Royal Soldiers Daughters School (boarding) Rosslyn Hill
I remember the day my mother left me there. It was raining, outside and in my heart The school had church-like double doors and as we went in it felt like the end of the world to me. I was only six years old. Rosslyn House has gone now, just memories. Anyone remember Miss Betts I wonder? And Miss Lloyd and her dachsund Bishop?
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RE: RE: Royal Soldiers Daughters School (boarding) Rosslyn Hill
Hello I was a boarder at the RSD, we used to travel (march) to day school in Camden. I remember Miss Kimpenger and Miss Bluet. Does anyone remember 'Harry Vane' and his three legged horse? I have fond memories.
Comment from Sue Beautyman on Thursday, 23rd September 2010.
RE: RE: Royal Soldiers Daughters School (boarding) Rosslyn Hill
I remember being a RSDS. I have fond memories of my years there. I was in the newer building on Roslyn Hill. I remember Harry Vane and his three-legged horse, I also remember the head mistress Mrs Sibley, Miss Dunlop, Miss Anderson and Mrs Goldsmith. I was 8 years old when I first went there. Sharon Meyers.
Comment from Sharon Meyers on Saturday, 28th January 2012.
RE: RE: Royal Soldiers Daughters School (boarding) Rosslyn Hill
Perhaps I was there before you girls (c 1946-9) as I do not know anything about three legged horses. There was a rocking horse in our day-room upstairs, where Miss Betts taught us little 'uns - marvellous beast it was and I rather made it my own property.
Comment from Pat Weedon on Saturday, 28th January 2012.
RE: RE: Royal Soldiers Daughters School (boarding) Rosslyn Hill
I was there with my sister Julie in 1965 until 1974, we had good times at school and remember the three-legged horse in the old school.
Comment from Carol Gains on Wednesday, 7th March 2012.
RE: RE: Royal Soldiers Daughters School (boarding) Rosslyn Hill
I was also at the school at the same time as Carol Gains in 1965, but only for 18 months, aged 10 with my younger sister, Christina aged 8. Our family name at that time was Lloyd Jones. I went back to visit last year, 2011, only to see that the old Victorian building had gone, but some of the grounds and the old wall remain. I remember we used to all congregate in the main hall for meals, (there was a gong, that used to resonate around the building) which had an elevated platform where, the then, Headmistress used to dine and survey us all. There was a tragedy whilst we were there, a matron, fell out of a window, seemingly, after trying to air or shake bedding.
Comment from Pamela Kember on Friday, 30th March 2012.
RE: RE: Royal Soldiers Daughters School (boarding) Rosslyn Hill
There was a Susan Sullivan born 1848, Scotland. She was in Tynemouth Barracks 1850 - Castle Barracks, Carlisle in 1851 and Rosslyn Hill in 1861 - age given as 14. Her mother was Johanna Sullivan, born Ireland c.1825. Does anyone know if there are any archives for Rosslyn Hill which will cast light on Susan's origins? Many thanks, John Baldwin, Scarborough.
Comment from John Baldwin on Saturday, 5th May 2012.
RE: RE: Royal Soldiers Daughters School (boarding) Rosslyn Hill
That gong, and the raised platform was there in my time too - about 1948-50! Somehow, though I never remembered the occasion, a photo was taken of us all as we sat at our dinner tables in the hall - I think we were dressed in gingham aprons at the time, made for us by the seamstress who lived down below the stairs somewhere, and we occasionally visited her for new (second-hand) sandals and fittings for summer or winter dress. And we had a sanitorium with air-ducts behind the beds downstairs too, into which we ( well I) used to get rid of porridge. I liked the spoonful of malt which followed after the castor oil in the morning from nurse.
Comment from Pat Weedon on Saturday, 5th May 2012.