| Description | Mounted and captionned black and white photographs removed from Mr Castle photograph album. There are 4 photographs of football teams at the junior Seminary, Mark Cross. There is also a photograph of a Vocations Exhibition held at the College.
The remaining photographs were taken at St. John's Seminary, Wonersh and are as follows:
General ordination, 1956 [Mark Cross boys went to every ordination at Wonersh and filled the centre aisle]
Sports Day and Marathon Day 1958
The Mikado, 1959
HMS Pinafore, c. 1960
Tonsure given, September 1959
Tonsure groups off to tea, September 1959 [Tony Castle notes 'Students only allowed out in groups of 3. The new clerics were allowed out for the first time']
Newly ordained, 1959
Sports Day, 1959
The building extensions, 1960 [Paid for by Mgr Moody, a Vatican diplomat]. These also show the handball courts. Handball was a popular game at Wonersh but never recovered after the building work took the courts.
Note: Tony Castle is the author of 'Nuturing the Seed, A Short History of St. Joseph's College, Mark Cross'.
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