Churcher's

A Memory of Petersfield.

This starts in 1938 when I was taken by my mother and ended up having tea with Bill Hogarth - Chinese tea, horrid. That September I started in Form One to be loudly proclaimed by Bill 'a dunderhead' as I could not understand Latin and most of the class had come through the prep school where it was taught. The result a hatred of languages since then. Held back in Form One I went with my mother and sister to Malta where Dad served in the Navy. We were evacuated from Malta two weeks before Italy declared war but could not get back into our own home, so for the remainder of that school year I was at Loughborough College. Returning to Churcher's for the start of the 1940 - 41 year I stayed there till 1946. Emanuel School had been evacuated from London and used the classrooms in the afternoon while we had them in the morning. They played sport or had Cadet Corp in the morning whilst we had those activities in the afternoon. One day we were having lessons in a room under clock tower when the alarm sounded but as the trenches were full of water and a long way to go they were never used and so we carried on with lessons. Emanuel cadets were marching round the cricket square when a bomb was dropped on what was then called a workhouse, just downhill from the school, and many of the occupants were killed.


Added 06 July 2013

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