Rudgwick, Top Of The Hill c.1955
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Photo of Rudgwick, Top Of The Hill c.1955

A Selection of Memories from Rudgwick

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. Here are some from Rudgwick

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If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

What an unexpected but pleasant surprise to have come across this picture of Pennthorpe Preparatory School in Rudgwick. Ironically I left the year it appears to have been taken and I remember my dormitory was on the far left on the ground floor. Although not in favour of children being separated from their parents at an early age sometimes needs must, and I can honestly say that I have nothing but ...see more
i have many memories of Rudgwick my favorite is of picking flowers in the woods for a week before Mothers day bringing them home and hiding them in a tub of water then putting them in shoes and giving them to Mum. i think she always knew but acted surprised
I was a boarder and mr White was the head master
This isn't a memory ......more of an appeal perhaps to any historian in Rudgwick. My mother, Una Griffin aged 15 and her sister Patricia aged 19 arrived at Liverpool from Bombay on the 5th June 1944. The were daughters of Jim Griffin, an army officer. Their mother, Annie Griffin had died aged 41 in December 1938 in Poona. On the Incoming Passenger List of the "Sibajak" they described their address in the ...see more