@abingdon_school @abingdonschool @abingdonschool linkedin.com/school/abingdonschool The Abingdon Foundation, Park Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1DE Edited by Julia Cooke - [email protected] 01235 521563 Out of the Past Abingdon Radiohead’s Thom Yorke OA 1982, together with the artist Stanley Donwood, have collaborated on the band’s artwork for over thirty years. The exhibition, This Is What You Get, currently at the Ashmolean (until 11 January 2026), features original paintings for album covers, digital compositions, etchings, unpublished drawings and notebooks with lyrics. Thom York and Stanley Donwood (photo by Julian Broad, courtesy of TIN MAN HAT) This is what you get Then and now Occasionally the archives receive photographs from strangers. Last term, Dr Anthony Parr, the great-great-grandson of John Creemer Clark, one-time Governor of Abingdon School and owner of Waste Court in the early twentieth-century, brought in some photographs of the house when his family lived there. On another occasion, we were sent a lovely postcard showing Park Lodge soon after it was built in 1897. Designed by the Arts and Crafts architect Harry Redfern OA (1871-1950), a caretaker and his family lived on the two floors to the right of the front door, and two masters in separate sets, one upstairs and one downstairs, to the left of the door. Waste Court from the west c1910 Waste Court & Austin House 2025 Waste Court billiard room c1910 Same view 2025 Park Lodge c1897 A memoir of captivity For all the razzmatazz surrounding VE Day, 8 May 1945, the Second World War was not over. The British Army was still actively engaged in the Far East where a number of OAs were Japanese prisoners-of-war. These included Terence Charley, OA 1933 (pictured), taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945. Fifty-nine years later, Charley presented the archives with a typescript of his captivity. The 140-page manuscript charts the brutality, humanity, dignity and squalor of his experience and is by turns savage, lyrical, erudite and wry as it charts the fragile friendships that grew up among the prisoners, the brutality of their daily existence and the exotic beauty of the tropical landscape. Visit: archives.abingdon.org.uk - Object 52 History of Abingdon School in 63 Objects Lieutenant Charley, Royal Artillery © Thom Yorke
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