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Rousdon, Rousdon House 1900
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Rousdon House was built for Sir H W Peek in the 19th century in an extraordinary mixture of architectural styles. The marble used throughout the building was retrieved from a ship that had been wrecked on the coast nearby. From 1938 until 1998 Rousdon housed Allhallows School, which relocated here from Honiton.

Memories of Rousdon, Rousdon House 1900

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Rousdon, Rousdon House 1900

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This photo is of what was Allhallows School Rousdon, after the house was sold by the PEEK family, of Peek Frean biscuit fame in about 1935 I believe. I went to Allhallows in 1944, and left in 1948 but my memories of the school were that of a difficult time. I remember we had some escaped German POWs supposedly hiding on the landslip cliffs towards the end of the war. There was a wonderful ...see more
All Hallows school was started in Honiton - now Honiton Museum - by my father's uncle John Murch and later moved to Lyme Regis. John Murch died in Bournemouth in 1959.