Retford King Edward VI Grammar School - 1962 The Tower Prank Plotters

Tom Oxley has kindly shared not just these photographs, but a step by step chronicle of this school prank, to which many surviving pupils get credit/implication! Feel free to add your own recollections, and denials, to each photograph...

A complete chronicle, including various other entertaining antics of Tom's youth, can be found here.

1962 plan

1962 final ascent

1962 tower ascent route

1962 banner raised

1962 banner retrieved

1962 tower plotters

1962 tower names

1962 banner gang