Barwick House School
Barwick House as shown in the photographs on this site is sadly no more although the building is still standing and is now being used as luxury apartments, this is as a result of the school (which previously occupied it) going bankrupt in 1987, the school was run by a Major Gray and his wife. I was a pupil there from September 9th 1977 to May 25th 1979 and I was glad to learn of its closure as a school although it wasn't until April 2010 that I actually learned of this development. I say that I was glad because my memories of my stay at the school are not happy ones, my memories of my time at Barwick House are of abuse and suffering and I am delighted that the school is no more and that the abusing monster who ran it is almost certainly now dead.
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RE: RE: Barwick House School
Hi Grame, I was at Barwick at about the same time as you, but I was at the offshoot school in Curry Rivel, which was a much better place to be. I was at the Yeovil School for a while, I recall it wasn't that nice. Keep in touch, Shaun.
Comment from Shaun Norris on Sunday, 18th July 2010.
RE: RE: Barwick House School
Hello Graeme,
How are Clare School and Barwick House linked? I read that Clare School was started by Harold Treacher Bowden but am uncertain about the date. I am now 80 and in 1940 was at Lucton Boarding School in Herefordshire and a teacher there at that time was Harold Treacher Bowden and he left suddenly mid-term being picked up by a taxi and we neither saw nor heard any more about him after that. He was aged about 40 and was bald with glasses and was nicknamed "Garibaldi". He had a telescope and often invited students out at night in to a field near the school to view the moon. This seems to link to comments made about Bowden at Clare School.
I believe that he was married as a picture upon his mantleshelf in his study was of a young boy who Bowden said was his son. You comment on the closure of a school and "the abusing monster who ran it is almost certainbly now dead." Are you referring to Bowden? If so, I should be interested to hear more from you as it would confirm some of my own opinions.
I see another reference to Harold Treacher Bowden in the "London Gazette" 9 Jan. 1923. Officer's Training Corps. (OTC) Harold Treacher Bowden to be 2nd Lt. for service with Berhamsted Schl. Cont,. Jun. Div., OTC 10th Jan 1923.
Friendly greetings and a Happy New Year
Duncan
Comment from Duncan Currie on Saturday, 7th January 2012.