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The Greyfriars Holiday Annual for 1928


1927

Greyfriars Holiday Annual

1929


The Holiday Annual 1928 was published by the Amalgamated Press in September 1927. It cost 6/-, had 360 pages, with a cover by R. J. Macdonald. An abridged edition was reprinted by Howard Baker Press in 1971.

 

Page

Title

Type

Author

Source

2

The Editor to His Friends

Article

The Editor [CMD]

3

A Great Day at Greyfriars

Story

The Editor

9

Billy Bunter’s Postal Order [diary extracts]

Article

Billy Bunter

11

Bunter Goes Skating

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

12

A Really Novel Crossword

Article

Anon.

13

Robin Hood’s Present

Story

Philip Hardy

20

The Greyfriars Fancy Dress Ball

Cartoon

C. H. Chapman

21

The Haunted Tuckshop

Story

Frank Richards

31

High Jumping

Article

Anon.

33

On the Western Trail

Story

Cecil Fanshawe

40

At Bay

Plate

Anon.

45

The Greyfriars’ Porter

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

46

The Spoor Speaks

Article

Anon.

48

Holiday Joys - 1: Off To The Sea !

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

49

In the Lumber-Lands of the Far North West

Picture

Anon.

50

A Day of Liberty

Story

Clive Fenn

53

Holiday Joys - 2 : Caravanning

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

54

A Page of Greyfriars Personalities

Picture

C. H. Chapman

55

Baxter’s Bath-Chair

Story

Geo. E. Rochester

65

A Vision of the Future

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

66

What I Want To Be

Article

Greyfriars Celebrities

68

The Greyfriars’ Puzzle Corner

Article

Anon.

69

Skating Skill

Article

Anon.

71

Great Games at Greyfriars

Article

George Wingate

72

The World’s Largest Seaplane

Photo

Anon.

73

Billy Bunter Plays Football

Cartoon

C. H. Chapman

74

Stories of My Schooldays

Article

Greyfriars Old Boys

75

The French Lesson

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

76

How Sammy Bunter Washed the Pup

Cartoon

C. H. Chapman

77

The Six Styles of Swimming

Article

Anon.

79

A Celebrated Batsman in Action

Cartoon

C. H. Chapman

80

An Aeroplane Catapult

Plate

Anon.

80

Catapulted Into Action [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

80

Holiday Joys - 3 : Camping Out

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

81

The Greyfriars of Yesterday

Article

Henry Quelch MA

82

Sammy Bunter depicted in a number of stages

Picture

C. H. Chapman

83

The Jogi’s Treasure

Story

H P Cinnamond

89

Battling Bunter

Story

Frank Richards

cf. M 81, 83

109

Holiday Joys - 4 : Treasure Hunting

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

115

Sports Day at Greyfriars

Picture

C. H. Chapman

121

A Rag of the Olden Time

Plate

Anon.

121

A Greyfriars Rag [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

123

Mr Bunter Puts Down a Carpet

Cartoon

C. H. Chapman

124

Our Cadet Corps in Camp

Article

Sergeant Harry Wharton

125

Kidnapping the Kidnapper [Bombay Castle]

Story

Duncan Storm

141

Schoolboy Celebrities Versified

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

142

A Conundrum in Verse

Poem

Anon.

143

Have We Lived Before?

Article

Monty Lowther

144

Cricket Gossip of Rookwood

Article

George Bulkeley

145

Dogs - Some Well Known Breeds

Picture

C. H. Chapman

146

Baggy Trimble’s Romance

Story

Martin Clifford

152

Alonzo’s Joy Ride

Picture

C. H. Chapman

153

Nor’Eighty East From Seven Stones

Story

Geoffrey Prout

160

A Bolt From the Blue

Plate

Anon.

160

Torpedo-Carrying Seaplanes [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

161

Some Famous Headmasters [St. Jim’s]

Article

Victor Railton

162

Hidden Schoolboys [puzzle]

Article

Anon.

163

Replies to Troubled Querists

Article

Monty Lowther

164

Four Famous Public Schools

Picture

E. E. Briscoe

165

Newspaper Extracts Which May Appear in the Year 1950

Article

Monty Lowther

cf. GHA 1924

166

Holiday Memories

Picture

C. H. Chapman

167

The White Chinaman

Story

Peter Bayne

176

Famous Public Schools

Picture

E. E. Briscoe

177

How Jeremy Beat the Doones

Story

Anon.

181

Billy Bunter’s Annual

Picture

Anon.

182

From Your Editor’s Desk

BBA

Billy Bunter

182

My Sporting Self

BBA

Billy Bunter

183

Larks on the Links

BBA

Tom Brown

184

When We All Fly

BBA

Bob Cherry

184

English As She Is Spoke

Poem

Monty Lowther

184

The Schoolboy Headmaster

Poem

Dick Russell

185

The Gorgers [interview with Tubby Muffin]

BBA

A Special Representative

186

Poor Quelchy

Poem

Anon.

186

A Greyfriars Case

BBA

Anon.

187

The Terror of St. Ted’s

BBA

Dicky Nugent

GH 1/55 in M 727

188

Parodies Up to Date

Poem

Anon.

189

Bob Cherry of Greyfriars School

Picture

C. H. Chapman

190

Speedway Luck

Story

Alfred Edgar

191

When Schooldays End

Plate

C. H. Chapman

201

Cutting In at the Hairpin Bend

Plate

Anon.

204

The Famous Five – and Billy Bunter!

Picture

C. H. Chapman

205

Jimmy Silver’s Pupils

Story

Owen Conquest

216

Football Gossip at Rookwood

Article

George Bulkeley

217

The Arm of the Law

Story

Martin Clifford

240

Saved at the Eleventh Hour

Plate

Anon.

240

A Race to Save a Life [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

254

Musical Comedy at Rookwood

Article

Jimmy Silver

256

Famous Public Schools

Picture

E. E. Briscoe

257

Random Ramblings Round Rookwood

Article

Owen Conquest

260

Tubby Muffin - the Fat Boy of Rookwood

Picture

C. H. Chapman

261

Rookwood Recollections

Article

Richard Dalton MA

263

Adolphus Smythe - Knuttiest of the Knuts

Picture

Anon.

264

A Trapper’s Life on the Frozen Plain

Picture

Anon.

265

Tea With Mr. Manders

Story

Owen Conquest

BF 815

270

Teddy Grace of Rookwood - Prince of Japers

Picture

Anon.

272

A Spill - and a Hidden Face

Picture

C. H. Chapman

281

The Interrupted Fight

Plate

Anon.

281

The Rookwood Champion [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

287

How Horace Coker Got His Remove

Story

Frank Richards

M 145

297

Coker Plays Football

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

299

Road Hogging With a Vengeance

Picture

C. H. Chapman

313

The Song of the Slacker

Poem

Lord Mauleverer

316

Famous Public Schools

Picture

E. E. Briscoe

325

Holiday Joys - 5 : Bathing in the Briny

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

327

Holiday Joys - 6 : Cricket on the Sands

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

347

Bunter’s Booby Prize

Play

Dick Penfold

352

Hurree Jamset Ram Singh - Otherwise Known as Inky

Picture

C. H. Chapman

354

Harold Skinner - One of the Black Sheep

Picture

C. H. Chapman

356

Johnny Bull - a Sturdy Member of the Famous Five

Picture

C. H. Chapman

359

Index

Anon.


"The Greyfriars Holiday Annual for 1928" © Amalgamated Press 1927 "The Greyfriars Holiday Annual for 1928" Facsimile edition © Amalgamated Press & Howard Baker Press 1971


1927

Greyfriars Holiday Annual

1929

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