The Salopian no. 157 - Winter 2015
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54 OLD SALOPIAN NEWS<br />
Kit Oates (PH 2000-05) has a<br />
new exhibition running from 18th<br />
November until 6th January at Gallery<br />
101, Salvation Army International<br />
Headquarters, 101 Queen Victoria St,<br />
London, EC4V 4EH. Re:Generation is an<br />
exhibition of portraits of tenants from<br />
the South Kilburn housing estate, North<br />
West London. <strong>The</strong> estate is undergoing<br />
regeneration, placing its residents<br />
and the area in a transitional period.<br />
<strong>The</strong> images were originally installed<br />
on tower blocks in the area, which<br />
are due for demolition. This striking<br />
series of portraits captures the different<br />
generations living on the estate.<br />
Remembering the Queen’s visit to<br />
Shrewsbury, October 1952<br />
Max Emmerich (Rt 2008-10) is in his<br />
third and final year of clinical medicine<br />
at Oxford University, having spent his<br />
three pre-clinical years at Trinity College,<br />
Cambridge. He has just been awarded<br />
the Peter Fan Senior Scholarship by St<br />
John’s College for academic excellence<br />
throughout his time at medical school.<br />
He has also just won a £2,000 grant<br />
from the Oxford University Clinical<br />
Academic Graduate School to fund a<br />
ten-week stint as a visiting researcher at<br />
Harvard Medical School, where he will<br />
be working on mela<strong>no</strong>ma cancer stem<br />
cells (and see p55).<br />
Ali Webb (S Hill 2008-13) writes: “I’m<br />
currently working as a freelance filmmaker<br />
with Fulwell 73, a production<br />
company in Camden. I recently filmed<br />
a cycling documentary in the Canadian<br />
Rockies with some friends, raising<br />
money for two hospices. Three guys<br />
cycled 2000km from Calgary to Tofi<strong>no</strong><br />
and I’m currently editing the film which<br />
we hope will inspire others to live a life<br />
of adventure. Our website is<br />
www.tofi<strong>no</strong><strong>2015</strong>.com.”<br />
Just before the beginning of the<br />
Michaelmas term, the Marketing<br />
office at Shrewsbury was contacted<br />
by Gareth Owen, a journalist working<br />
for ITV Central News, asking for help<br />
with a feature he was putting together<br />
to mark the day on which the Queen<br />
became the longest reigning monarch<br />
in British history. Searching for a<br />
Midlands focus, he had come across<br />
some evocative Pathé news footage<br />
of the Queen’s visit to Shrewsbury<br />
School in October 1952 – her first<br />
visit to the region as Queen. Might<br />
the School be able to find someone<br />
who was there that day, and could he<br />
come and film an interview with them<br />
on the Queen’s Terrace?<br />
We were hugely grateful to David<br />
Longrigg (Ch 1949-54), Adrian Struvé<br />
and Jane Tupper, all of whom agreed<br />
at very short <strong>no</strong>tice to come and be<br />
interviewed – David Longrigg even<br />
travelling all the way from Oxford.<br />
He was 16 years old at the time of the<br />
Queen’s visit and recalled taking part in<br />
the whole school PE display on Central<br />
and playing football with the 1st XI on<br />
Top Common. Adrian Struvé had just<br />
begun his third year as a master at the<br />
School (he would remain here until his<br />
retirement in 1986) and recalled the<br />
excitement and sense of ho<strong>no</strong>ur felt by<br />
the entire school community.<br />
Jane Tupper is the daughter of A.E.<br />
Taylor, who was Housemaster of<br />
School House until his sudden death<br />
in March 1952, one month after the<br />
death of the Queen’s own father. Jane<br />
had returned from university to help<br />
her mother organise the lunch for the<br />
Queen and <strong>The</strong> Duke of Edinburgh,<br />
which was served in School House. She<br />
has particularly strong memories of the<br />
occasion and was deeply impressed by<br />
the Queen’s bearing during the occasion<br />
– her sense of humour, her evident<br />
enjoyment of the day and the interest<br />
she took in the people she met. She<br />
was touched that, on being introduced<br />
to her, the Queen immediately realised<br />
the connection with a<strong>no</strong>ther young<br />
member of staff she had met earlier in<br />
the morning – Jane’s fiancé, the Revd<br />
Michael Tupper (whose obituary is<br />
published on page 82).<br />
<strong>The</strong> recording of the ITV Central<br />
interview may be viewed on the School<br />
website: http://www.shrewsbury.<br />
org.uk/news/remembering-queensvisit-shrewsbury-school-october-1952.<br />
It includes extracts from the Pathé<br />
newsreel that captures some of the<br />
excitement of the Queen’s visit: http://<br />
www.britishpathe.com/video/queen-atshrewsbury<br />
Also on the School website is a gallery<br />
of photos of the Queen’s visit and a<br />
series of accounts of the day, including<br />
one written by David Longrigg: http://<br />
www.shrewsbury.org.uk/page/queensvisit-shrewsbury-1952<br />
L-R: Jane Tupper, David Longrigg, Adrian Struvé
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