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I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by bernard.hagon

I was a boarder at the convent. I started in the Autumn term before my 5th birthday and remember being put to bed in a large dormitory on the top floor, full of other children with a cubicle for a nun to sleep ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Marius Rowell

I was a boarder from 1956 to 1960. It was a boys only school at the time , and there were around 28 boarders from first to sixth form. I belief there were around 240 boys total at the school. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by Paul Roper

Goodaye Elaine, and greetings from the old country. There's a book about the order called "We agreed to be different" which has been posted on the web, and mentions your old school on P36. This story about the nuns has been written ...Read more

A memory of Pantasaph by Mary Rutley

I was sent to the convent after my Father died in 1953. My Uncle had been educated there many years previously. I can confirm the recollections that have been put here of the vicious way in which some of the Nuns treated us. ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Alan Yardley

i attended this dreadful school as a boarder when i had just turned 9. The headmistress was Miss McVicar, a remote and outwardly very Christian woman, though this never translated to ...Read more

A memory of Wickham by Mary Ann Godwin

I was born in June 1944. My mother started labour in Farmcombe Rd (the Sussex end of TW) but delivered in the Kent & Sussex (the Kent end of TW). The Kent Sussex border ran (does it still?) by the St Johns church, Pantiles. Does ...Read more

A memory of Tunbridge Wells

Anyone know Elizabeth bond ,Nicole 'de suza,Bernadette fromoe, Nancy black who s dad was a church minister

A memory of Uckfield by Heather Lyall

My first recollection of Dersingham was as a seven year old boy in 1941. My mother, sister and I were evacuated from the East End of London during the blitz ...Read more

A memory of Dersingham by Karen Ebert

They let all the local English kids go home for Xmas and us north of the border nuts were allowed to sleep aboard the Vindi, where we got into a pillow fight!! and I finished my last 3 weeks in 'Jankers'. Cheers Joe from Scotland.

A memory of Sharpness by Joe Docherty