1961, 1st January

A potential chorister being auditioned by Lionel Dakers.

The boy is Jonathan Ridge, who became a treble. His brother Adrian was also a treble, but tragically died in a canoe accident at a weir on the River Exe while a boy.

The photograph was taken in the nave looking across the old (replaced in the 1970s) wooden choir stalls towards the north porch.

A print of this photograph exists in the entrance hall of the cathedral school.

Source: Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/3438039/Hulton-Archive

With thanks to Colin Brownlee, of In Quires and Places, for alerting me to this image and to David Acres (treble 1960-66) and Gordon Pike (treble 1960-66) for information about the Ridge boys.