Edenhurst Preparatory School

A Memory of Tettenhall.

Does anybody remember Edenhurst Preparatory School in Crowther Road?
It was a private infants and primary school and I, Paul Evans, was there from the age of about 5 to 8 years. This was back in the early 1950s. It was a big old villa with huge rooms (or so they seemed to me back then). On one side the school's owner, Miss Lola Perks, throned triumphantly over her small charges either from her high desk at one end of the classroom or from the piano at the other. I remember being quite terrified of her although, in hindsight, I don't think she was as fierce as all that, really.
On the other side of the corridor Mrs Strange (she really wasn't) assured the intellectual development of the older children. She was calm and quiet and very kindly and fought a losing battle with the open fire in her classroom during the cold winter months (whatever would Health and Safety say now?) when clouds of smoke occasionally drifted back down the chimney.
I have many memories of the place in spite of my then tender years. Names are more difficult although I remember with pleasure 2 sisters: Avis and Pat Bond, a girl called Barbara and a boy called Clive. There was a large lawn - more a small meadow - at the side of the school. When it snowed we made a human train and, one behind the other holding on to the person in front, we would trace winding, tortuous tracks making enthusiastic train noises. I never remember more than about 15 pupils in the whole school. When I was about 8 years old we moved from Wolverhampton to Shifnal and I went to the C of E school there where I discovered with horror that we were about 35 in one class! The big old house has long since been torn down to make way for several houses in a small development.

Is there anybody else out there who remembers Edenhurst - or me? I'd love to hear from you and we could exchange memories.

Paul Evans - now a little older, wiser(?) and living in Spain ...

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