The best of St. Trinians

Back to school with the best of St. Trinians . . . 

'EUNICE! HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU TAKE THE BAND OFF FIRST!'

LILLIPUT, APRIL 1951
(RONALD SEARLE, BACK TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND OTHER
UGLY MOMENTS, LONDON: MACDONALD, 1951, PAGE 50;
RONALD SEARLE, THE CURSE OF ST TRINIAN'S, LONDON:
PAVILION BOOKS, 1993, PAGE 49
EXHIBITED: 'THE ILLUSTRATORS. THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1837-2015',
NOVEMBER 2015 - JANUARY 2016, NO 361)

  'Eunice, dear- aren't we rather muddling our patron saints?'

"And this is Rachel - our Head Girl"

"But Miss Merryweather, you said we could bring our pets back with us" 

"Cleaner's getting slack. Horsefall . . ."
(Lilliput 1952 Oct/Nov)

 "... and a pair of knuckledusters, and some scent, and a hammer ..."
(Lilliput 1951 6 Nov)

'Parents' Day'
(Lilliput NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1951, PAGE 39


 

Cricket

With summer almost gone let's look at Searle's depiction of a typically English summer activity - cricket.

Punch magazine May 1956

'Jolly Losers' Holiday magazine April 1958

'The Green Sward' 

News Chronicle, London, 'Saturday Sketchbook' 24 July 1954;

Ronald Searle, Merry England, Etc, London: Perpetua Books, 1956, Pages 58 and 59