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Dockenfield Manor, Farnham Surrey.
I was a student at Dockenfield Manor in the 1940's. Looking back, the entire faculty should have been arrested for child abuse, fraud, and a host of other charges. At the time, the Headmasters name was Dr. Hastings, other teachers included Dr. Franks, (whose every second sentence was "Oh God, please help me"), Mr. Nehoff a Dutchman that may have been a Nazi in disguise, a Miss Saunders (Dr. Hastings squeeze) and the best of them that had more integrity than all of the rest, a Miss Weir-Rose, whom I was in love with at the age of six! Punishment was handed out by sadistic teachers and prefects, that included from three to six cuts on the hands, being held down naked on a bed and being whipped with a stick, pulled hair, kicks on the behind, etc, etc. The food mainly consisted of banana sandwiches, margarine and jam, fried 'stuff' and tapiocca pudding. When the holidays came, old Bailey's Yellow and Black Bus would arrive and take the... Read more
My Childhood
I lived at Manor Farm and remember the boy next door, his name was Nigel Swatton. I wonder what happened to him. Then there was the Cripps family and Joan Berry, I wonder what happened to all of those. I would love to look around the farm to see how it has changed.
Dockenfield Manor School
During the war years Dockenfield Manor was a school which I attended as our home in London was destroyed by bombs. For some reason I seem to remember the school was transferred from the Isle of Wight for the duration of the war. I used to help a local lad from the farm next door bring in the cows. We were both around 7 years old. One day we saw a V1 heading towards our school then it turned off and we heard it landed in Aldershot. When in the Army in 1956 in Germany I met the only survivor from the family it killed.
We used to skate on Frensham Ponds in the winter. I caught my first fish and nearly drowned in the local river on another occasion.
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I think this is Cumpsteys Corner where the hairdresses and butchers is. God, it's changed.
Lodge Pond The Making of
Does anyone know the history of Lodge Pond, my family were Brickmakers and had a brick kiln nearby, we think the pond was created by them digging the clay. I would love to have any opinions.
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