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Newsletter 2012 page 1
Newsletter 2012 page 2

It includes news of the past year, memories of visitors.  Photos and much more.

This year we have produced a Prayer Diary too.  You can download a copy for your use.

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Recently we have had several enquiries about Sizewell Hall when it was a School.  Do you know anything about it? This picture was taken about 1956 and was supplied by Virginia Peace, fourth from the left.  Elaine and Harry Tuyn are in the centre at the top. 

Did you attend either the Boarding School or “The Summer Holiday Course”?  The following photos are of some of those Summer Schools.

I spend 2 summers at Sizewell when it was an International Summer School where foreign students (up to 18 years old ) came for 6 weeks to learn English.  In 1957 I came in April to look after the daughters of the principal Harry Tuyn whilst their German Nanny went on extended leave and the following year I was a staff member looking after “health and welfare” of students and staff.  My name is Anneke but (as the then baby could not say that )she called me Ankie. So in this country I am now known as Ankie or Anne! 

Most of the male tutors were past and present university students and the female staff came from Sweden or Germany plus a few local ladies.

After 54+ years I cannot remember any names except Kathleen and Haleh a Persian girl who spend years with the Tuyn family and was educated by them.  Haleh was the head cook in 1958. On that photo I am standing next to Harry Tuyn and Haleh is standing next to me.

 
This photo was taken in 1957. Supplied by Anne van Woerden.  Where are you now?

Do you have any pictures that we can share on the web with other visitors?

The Tuyn family and staff on the terrace with Kathleen Anderson standing, at the end of the course with Harry Tuyn and Kathleen.  She was the secretary and really a Jack of all trades (admin wise)  The Tuyns also had a boarding school in Switserland in the winter so Kathleen had a full time post.

The students were not allowed to speak in their own language and if caught doing so they were fined. I can’t remember how much but is was probably 6 pence a time. The money collected in the 6 weeks was used to fund the leaving party!  (Anne van Woerden.)

Please contact us and perhaps you can be reunited with past friends.

When the School at Sizewell Hall closed in the later 1950s, Harry Tuyn started an English girls’ finishing school in Château d’Oex, near Gstaad.  Harry sadley died in Canada many years ago.

I’m glad to see dear old Sizewell Hall is being put to such good use. I was a pupil at Sizewell Hall School in 1952 until it closed in 1955. It was small a coeducational preparatory school for eight to 13-year-olds, joined for the summer by foreign students.
There were only three or four teachers, including the headmaster, Harry Tuyn, a Dutchman who taught us English, French, German, Latin and Greek by turns! It left me, for instance, with a lifelong passion for literature, nature study and music.
We were allowed to make full use of the 35 acres as our playground, except for the area beyond the pond, which was out of bounds in the summer after a boy was bitten by an adder. What was different from other schools I attended is that we seemed to be one community of children, tolerant of our differences in age, sex and background. One fellow pupil was Sheridan Morley, the theatre critic, whom I see in the paper died not long ago.
I would love to get in touch with others who were there at that time. Robert? Wayne? Gijs? Clara? Arnold? Geraldine? Dorothy? Harleh? Karen? Gretel? Mr Hobson? Miss Acheson? I wonder where you are now. Look after yourselves.
Brian

Golf Brochure 2011

Be sure to book earlier for 2011, this last year 2010 we were fully booked!

Following the success of other years golf breaks we are pleased to be able to offer another opportunityfor you to improve your golf!  Why not join us and encourage your golf friends to join us too.  See the class of 2010 above, what a great bunch.

We normally have two walks of different length for each day.

We normally walk in places of local interest and also find time to take that light refreshment.

This is the group in July 2010.

Please click on the link to download an application form.  Walking Brochure 2011

  

  Rob & Lesley Aldred were recently appointed as Assistant Managers at Sizewell Hall.  They will start work in June 2010.  This is a short introduction to them, a fuller one will follow in the next newsletter. 

  “We are a happily married couple of 26 years. Lesley originates from Wenhaston & Rob from Felixstowe. We have 2 grown up children Nick 24 who lives in Kesgrave & Jade 22 who lives in Norwich.  Currently both of us work in Felixstowe, Lesley at the General Hospital & Rob as a Manager at the Port.”  

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Picture is taken from the kitchen door looking to the dishwasher room. 

The phone in relation to the lift.

Picture of the lift on the second floor, taken outside bedroom 24.

Picture taken to show the inside of the lift.