High Cannons School.

I used to get on the Gold Star coach at the end on Brook Rd to go to High Cannons. wonderful old manor house converted to a school.
Pete Baldwin used to cycle to school, we doubled up to beat the bus home via Potters Lane to Brook Rd. My memories of Miss Lilley (head mistress) and a wonderful New Zealand female teacher are still fresh. The maze and the Ha Ha at the front were great for adventures! The site of the rhododendrons were fantastic for a recent import from south London.

We moved from Stepney, East London to Borehamwood in the early 1950s and moved into a flat at Thirsk Road. I also went to High Cannons. It was a lovely old school and we loved playing in the grounds and made camps in the huge rhododendron bushes. I was in Mr Castell's class and remember Miss Lilley too.
After High Cannons I went to the new Parkside School at Aycliffe Road and we moved from Thirsk Road to Stapleton Road, opposite Campions Secondary School. My maiden name was Geraldine Bancroft and my sisters Pam and Beryl also attended Parkside, as did my brother Dennis. Not sure if my youngest sister Hazel also attended Parkside.
After Parkside I went to Queen Elizabeth's Girls Grammar in Barnet. I left after O Levels and started my first job at Barclays Bank in Shenley Road.
I now live in Queensland, Australia and visit the UK every couple of years as I have family in Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.

We lived in Stapleton road and went to High Cannons on a coach as there were no schools built i loved it there playing in the rhododendron bushes and climbing trees. we used to line up for dinner in a corridor which we all thought had a secret passage behind it. I remember Miss Lily she helped my sister so that she was able to go to the grammar school.I went to Parkside after that. all the children used to play in the streets together and in the fields behind the houses in Stapleton road. My name was Joan Brewer.

It must have been around about 1953, whilst we were waiting for the new schools to be built when I was selected to attend a temporary school called High Canons, which was a very large white mansion that was situated in Well End; about three miles outside Borehamwood.
We had to travel there by coach which used to pick us up every morning in Nicoll Way, just across the road from where we lived in Knebworth Path.
In 1953 we were experiencing some very cold winters with plenty of snow which always had a picturesque effect on the surrounding countryside.
Every morning, I would cross the road in Nicoll Way, and then board the coach that was waiting to take us to High Canons.
I had a little school satchel that was packed either with jam or luncheon meat sandwiches that my mother had made for me because in those days we could not afford to have school dinners; but I did sometimes, only if my parents had enough money to pay for them!

We were 3 cousins at high cannons school john joan and bery wakelin.
I clearly remember coronation day when they gave us white chocolate and a mug