Hassobury

A Memory of Farnham.

I used to go to Hassobury School, Hazel End from 1960 to 1962. It was a lovely old mansion but sadly it is flats now. It was surounded by countryside and we used to go for walks with Mrs Lyle and she used to sit us down then read from the book 'The Lord of the Rings'.
On a Saturday we used to walk to Stansted with our pocket money to buy sweets, it seemed like two miles, but perhaps it was shorter. One day a week we used to go in a van for swimming, to Saffron Walden, Mr Lodge used to drive, no relation to my sister-in-law, although she did live in Manuden. On a Sunday before breakfast we had to cross the fields to go to church for communion, we had tea and crackers. I used to like the vicar's son, he was quite handsome. The meals were quite good.  I was in Miss Piper's class. One day a week we had cooking. We had to cook the dinner for our class and have a guest teacher to eat with us. I remember doing the parsley for the mash.
The teachers were Miss Camp, head mistress, Miss Libury. Miss Hibbs and the pupils I remember were Christine Reeves, Iris Irwin, Beryle Tozer, Penny Couisins, Hazel Gooch, Karen Ready and a few more. We stayed there for Bonfire Night, which was good fun. We had a wood nearby or part of the school. I climbed a tree and could not get down. Does anyone else have memorys of this school? I was Pat Redman.