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Bushey Heath, Rosary Priory c.1955
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Originally Caldecote Towers, this startling edifice was a mid-Victorian private house, built for Captain Marjoribanks Loftus Otway. Described by Pevsner as 'a crazy display.... like a Harrogate hotel', it became Caldicote Towers School in 1891, and then Rosary Priory in 1926, after being acquired by the Dominican Congregation of St Catherine of Suric. It was sold in 1985, and is now Immanuel College, a Jewish secondary school.

An extract from Hertfordshire Photographic Memories.

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Memories of Bushey Heath, Rosary Priory c1955

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 Bushey Heath, Rosary Priory c.1955

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My name is Hilary Peck (Morris) I attended Rosary Priory from 1970 to 1976, my dear Mum who is 86 & still in good health was a teacher (needlework). Would love to hear from any fellow pupils, school days then were very different to today !!!
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Rosary Priory As A Student In The Late 50's
Hi does anyone remember the late 1950' at Rosary Priory? My name was then Jennfer Barnett. I can remember going on a trip with the school to Rome. I do still have photos of that. I used to live in Radlett. I was not very good at school!!! (have made up for it since). Hated the discipline, can remember been given a lesson the "facts of life" which was .. we should not sit in ...see more
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Added 07 January 2016

Denise Davies Nee Smith
I started at Rosary Priory in 1953 when I was 8 and left at 18. I was so happy there that our 2 daughters attended the senior school until we moved to Wiltshire. When I first started at RP the only building was the beautiful old original one, but both new blocks were completed by the time I left. A few years ago I visited the convent, which had been totally separated from the school once it became ...see more
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1966 To 1975
Hi, my name was Elizabeth Yeomans, I was in the same class as Zoe, Bernadette Parkes, Caroline(who was my best friend), Dawn , Kate, Laura and Angela. Would love to hear from anyone who was also there during this time. I was 6 in 1966 when I joined the junior school, and left at the end of year five in the high school, as we moved to Suffolk.
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