Comments on: Sizewell Hall (School) http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/ A Special Place by the Sea Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:52:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Tony Smith http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-164 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:54:02 +0000 http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-164 Hi Richard Thanks for ringing this morning; absolutely fascinating to hear names and incidents from the past that were nearly, but not quite, forgotten. After we rang off I remembered the girls name that I was friendly with; it was Kenreth. Do you remember her? Wasn't there a girl called****** Pendergast? I think my brother kept in contact with her after he left. Have a feeling she went to the States. I slept in a 2 bed dormitory for a while with a lad from London. Two of the other girls I mentioned were Lee who may or not have been Swiss but certainly had connections there. There was a boy called Alistaire who nearly drowned me by climbing up on me and shouting for help. We were both rescued at the same time by Harry Tuyn, who swam along carrying us both! There was once a boy who sang at the table and for a punishment had to sing all through a lunch; he sang "Buttons & Bows" over & over again. Eventually the grandmar (was it Harry's mother or his wife's?) got up and played the piano to accompany him as he started to go out of tune. Best wishes Tony Brownbread Stud 01424 892381 893922 Hi Richard
Thanks for ringing this morning; absolutely fascinating to hear names and incidents from the past that were nearly, but not quite, forgotten.
After we rang off I remembered the girls name that I was friendly with; it was Kenreth. Do you remember her?
Wasn’t there a girl called****** Pendergast? I think my brother kept in contact with her after he left. Have a feeling she went to the States.
I slept in a 2 bed dormitory for a while with a lad from London.
Two of the other girls I mentioned were Lee who may or not have been Swiss but certainly had connections there.
There was a boy called Alistaire who nearly drowned me by climbing up on me and shouting for help. We were both rescued at the same time by Harry Tuyn, who swam along carrying us both!
There was once a boy who sang at the table and for a punishment had to sing all through a lunch; he sang “Buttons & Bows” over & over again. Eventually the grandmar (was it Harry’s mother or his wife’s?) got up and played the piano to accompany him as he started to go out of tune.
Best wishes
Tony
Brownbread Stud
01424 892381 893922

]]> by: Tony Smith http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-162 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:34:06 +0000 http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-162 My email is tony.brownbread@tesco.net My email is tony.brownbread@tesco.net

]]> by: Tony Smith http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-161 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:16:54 +0000 http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-161 Hi Leonni I was there with you and remember you well. You may remember me as I was 3 years younger than my brother David. He and the French boy Jeal (spelling?) decided to run away and persuaded me, a non swimmer of 8 yrs old, to go with them in the middle of the night. The three of us walked along the beach in the middle of the night, pinched a boat and rowed down the East Coast, eventually getting wrecked. I clambered ashore....... The story goes on because you then featured in it when we eventually got caught and returned to the school, but I'll tell you the details another time. Perhaps Boni would like to put it in her book; I have intended to write the whole issue into a book at sometime. I went back to Sizewell a couple of years ago so prob won't be going there again in the near future. Where do you live? I am in East Sussex and run the Brownbread Horse Rescue Centre, near Battle. www.brownbreadhorserescue.com and www.brownbreadstud.com Tel: 01424 892381 893922 Hi Leonni
I was there with you and remember you well.
You may remember me as I was 3 years younger than my brother David. He and the French boy Jeal (spelling?) decided to run away and persuaded me, a non swimmer of 8 yrs old, to go with them in the middle of the night. The three of us walked along the beach in the middle of the night, pinched a boat and rowed down the East Coast, eventually getting wrecked. I clambered ashore……. The story goes on because you then featured in it when we eventually got caught and returned to the school, but I’ll tell you the details another time. Perhaps Boni would like to put it in her book; I have intended to write the whole issue into a book at sometime.
I went back to Sizewell a couple of years ago so prob won’t be going there again in the near future.
Where do you live?
I am in East Sussex and run the Brownbread Horse Rescue Centre, near Battle.
www.brownbreadhorserescue.com
and
www.brownbreadstud.com
Tel: 01424 892381 893922

]]> by: Brian McLean http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-151 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:32:35 +0000 http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-151 Your lovely photograph of the old Sizewell Hall School is of a summer “holiday course” of foreign students, not of the school as such. We were all younger than that and wore some semblance of a school uniform. I recognize the balding young man in the centre of second row of people seated on the steps—a genial Italian, older than the others, who came back several years running, although his English remained rather strange. To the left of Elaine (oh how she left an impression on us!) stands the small, bespectacled Miss Acheson, school secretary and owner of the school’s only car, a little convertible Austin. Everything was delivered and most of the personnel were live-in, although there was some walking to Leiston in the evenings and occasional taxis were called. Perhaps the photograph also shows something of the economic problems that Harry faced. A staff of 13 in a large rented house looking after a holiday course of 34. It can’t have paid, can it? Our school fees, incidentally, were £60 a term when I first went there in 1952. With best wishes Brian I think it might take a book's worth to tell Boni all my memories, so I'll email him/her. To Leonie: what fun, have a lovely time on your visit and please report back here in GREAT DETAIL! To Richard: The three names ring a bell with me too. I think Sabby Welford was famous and the other boys were still talking about him when I came in '52. Alison and Nicky I remember as benign older pupils. Actually everyone was benign at that school. Extraordinary. Your lovely photograph of the old Sizewell Hall School is of a summer “holiday course” of foreign students, not of the school as such. We were all younger than that and wore some semblance of a school uniform. I recognize the balding young man in the centre of second row of people seated on the steps—a genial Italian, older than the others, who came back several years running, although his English remained rather strange. To the left of Elaine (oh how she left an impression on us!) stands the small, bespectacled Miss Acheson, school secretary and owner of the school’s only car, a little convertible Austin. Everything was delivered and most of the personnel were live-in, although there was some walking to Leiston in the evenings and occasional taxis were called. Perhaps the photograph also shows something of the economic problems that Harry faced. A staff of 13 in a large rented house looking after a holiday course of 34. It can’t have paid, can it? Our school fees, incidentally, were £60 a term when I first went there in 1952.

With best wishes

Brian

I think it might take a book’s worth to tell Boni all my memories, so I’ll email him/her. To Leonie: what fun, have a lovely time on your visit and please report back here in GREAT DETAIL! To Richard: The three names ring a bell with me too. I think Sabby Welford was famous and the other boys were still talking about him when I came in ‘52. Alison and Nicky I remember as benign older pupils. Actually everyone was benign at that school. Extraordinary.

]]> by: Leonie Lorimer (nee Hunt) http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-123 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:10:16 +0000 http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-123 What a surprise to read about others who went to Sizewell Hall school. As well as the Tuyns my memories are of Mr Butters (maths & English?), Mrs Prendergast (matron) and our song "Give me a Home .... where Latin is dry and maths makes us cry" etc. My parents went to North Borneo in about 1947 I think leaving my brother, Michael, and me at Sizewell. I had a wonderful time but sadly Michael became very ill and after 2 years or so we were taken out to Borneo (Sandakan). Memories: dragons' teeth and looking for amber on the beach after a storm; climbing the huge Cedar tree; watching tennis matches by climbing on the cut-in-half boat on either side of the court and cutting my leg; riding; enjoyable lessons; playing Jacks in the long school room on wet days and volleyball, wet or dry; the stairs; communal hair washing in a steamy bathroom once a week; the dormitory, my bed and looking glass which I still have and I also have my napkin ring; roller skating down Picadilly and sleeping in Thorpeness old water tower when friends' kind parents took me out in the holidays - I wonder if anyone remembers me? I plan to visit Sizewell on 27th June staying for 2 nights at the next door campsite and trying my daughter's patience showing her the things that I remember so vividly. Unfortunately I do not have any photographs. Leonie Lorimer What a surprise to read about others who went to Sizewell Hall school. As well as the Tuyns my memories are of Mr Butters (maths & English?), Mrs Prendergast (matron) and our song “Give me a Home …. where Latin is dry and maths makes us cry” etc.

My parents went to North Borneo in about 1947 I think leaving my brother, Michael, and me at Sizewell. I had a wonderful time but sadly Michael became very ill and after 2 years or so we were taken out to Borneo (Sandakan).

Memories: dragons’ teeth and looking for amber on the beach after a storm; climbing the huge Cedar tree; watching tennis matches by climbing on the cut-in-half boat on either side of the court and cutting my leg; riding; enjoyable lessons; playing Jacks in the long school room on wet days and volleyball, wet or dry; the stairs; communal hair washing in a steamy bathroom once a week; the dormitory, my bed and looking glass which I still have and I also have my napkin ring; roller skating down Picadilly and sleeping in Thorpeness old water tower when friends’ kind parents took me out in the holidays - I wonder if anyone remembers me?

I plan to visit Sizewell on 27th June staying for 2 nights at the next door campsite and trying my daughter’s patience showing her the things that I remember so vividly. Unfortunately I do not have any photographs.

Leonie Lorimer

]]> by: Richard Lloyd http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-121 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:02:31 +0000 http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-121 Hi I am Richard Lloyd, I was at the school from 1948 until 1952 and would like to get in touch with Nicky Mikleson, Alison Auld and Sebastion Welford. Please contact me on my email address.  <a href="mailto:rlloyd@holmburysheep.co.uk"><font color="#00019b">rlloyd@holmburysheep.co.uk</font></a> Hi I am Richard Lloyd, I was at the school from 1948 until 1952 and would like to get in touch with Nicky Mikleson, Alison Auld and Sebastion Welford. Please contact me on my email address. 
rlloyd@holmburysheep.co.uk

]]> by: Boni Sones http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-120 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:11:55 +0000 http://sizewellhall.com/2008/sizewell-hall-school/#comment-120 Hi. I am a journalist attempting to write an article about Sizewell Hall School when it first started in the early 1950s. I would appreciate any memories people have including stories about Harry, Elaine, the cook, Joan Chapman and her partner Ron Hobson. I too grew up on this coast at this time and have fond memories of Harry and Joan. I am interested in the influence the school had on education and why this area of the coast gave rise to such progressive ideas, the school at Sizewell, AS Neil's and Britten too. My email is info@bonisones.co.uk and mobile 07703 716961. Hi. I am a journalist attempting to write an article about Sizewell Hall School when it first started in the early 1950s. I would appreciate any memories people have including stories about Harry, Elaine, the cook, Joan Chapman and her partner Ron Hobson.

I too grew up on this coast at this time and have fond memories of Harry and Joan. I am interested in the influence the school had on education and why this area of the coast gave rise to such progressive ideas, the school at Sizewell, AS Neil’s and Britten too.

My email is info@bonisones.co.uk and mobile 07703 716961.

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