Farfields School
I suspect either caption "Basingstoke Boarding School" or "Fairfields School" is correct, depending on your time period. I attended this school in the 1960s & 70s when it was aan ordinary (non-boarding) Infants & Junior school called Fairfields, and yes I remember Mr. Thomas, the headmaster, as an authority to be feared.
But the building was much older than that, and I remember seeing a keystone with "1898" written on it. Quite likely it was a boarding school in its early days.
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RE: RE: Farfields School
This is surely Fairfields School. I went to Fairfields Infants school at around the 1957-1960 period. I remember a teacher (possibly the head) called Mrs. Hole, who was a very scary person at the time.
Comment from Reginald Whitney on Wednesday, 10th March 2010.