Winnersh, Cross Roads c.1965
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Photo of Winnersh, Cross Roads c.1965

A Selection of Memories from Winnersh

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Winnersh

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Hello, I am Barry Newboult, I attended the RMNS from 1958 to 1962, and was assigned to Frobisher House. I left early to complete my education at Exeter Technical College. I would very much like to reconnect with anyone from the school who wishes to do so. My memories of the school are mixed, at the time I hated being there, but only later did I realise how beneficial my stay there had been, and ...see more
Music at The Forest Grammar School I taught music at 'The Forest' - 1954 - 1964. Thence to New Guinea (which I thought was in Africa! - geography not a strong point). For those who may be interested my website is at http//: www.durquhartjones.id.au Anyone remember our production of 'The Pirates'? I remember the pirate king who was a heavy smoker - a very nice chap whose name was Benson. I remember John Fanning's son David who as a very small boy hit me on the head with a hammer.
The Royal Merchant Navy School As far back as 1827 the Royal Merchant Navy School was established under the name of the Merchant Seaman's Orphan Asylum to provide a home for the destitute offspring of British Merchant Navy Seamen, with a view of assisting and benefiting them when disease, accident or calamity at sea deprived them of their chief support. The school when first established was ...see more
I arrived at Winnersh Halt Railway Station for the first time in 1946, aged 8 years. I had travelled by train from Newcastle upon Tyne with my suitcase and a label pinned to my coat accompanied only by other returning pupils. I was to start an eight year period at Boarding School, then known as Royal Merchant Navy School. The school was run very strictly at this time specifically for ...see more