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Christmas Deliveries: If you placed an order on or before midday on Friday 19th December for Christmas delivery it was despatched before the Royal Mail or Parcel Force deadline and therefore should be received in time for Christmas. Orders placed after midday on Friday 19th December will be delivered in the New Year.
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Hobbayne School
A Memory of Hanwell.
I attended Hobbayne from 1957 -1963. Who remembers Mr Ridley? Unfortunately I found myself standing outside his office on a number of occasions waiting upon the Headmaster's wrath for some minor misdemeanour!
I spent a lot of my free time at Churchfields and the Bunny Park and "loitering" on the green in Cuckoo Lane. A wonderful carefree childhood.
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I was there just after you. Miss Morrell taught me for my first term as an infant. She was wonderful. We moved when she left. I hated my next school and came back to Hobbayne a few years later until I scraped past my 11 plus.
Mrs. Thomas was my music teacher. She actually taught me something - a love of music that has lasted all my life. I've just found out that the G.A. was Geoffry Arthur. I met Mr Ridley many years later at his home in Nottinghill Gate London. He was gardening and invited me in for a chat. He gave me a glass of sherry and asked me - as a test - to always genuflect as I passed. I think I my comment was that my knees bent as I walked anywhere - but I'm not sure if I thought of that at the time. I may write about my experiences - I've got a lot to say...