Nostalgic memories of Sandon's local history

Share your own memories of Sandon and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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i remember the headmaster caning you backside until it bled, and he soaked the cane in salt water! also his dog walked around the dining room with excrement hanging from his backside!! not happy days for me??
Having spent 3 very happy years at Sandon House and after reading Alan,s memories of those wonderful times it reminded me of my own time at this wonderful school. I may have written his memories myself, we seem to have completed a similar life a decade apart. Fishing by the weir, trying to find Gracie in the early hours of the morning, or just running through the wonderful feilds alround the school. FANTASTIC. Than you for the memory jogger Alan.
I went to Sandon House School during the early to mid 60s. I remember Mr Wilkinson, I got the cane on a couple of occasions! I remember the playing fields where we played cricket and football and the sheds where the tractors were kept - used to have fags up there! I remember also the room where we used to change for sports and where we used to gather to listen to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones - so ...see more
I was a London lad, sent to the boarding school just off the Danbury road, called Sandon House School. I had some wonderful days there (and some bad ones), but that whole area of Sandon, Danbury, Great Baddow, and Chelmsford will hold sweet memories for me 'til the day I die. I was 13 when I went there in 1966, and I stayed 'til the summer of 1970. To be honest, I wish I could have stayed there, and have ...see more