From the right angle, that’s a really lovely looking building.
This is the standard view of the main school building built when there was only one boarding house - “school house”. It could be quite imposing.
Still not as bonkers gothic (?) as Dulwich College around the corner from me now
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Uzed to go there for our annual drubbing at Rugby.
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The Alma Mater of Nazi Nige.
I wonder if he’s welcomed at Old Boys gatherings.
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Probably considered a bit of a pinko…
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Nazi Nige should be used from now for the fucking cunt. 
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The Old Boys are known as the Old Alleynians
They were and still are quite a formidable force on the rugby field and Nick Easter, Andrew Sheridan, David Flatman, are all relatively recent England Internationals who went there.
Most things around here are Alleyn something-or-other because
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I deleted the post I did earlier about the boarding school I went to because it reminded me how shit it was and how unhappy I was……
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From the City of Toronto archives 1972
Victory Burlesque Theatre - Tender-Rare Pussy Willow and Her Flip Top Box Review.
Began life in the 20s as the Yiddish Standard Theatre, this part of the city was transforming in the 70s from largely Jewish to the Chinatown area (in 1975 the Victory would transform into a Chinese cinema, its now retail space).
If you poke around down laneways you will still find some entrances for Jewish owned bespoke tailors shops. No indication they are there beyond tiny, discreet signage.
Rush and Kiss (both bands largely Jewish members) played very early shows in their careers at the Victory
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Geddy Lee (Gary Lee Weintraub) and Alex Lifeson (Aleksander Živojinović) often describe themselves as “a couple of nice Jewish boys from Rosedale”. Rosedale is an affluent largely Jewish area of Toronto.
“Geddy” is an approximation of Lee’s Russian grandmother’s pronunciation of his name, it became an inside joke between lifelong friends Lee and Lifeson 
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