
the time.
The Carol Service in the Parish Church of Hornsey this year is
particularly poignant as you will know, commemorates those Old
Stationers who died in the First World War, started 100 Years
ago and those Old Stationers who died in the Second World
War, 1944, that ended 70 Years ago.
We would welcome and members of the family to the Carol
Service on Sunday the 7th December at 4.00pm in Hornsey
Parish Church – St.Mary cum St.George's in Park Road at the
bottom of Muswell Hill, London N.10.
As for your Uncle, ALFRED LASHBROOK WILKINSON,
born 14th October, 1899, perhaps you could let me know when
he died. Could you please let me know some details of
S.E.GORSKI? However, I met ALFRED WILKINSON, when
Alfred visited Stationers' Company's School, many years ago.
You may have some information when Alfred attended
Stationers'.
Yours sincerely
Geraint Pritchard
Hello Geraint
mark wilkinson (markwilkinson86@gmail.com)
28th November 2014
Thanks for writing. Thank you for the invite to the Carol Service
at Hornsey Parish Church on 7th December, but I won't be able
to visit at this time'
You asked about Alfred Wilkinson's date of death. That was the
25th March 1994 at Dovercourt, Harwich. He had lived there
since the 1960s. You also asked about S.E.Gorski. All I do know
is that on a wall of Alfred's house, prior to it being cleared and
sold, were two oil paintings of trees with S.E.Gorski's signature
in deep red paint. They had been hanging in the same place
since at least 1970.
You mention Muswell Hill which made me check on Alfred's
works in that area. He has windows in St. Michael's Muswell
Hill (1940) and the great East Window of St. James (1952).
Another couple of snippets of information about Alfred.He was
born in Germany. He was at Stationers' from 1911-1916. He
came first in a Senior Handicap Race (over 14s). When he left
school aged 17 he was a Lance Corporal in the School Cadet
Force and a member of the signalling station.
Later he studied at St. Martin's School of Art and worked with
his father, Horace, as a stained glass artist at their studio at 101
Gower Street. He became a Fellow of the Society of Master
Glass-Painters in 1935. In 1965 he was secretary of that Society.
I live at Autumn Lodge, Moulton Lane, Boughton,
Northampton, NN2 8RF.
I would be pleased to have a copy of the documents you
mention for our family archive.
Sincerely
Mark
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