Downhall School: A memory of Seven Kings

Downhall School

A Memory of Seven Kings.

I arrived at the Infants School aged 6, fresh from a tiny village school in rural Somerset. My abiding memory was of the outside communal toilets with a trough at the base of a wall which used to back on to the pavement of Aldborough Rd. We would compete to see who could reach the highest up the wall (if you know what I mean) and attempt to score a bullseye by actually aiming right over the wall onto the pavement.

A more respectable past-time was playing with our Dinky racing cars in the playground, I recall they always went faster backwards! As I write this I'm looking at my No.6 racing car, a Cooper-Bristol, on the dresser; it has weathered the 55 years since then a bit better than I have.

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Added 27 January 2009

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I went to Downshall from 1951. I was born in 1946. I met a girl on the first day. Her name was Cynthia Diable. Might have spelt her surname wrong. I was very upset when she moved a year later. I moved to the junior school and because there were problems at home resulting in us moving in 1958 I failed the even plus having been second in my class! I was devastated at moving. I was in the A stream at Downshall Senior school coming about fourth in the first years exams. Moving lost me guides, church, choir (Mrs
Robertson in Cambridge Rd) and a dozen good friends. I was not held back
and went on to have a very interesting and fulfilling life. Seven Kings has changed beyond recognition and I havent been back for over thirty years.
I’d rather remember it as it was. I played all the games others mentioned and went to the parks. I tried to find friends, in particular Elizabeth Davies or Davis who lived At 203 Cambridge Road. Rita Avery

By speedbird on Wed Dec 16th 2020, at 1:59 pm

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