1966 69 Happiest Year Of My Childhood

A Memory of Warnham Court School.

Reading all the memories, mostly happy, and recollections from both staff and pupils at Warnham Court has opened the floodgates to my own happy, carefree school days. Gosh, so many people and recollections! I have to start with the lovely Ernest and Marjorie Savage, they were such a wonderful, caring couple, whom I adored! I remember Ernest always wore a brown and cream checked shirt and a brown bow tie, summer and winter. Then there was Mr Woodcock, the Deputy headmaster, he and his family lived in the Lodge House at the bottom of the drive, he also ran the Young farmers club. How the young farmers hated having to muck out the Sty because the Sow was so vicious, but it was so funny when they had to leap over the wall of the sty to avoid getting bitten or squashed!
I remember some of my classmates, like Julia Turner and Keith Prosser, Julie Murphy, Chris Wadmore, Paul Wills, Pat Reynolds, plus two brothers, Anthony and Andrew, at least I think that was their names but I'm not completely sure. I have loads more faces that I cannot quite put names to!
Such happy memories of day trips to the North Downs and the South Downs, with our teachers, walking for miles under hot, blue, cloudless skies and sometimes getting up to mischief when they weren't looking! I remember a trip to Devil's Dyke and it was so steep we slid down on our backs to the bottom! I've still got a photo someone took of Julia T and I sliding down through Paul Wills legs! Then there was the Rodeo's during the summer, where we'd dress up as Cowgirls/Cowboys and Indians, and everything inbetween, trying to knock each other off a tree trunk with pillows, homemade bow and arrows and wooden guns, the boys trying to show off with lasso's. In the evening that was always followed by a bbq and music. There were proper Pantomimes on stage in the Theatre, put on for 3 nights to audiences in packed seats, just before Christmas term ended! Not quite so lovely was standing outside in the snow, on freezing cold, frosty mornings, waiting for the bell to ring for Assembly! Gosh, I have so many more memories stored away in my head.
If you remember me or any of the people I have mentioned please get in touch, as it would great to catch up and relive those happy times!