"I moved to Australia 7yrs ago where I work as a film/tv producer. This week the strangest thing happened. I was out filming in a remote location in northern Victoria. Years ago they built the set for Man from Snowy River here. The owners of the land have kept it and once in a while it gets rented to film companies when we are looking for old town / 1850's sets or cowboy style sets.
It is a dilapidated old place that probably gets used once a year if that. Anyway we were filming all over the country and were using this set today for one set up. I arrived there this morning at 0600 and the only building that was still safe to go inside was the fake "town hall" - so I wandered in and amongst the rubbish and dust and some old tables I saw two framed photos lying on a table in the back. So I walked over and... they were both old pictures of cricket teams. One taken in 'the bush' somewhere in australia and the other... at Brighton College of a BCJS team back in the 50's probably!
I was gobsmacked!! What were the chances of me being 20,000 miles from Brighton in the middle of australia with a crew of 50 people from all over the world and I walk into an old unused film set am the only person to go over to these pictures and find one of them to be a picture of my old school! It completely blew me away!
So attached are a couple of pics of the film set (below: the photo was in the building where the lady and goat are outside) and the picture itself (above)! I would love to know when it was from and how an earth it made it to there! Bizarre! What a place to find it!"
Nick Betteridge (BCJS 1952-1956 D 1956-1961) has written in with some thoughts on the photo:
"I think the photograph of the BCJS cricket team found in Australia dates either from 1953 or 1954.
I was in the junior school from September 1952 to the summer of 1956.I think it’s one of the junior teams because if I remember rightly, when I got into the first 1X in 1956 we wore whites. I am second from the right in the back row. Standing next to me on my left I think is somebody call Stanwick. On the other end of the back row is Johnny Lewis (he went on to be a terrific cricketer and was also Captain of rugby in the senior school). The master in charge is “Dickie Bird” Holder. Seated next to him on his right I believe is Reed, and on his left I think is Thorpe. On the far right in the front row is Charlie Proe. The others I’m afraid I don’t remember. Fascinating to go back all those years. What a find! I wonder which one of the team owned the photograph."