Rousdon, Rousdon House 1900
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Rousdon House was built for Sir H W Peek in the 19th century in an extraordinary mixture of architectural styles. The marble used throughout the building was retrieved from a ship that had been wrecked on the coast nearby. From 1938 until 1998 Rousdon housed Allhallows School, which relocated here from Honiton.
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Memories of Rousdon, Rousdon House 1900
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This photo is of what was Allhallows School Rousdon, after the house was sold by the PEEK family, of Peek Frean biscuit fame in about 1935 I believe.
I went to Allhallows in 1944, and left in 1948 but my memories of the school were that
of a difficult time. I remember we had some escaped German POWs supposedly hiding
on the landslip cliffs towards the end of the war.
There was a wonderful ...see more
All Hallows school was started in Honiton - now Honiton Museum - by my father's uncle John Murch and later moved to Lyme Regis. John Murch died in Bournemouth in 1959.
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