Lyme Regis, Summer Hill 1909
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Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis. Then the house became nationally known for the most liberal educational regime in the land. Summerhill School was founded here in 1924 by the child psychologist Alexander Sutherland Neill (1883-1973). As described in his autobiography 'Neill! Neill! Orange Peel!', it was a free school for the problem children of problem parents. The name went with it when Neill moved the school to Leiston, Suffolk. Meanwhile, at Lyme in 1930, Mrs T G Miles was the proprietress of Summerhill Private Hotel. It has since been greatly extended, with additional wings, and converted into prestigious apartments.
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