A Boarding School Second to None
What a dump Iwerne Minster was to a school boy of the 60's sent from London to that boarding school in the middle of nowhere. The locals spoke in a strange unintelligible dialect, the air was sometime thick with the stink of manure, and you had to be 14 to buy beer from the off-licence at Tarrant Hinton! Now, 50+ years on, it doesn't seem such a bad place at all. In fact, its quite nice down there. The beer is not so bad after all.
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I must say that sadly I have to disagree. When I first arrived at Clayesmore, I too a little lost and alone. However, after only a short while I grew to love the place and have never stopped loving my time there. I was at the school from 1956-1959, and although there must have been a variety of odours over my years there, I cannot recall one of manure. Is it not strange how ones memories differ. I returned to the school in 1998 to allow my daughter to see where her dad had been educated; she loved it! I have lived in Australia for nearly 40 years now, yet with all the vast spaces here, I do not know of any more beautiful setting for a place of education. Congratulations Clayesmore, and let us raise a cup to another century (at the least) of the best school in the country!
Comment from Brian Arpel on Saturday, 5th June 2010.