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Ad Unum Omnes

As we look back and consider,
In the years that are to come,
All the benefits we gathered
Severally from school and home,
We shall have our School tradition
As our guide and talisman.

With head and heart and voice,
We strive to show our praise
For the spirit of our School:
Ad Unum Omnes.

Those who follow in our footsteps
and this brotherhood maintain,
We may never see their faces,
We may never know their name;
They'll be in the same tradition
And will carry on the flame.

With head and heart and voice,
We strive to show our praise
For the spirit of our school:
Ad Unum Omnes.

From the school magazine 1958
 

South Face of School and Admin block 1957

South Face of School 1957

Looking up to Tower Block and stair shafts
 

Looking down plaza to Dining Room entrance, stair shafts on right
 

Looking from School block over grounds
to Upper Tulse Hill Road
 

The gyms were dangerous enough, can you imagine what could have happened
in a swimming pool!
 

View from THS school block over the City
c1958/9
 

The assembly hall 1957

Tulse Hill was named after the Tulse family and the name is first recorded about 1650.  The astronomer Sir William Huggins (1824-1910) had a large observatory attached to his house in Tulse Hill. In 1866, from that observatory, he made the first spectroscopic observation of a nova

6th Form tie - 1960s         Upper School tie - 1960s

School Blazer

These pic's thanks to B Morrissey

Wren House Cap - thanks to Barry Miles

Bob Morrisey, who was a THS pupil in the second half of the 60s' well remembers the  first day of each school year, and the intake of first Years where at least one parents didn’t understand and sent their child to THS in short trousers.  The poor kid would be harassed for the rest of their time at THS.  And then, towards the end of the first week, the playground would be covered in balls of blowing black fluff which had been worn off the new kid’s blazers.

In 1959, M.J. Nyhan, Dickens Housemaster, reported that "It is pleasing to note that less than a dozen boys are without School uniform".

Thomas's presented themselves as Outfitters to the School offering Bespoke Tailoring linked  to Exclusive Craftsmanship

Do you remember "Thomas's" at Herne Hill and at Clapham South?  That is where Mum and Dad bought our gear - or they popped down to the Co-Op in Brixton, near the Town Hall, bought the blazer and picked up the divvie
 

The School Badge and Motto -  "does anyone know for sure how the badge came about?"

Mike Stevens thinks it's a variation on the Borough of Lambeth arms. The Lamb carrying a cross might have come from there.

William Blake, poet, expressed his vision of London in a lyric forming a prelude to second part of "Jerusalem" and wrote :  "Her Little-ones ran on the fields, The Lamb of God among them seen.."

Who knows what connections were being made around THS by education planners in 1955 and 1956!!!! We certainly ended up with a Blake House.

School Motto:  Ad Unum Omnes -  (All for One/ One for All)

Courtesy of Wikipedia