School Memories At Stjosephs

A Memory of Burwash.

I went to school at st.Josephs Salesian school a mile outside Burwash from 1939-1946
I recall there were about 10 pubs in the village and I stayed one summer with the Davies family who lived just before the church in a smugglers house where we went to bed through a hole in the wall .I remember the Hollamby's,Miles'and the Woodalls who were day boys.we all had some exciting and sometimes harrowing times during the war.I have been writing my autobiography with pictures for my family and recall a great deal of the eight years spent at the school.I was a Londoner I went there when I was 5 and my job was feeding the chickens helping hand milk the cows and using the shire horse to hay rake etc I spent 50 years farming through my work at Burwash.Of course it was a real village in those days,Last time I visited it was a vacant place with commuter jobs. and few real locals!!

i'm adding this on going to boarding school at 5 as i did at st.josephs burwash. my parents took me to the school by train from london and i was put into a class room and given a desk my parent then left and that was that when the period ended i was surrounded with lads asking where i came from etc and made lots of immediate friends.my first night i was a bit sad and a brother carol came to see me and took my teddy bear saying i would not need it.i did'nt mind as i never had it at home. after that i just enjoyed my 8 years there!!I may add my experiences there from my autobiography later?