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Reigate Road, REIGATE, RH2 0QN

1916 Pierce-Arrow charabanc (German registration no SI-P-1913-H) carrying supporters opposite Reigate Grammar School.

1901 Locomobile spindle-seat runabout steam car registration no RS 8023 (start no 89) and 1903 Clement tonneau registration no N 1261 (start no 195), opposite Reigate Grammar School.

1901 MMC coupé registration no A 883 (start no 195), opposite Reigate Grammar School. Behind it is a 1939 Morris 12 Saloon, registration no 361 YUA, as a non-participating extra.

1899 Brown quadricycle registration no EL 379 (start no 20) and 1903 Flint Roadster registration no BS 8097 (start no 227), opposite Reigate Grammar School.

A cyclist on a Penny Farthing joins in the fun, seen here opposite Reigate Grammar School.

1904 De Dion Bouton tonneau registration no M 317 (start no 298) opposite Reigate Grammar School.

1901 Argyll spindle-seat tonneau registration no BS 8477 (start no 86) opposite Reigate Grammar School.

A mixed independent day school for 11- 18 year olds; younger pupils are catered for by St Mary's School (see Image). It was originally founded in 1675. For many years, it came under St Mary's Church (see Image), the headmastership being held by the vicar of the church. It became a grammar school in 1862, and the main school buildings date from then (although there has been much expansion since). In 1944, it became a direct grant school, a status it held for just over 30 years before becoming fully independent again in 1976. Up to that point it had catered for boys only; girls joined in the sixth form from 1976, with the school becoming fully mixed in 1993. For more details of the history see http://www.reigategrammar.org/grammarhistoryandtradition.

1903 De Dietrich racing two-seater registration no A 1853 (start no 267) opposite Thomas Moore House.

Thomas Moore was a local magistrate in the late 17th century who donated a field for use as a Quaker burial ground. A meeting place was subsequently built here. The current building, the third on the site, part of which is visible on the right of the photo, was built in 1984 with part of the land being used at the same time for a sheltered housing development, the main subject of the photo, appropriately named Thomas Moore House.