Loretto by
Pete, on Flickr
I can't remember how I arranged to do this series - I think it must have been through my old Art teacher, there was no sort of vetting or rules imposed. The major change since '79 had been the introduction of girls to the sixth form and I think their boarding house might have been out of bounds. Otherwise I could come and go as I pleased for the week I spent on this. I don't think I had thought through an approach to take.
The above reminds me of a day in 1977. At the end of the Summer term it had been a thing to drink on the last nights. Someone had been caught bringing alcohol into school the previous day and it was announced that there would be an amnesty for anyone that handed in any alcohol by 6 that evening after that the penalty would be expulsion. Instead bottles and cans appeared from under floorboards and other hiding places and were consumed, by mid-afternoon half the school were smashed.
there's an album of the school shots
here