Orwell and Friends at Ward's Mead (I) Group photograph of Eric Arthur Blair and friends, after a swim at Ward's Mead, west of Eton, on the north bank of the Thames. Two figures in the background with obscured faces are unidentified, but in front of them (l-r) are Godfrey Meynell, [James Cochran] Steven[son] Runciman (in hat), [Arthur] George Wansbrough, Nigel [Walter] Hoare, Ralph [Mirrielees] Cazalet, Eric Arthur Blair (in hat), and Christopher [Gilbert] Eastwood. 1919