Tag: godalming

25th April 2017

Baden-Powell Visits the Charterhouse (1901)

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a lieutenant-general in the British Army who founded the Scout Movement and became the first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association. He was a pupil at Charterhouse when the school moved to Godalming, Surrey, and was... continue

2nd December 2016

Object of the Month December 2016

The Block, 1837 | Lithograph by H W Burgess (c. 1792–1844) This print relates to Charterhouse School, the charitably-funded grammar school which flourished on this site between 1614 and 1872. The artist, Henry William Burgess, was the school’s drawing master in the 1830s and his still-life records... continue