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Laminated Card Covers. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket as Published. First Edition. Published in celebration of the first 100 years since her foundation at Eastbourne, 288pp, illustrated with black & white photos, pages clean and crisp, laminated card covers, slight reading creases to spine. In 1877 a small prep school started in Eastbourne East Sussex which in time would develop into St Andrews School. In 1890 it was sold to a clergyman called Edwin Leece Browne or ELB for short. The school flourished and by the mid-1890s it was bursting at the seams. ELB (whose portrait hangs over the fireplace in the drawing room at Aldro) decided to get his younger brother Harold to start up an annexe which Harold decided to name Aldro after a farm in Yorkshire that he regularly visited. The name simply means alder row or row of alder trees. Size: 8.25 x 6 Inches. School History.…