This "Photo scrapbook" of the Worcester has been compiled, arranged and written by Brian Beale [OW - 1954] over the last four years and is now approved and published by the Association of Old Worcesters. Brian has received considerable and invaluable assistance in proof-reading and checking of historical facts by Capt. Malcolm Borland [1950] and Colin Steere [1947], both long-standing Association Council members.

The book covers the period from the formation of the College in 1862 through to the closure in 1968, and the later post-Worcester years, events and developments up until 2007. With almost 450 photographs and graphics [310 black and white and 130 in colour], there is extensive pictorial coverage of this 146 year period in our college history, supplemented with well researched facts and figures. There is a section on the Cutty Sark, numerous appendices of 'Worcester personalities and data, and a fold-out A3 size colour "cut-away" of Worcester III draawn by the artist Laurence Dunn, and later reproduced in the Eagle boys comic in 1960. There are a number of late 19th/early20th century images that have only recently come to light.

As a pictorial and historical reference to our College, and its i mportance in our Nation's maritime history, this book should prove of considerable interest, not only to OWs themselves, but to their wives, their children and grandchildren alike.