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After leaving Wield, Hampshire, my mother was the headmistress of St. Andrew's primary school. She raised 4 children alone. My brother Peter G.W. Keen is a highly respected businessman (look him up on the internet). He went to school at Reading and Balliol college Oxford. My elder sister is also a well respected eductator. My twin sister and I both reside in Texas. All my growing years my address was "school house". Always had a house with the job. The house was usually next to the school. Whenever we needed something extra for the kitchen she would send one of us, my 2 sisters lived there too, to the school kitchen to get it. The house had a shed for coal and it was attached to the house. The roof was outside my bedroom window. When the sun shone we could crawl out the window and lay a blanket and catch some sun. When the new school addition was finished the actor Richard Todd came to to perform the opeing ceremonies. I left England on July 1, 1968. My mother has left this world but the school is still there. You can take me out of England but you can't take England out of me.

Written by Jennie Biggar. To send Jennie Biggar a private message, click here.

A memory of Chaddleworth in Berkshire shared on Sunday, 1st March 2009.

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