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Headmistress at Nutfield C of E Primary

The Queen's Head c1965
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I visited Nutfield when I was 4 or 5 with my granny Lillian Curry - who was headmistress (a grand term for the head teacher of a 2 room school) of Nutfield C of E. She must have been appointed in the late 1930s and worked there for 20 years - through the war - and retired in the mid 1950s. She recalled the terrible smell of the trains she caught from Carshalton Beeches in 1940 after Dunkirk - the  soldiers had been transported in them after weeks of retreat across France and days standing in the sea waiting for boats.
I wonder if any of her pupils are still in the village?

Written by M Slingsby. To send M Slingsby a private message, click here.

A memory of Nutfield in Surrey shared on Friday, 21st March 2008.

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