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Wrens Warren Camp School
In 1949 I was a pupil at Wrens Warren Camp School near Colemans Hatch. The school was housed in long huts which I believe to have been used in the war. It was a school for children who had been ill and needed some form of convalescence whilst still able to attend lessons.
The headmaster was a Mr Punch, and the head for the girls was a Miss Hoad. We slept in long dormitories and the whole place was quite austere.
I would love to hear from any other member who was there.
Contributed by Maureen Davies
Sweet memories
Living at Forest House - just up the road from the post office. The school coach would drop us off at the bus stop, and on our way home we would stop in to what our family called "the little shop" to stash up on sweets. The shop was run by Barbara and Len Waghorn.
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Wrens Warren Camp School
In 1949 I was a pupil at Wrens Warren Camp School near Colemans Hatch. The school was housed in long huts which I believe to have been used in the war. It was a school for children who had been ill and needed some form of convalescence whilst still able to attend lessons.
The headmaster was a Mr Punch, and the head for the girls was a Miss Hoad. We slept in long dormitories and the whole place was quite austere.
I would love to hear from any other member who was there.
A memory of Colemans Hatch contributed by Maureen Davies
Sweet memories
Living at Forest House - just up the road from the post office. The school coach would drop us off at the bus stop, and on our way home we would stop in to what our family called "the little shop" to stash up on sweets. The shop was run by Barbara and Len Waghorn.
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Extracts From Colemans Hatch & East Sussex books
A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row.
Holy Trinity church was built towards the end of the last century and
features a copy of an Italian Pieta by Francesco Francia. Nearby
Hollyhill is a large house with a Jacobean façade built in 1885. In the
picture, heavy horses wait patiently by the stable while they are prepared
for work. On the roofline a builder stands on a scaffolding platform
repairing a chimneystack.
An extract from from"Villages of Sussex Pocket Album".
It is now time to leave
the town and what better
way than by train? This
station, the town’s third,
was opened in 1882 and
included accommodation
for the stationmaster,
who in 1911 was William
Langley.
An extract from from"East Grinstead Photographic Memories".
opticians; International Stores,
grocers; Freeman, Hardy & Willis,
shoes; Kerry, ladies’ fashions; and
Lovibonds, wine merchants.
An extract from from"East Grinstead Photographic Memories".
In this unusual view
looking south-west,
taken apparently from
an upper window of the
Crown Hotel, we see
the ever present line of
parked cars, the newest
of which, 6503MC, was
registered in Middlesex
in 1961.
An extract from from"East Grinstead Photographic Memories".
Looking north at the junction of the Crawley and Godstone roads we see the Star Inn, a much re-built 17th-century
timber framed house, although little altered since the 19th century. The Felbridge Garage was converted from a
smithy. An open top bus is heading for Lingfield, Godstone, Caterham and Croydon.
An extract from from"East Grinstead Photographic Memories".