Sandon House School
A Memory of Sandon.
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 outrageous at the time! I remember being there when Sir Winston Churchill died, and when the Bay of Pigs incident happened, wondering if we would all be frazzled in our beds! Fun times but on occasions not great - Mr Wilkinson had this terrible habbit of making you sweat for a few weaks before making his mind up weather to cane you or not!! Love to hear from anybody who remembers me.
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Kitts / Carey / Addcock / Ayre were even worse
Mixed emotions through the years, but often think of it. Been back a few times & strange to see it a small housing estate, main house now swanky apartments... Where did long on long end up ? I remember the swimming pool ran off into a pond & was alway full of slimy green freezing water.
Mr Ayre took over the sports duties when The Beak got too weary to be able to continue. We called him Winkle from the day he started. ('Airy Winkle)
Geoff Adcock and I got on well because I loved English Language and History.
I remember the feeling of doom which hung over the school when President Kennedy was shot in Houston, Texas. A Canadian boy, Gary Ferris, was particularly upset as his home was in Vancouver BC and he thought that was where the Russian bombers would hit first.
I remember Churchill's funeral and the whole school watching on TV.
So many events have been recalled by reading the comments here. I'm off to find the Sandonian!
I recall having to write the school Diary for special occasions, and walking in to Sandon village church on a Wednesday evening to practise the bell-ringing with Mr Pat Saltmarsh.