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The Greyfriars Holiday Annual for 1925


1924

Greyfriars Holiday Annual

1926


The Holiday Annual 1925 was published by the Amalgamated Press in September 1924, in time for the Christmas market. It cost 6 shillings, had 360 pages, with a cover by R. J. Macdonald. It was reprinted as a facsimile edition in 1974 by Howard Baker Press.

 

Page

Title

Type

Author

Source

1

Buccaneers’ Gold

Plate

C. E. B. Bernard

1

The Greyfriars’ Holiday Annual

Picture

Anon.

2

The Editor to His Friends

Article

The Editor [CMD]

3

The Romance of the Holiday Annual

Story

The Editor

9

My Letter Bag

Article

The Editor

11

My Postal Order

Poem

Billy Bunter

reprinted MP 3

12

Jackson’s Dip

Story

P G Wodehouse

18

Celebrities of the Zoo

Article

Leslie G. Mainland

22

Coker’s Cruise

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

23

Sporting Records of Greyfriars

Article

H. Vernon-Smith

24

Greyfriars’ Gossip

Article

Bob Cherry

26

Billy Bunter’s Christmas Holiday

Article

Billy Bunter

28

A Pair of Impostors

Cartoon

C.H. Chapman

29

Power Driven Model Boats

Article

Anon.

33

A Wireless Tragedy

Cartoon

Anon.

34

The Border Raiders

Story

Gordon Wallace

40

A Mexican Border Raid

Plate

Anon.

46

Early Rising

Poem

Lord Mauleverer

47

Turlypin the Fox

Story

Clive Fenn

50

Hints to Uncles

Article

Tubby Muffin

51

How To Make a Garden Table

Article

Anon.

52

The Bunter Cup

Story

Frank Richards

57

Press Day at the Office of a Famous Weekly

Picture

Anon.

67

An Editorial Banquet

Picture

Anon.

77

The Greyfriars’ Masters’ Gallery - 1 : The Head

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

80

Greyfriars in the Old Coaching Days

Plate

Anon.

80

Greyfriars in the Good Old Days [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

115

A False Alarm

Story

Teddy Grace

119

Rookwood Reflections

Article

Jimmy Silver

121

A Landmark in the History of a Famous School

Plate

Anon.

121

The Great Rebellion at Rookwood [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

121

Sporting Records of Rookwood

Article

George Bulkeley

123

Getting Quits With Greyfriars

Story

Owen Conquest

131

The Greyfriars’ Masters’ Gallery - 2 : Mr Quelch

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

132

Building a Model Railway Wagon

Article

W J Bassett-Lowke

135

Skeleton Cove

Story

Stuart Martin

147

Bunter’s Banking Account

Story

Peter Todd

cf. Gussy in G 127

151

The Greyfriars’ Masters’ Gallery - 3 : Mr Prout

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

152

The Ghost of Greyfriars

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

153

Kings of Speed

Story

Alfred Edgar

160

Cutting Out the Pace

Plate

Anon.

166

The Greyfriars’ Masters’ Gallery - 4 : Mr Larry Lascelles

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

167

The Tribulations of Trimble

Story

Monty Lowther

171

St. Jim’s’ Sidelights

Article

Tom Merry

172

Sporting Records of St. Jim’s

Article

Eric Kildare

173

The Wild Man of Borneo [Bombay Castle]

Story

Duncan Storm

201

Queen of the Seas

Plate

Anon.

201

The Most Wonderful ? in the World [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

204

The Snow Fight

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

205

St. Katies’ Big Splash [St. Katie’s]

Story

Michael Poole

219

When the Stormy Winds Do Blow

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]

220

The Beggar at the Gate

Story

Howard Pease & Knight Jesse

228

Forbidden to Fight

Story

Martin Clifford

237

The Kidnapper Arrives

Picture

Anon.

238

In Your Editor’s Den

BBA

Billy Bunter

238

Tuckshop Toppicks

BBA

Baggy Trimble

238

Myself

BBA

Sammy Bunter

239

In the Klutch of the Kidnappers

BBA

Dicky Nugent

240

Our Gallery of Champions

BBA

Frank Nugent

240

Things We Want To Know

BBA

Jimmy Silver

240

A Famous Quintet - the Editorial Staff of “Billy Bunter’s Annual”

Plate

Anon.

241

When I Am Editor

BBA

Tubby Muffin

241

The Greyfriars’ Police Court

BBA

Anon.

242

What a Life

BBA

A Special Interviewer

242

A Footbawl Tragedy

Poem

Billy Bunter

243

Coker’s Earliest Ancestors

BBA

Peter Todd

244

When Coker Owns a Car

Picture

Anon.

245

Billy Bunter Among the Pots - and Pans!

Picture

Anon.

246

Under the Falls

Story

M. Wynne

255

Blind Man’s Buff - With a Bear

Story

Percy Longhurst

257

The Bishop’s Medal

Story

Martin Clifford

G 313

281

An Historic Jape at St. Jim’s

Plate

Anon.

281

The Biggest Schoolboy Hoax in the World [accompanying plate]

Article

Anon.

283

The Greyfriars’ Masters’ Gallery - 5 : Mr Wally Bunter

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

See M 731-735 [GRS]

301

The Greyfriars’ Masters’ Gallery - 6 : Mr Hacker

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

302

The Warning That Came too Late

Cartoon

Anon.

303

The Rival Editors

Story

Frank Richards

M 306

349

The Greyfriars’ Alphabet

Poem

Anon. [GRS]

351

Bob Cherry’s Triumph

Play

Frank Richards [?]

360

Au Revoir

Poem

Dick Penfold [GRS]


"The Greyfriars Holiday Annual for 1925" © Amalgamated Press 1924 "The Greyfriars Holiday Annual for 1925" Facsimile edition © Amalgamated Press & Howard Baker Press 1974


1924

Greyfriars Holiday Annual

1926

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