Simon has at last got up into his roof, and found these gems! Funnily enough, in pic 2, my home is somewhere on the far horizon...
Superb memories, Simon! Any more?
1. Me at the swimming pool (either doing a Winston Churchill or a John Wayne impression!)
2. Mr Geoghegan admiring my diving
3. W.A.S. Quekett (‘Beak’) near the top pond
4. A.M. Scott, with the Colts cricket pitch in the background
5. R.H.J.V. Kyrke by the pool
6. The top pond iced over
7. The passageway over to the stable block. (Taken from the sick bay where I languished for about a week with an eye patch after getting a cricket ball in the eye.)
8. Hydneye in the snow, looking from the front of the building up the west drive
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Pleasure to meet Andy Young today at the Battle Baptist Breakfast.Hope we get to chat further about H.H.S.
Hello
Thought you may be interested that Baldslow Memorial Hall have just placed an order for a memorial plaque to the war dead of both world wars. We hope to get it up in time for Armistice Day 2014. David Maltby is included and we have included a line for the boys of Hydneye who were always remembered at the memorial service at the tin tabernacle. Unfortunately, the names of the boys have been lost.
Morning Toby.
This is very good of you - thank you!
I'm racking my brains to recall if we ever had the names of the fallen read out, but am lost at the moment!
I'll ask some contemporaries anyway!
Best wishes!
Mike
Hello Mike
We have the plaque and will be holding an unveiling on 16 November at 3pm in the Hall(Harrow Lane). It would be great if the boys of Hydeneye could be represented by an ex pupil. Best wishes Toby
Dear Toby,
Thank you so much for letting us know! I'm sorry that I will be unable to attend, but will visit on another occasion if I may.
Best wishes,
Mike
Hello,
I was at Hydneye from 1968-9, and then Glengorse until 1977. I'm not sure, but I think there was a board with the names of the Hydneye war dead in the dining room at Glengorse. It might still be there, since it wasn't moved to Battle Abbey School (as I wrote to the then Headmaster saying it should be) after they left the Glengorse site.
All the best,
Edward
Hello Mike yes you are always welcome. Contact me on 756048 and I will arrange for the Hall to be opended.
Dear Edward thank you for the information. I will attempt to find out whether it is still there. We would like to provide a home in the Hall for the Old Boys as the school played such an important part in the life of St Peter's.
Best wishes to you both Toby Carpenter
Dear Toby,
I contacted the Company who now manages the Glengorse site via Cluttons estate agents.
They unfortunately said that the board is no longer there. I think it was still there when I was last at Glengorse in 1989. I can't really imagine why it was removed. Maybe Battle Abbey School would know something, but I somehow doubt it.
The E-Mail address of the Glengorse property Management Company is hpg.bradley@outlook.com
They sent me some scans of School (Glengorse) photos they've found, which I thought was nice.
You might have some luck if you can contact whoever owned the Glengorse site between 1989 and now, through the Management Company.
I wish you success, since I think it is a terrible thing if the board has been lost or destroyed. This is precisely why I wanted Battle Abbey School to take it in 1989, but apparently they didn't own it since it was considered part of the building.
With my best wishes,
Edward
Hello,
I've tracked down the board with the names of the Hydneye boys and masters who were killed in World War II. It is in the chapel at Battle Abbey School.
The names of the dead are read out each year at the remembrance assembly, and the focus of yesterday's assembly was David Maltby. The pupils are encouraged to lay their poppies under the board.
I was delighted to discover that not only has the board not been lost, but that the war dead are being honoured in a way I don't remember as a pupil.
All the best,
Edward
Edward, this is excellent news - many thanks for all your efforts to find the board!
All I can recall about Remembrance Sunday, is that we all had poppies to wear, and the usual one old penny was dished out before the service for the collection plate as normal. I really don't remember if the names were read out either, but I think it would have been the sort of event that GB would have encouraged.
Again, many thanks for all your sleuthing!
Mike A.
Edward, many thanks for your telephone message. I will be calling the number you gave to obtain the names. I will approach the committee, at the next hall meeting, to obtain funds to erect a plaque for the Hydneye Boys. I have recently discovered the original Baldslow plaques are held at St John's in Hollington who are excellent custodians of the plaques and other items from St Peter's. It is pleasing that Battle Abbey and St John's remember those that sacrificed so much. I do feel it is a shame that they are remembered so far from 'home'. I think it would be very appropriate if we could also remember them in the Village especially as we remembered them in the service at St Peter's. I am hoping that we will be able to arrange a service, in the Hall, in the future. I will inform the blog when we have finalised the arrangements. We will extend an invitation to you all to attend the memorial. You will also be welcome to see the plaques when you wish. Best wishes and many thanks for all of your help. Toby
Just in case you didn't see the article
http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/county-news/plaque-at-baldslow-village-commemorates-war-dead-1-6457970
Best wishes Toby
Thank you so much for this, Toby!
There's been a lot of work to arrange the commemoration, and I'm sure that all our friends and old boys will join me in expressing our appreciation!
With best wishes,
Mike
Mike - I was there at the same time as you - 1958-62 - a real jolt to stumble across this site. My aunt Jane was "Sister" at Hydneye when I first arrived - she is still alive and doing well on the other side of the world. But Christine Reynolds who was Matron, I think, died a while back. What an amazing collection of photos. I may well be in one or two of them but no longer recognise myself. I remember helping to dig the pool, build the theatre...acting in the theatre....Mr Hilder, Mr Evans, Mr Geoghan, Mr Trendall (who died very young in a swimming accident in the Mediterranean, I believe), Mr and Mrs Morrish - I remember them all. One or two were straight out of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, and Major Bowen who was the link with Brecon met a sad end, but on the whole I remember the place with affection. I remember your name, and a few of the faces.
Richard, it's great to hear from you, and I remember you very well! I'm so pleased to hear that 'Sister' is still with us, and no doubt the same lovely lady we all remember her as! Please will you send her my best wishes, as I can remember her being so very kind to me when I joined HHS!
When she left, Mary Kay joined us,and her assistant was Miss Norcock. There's a picture of them by the plunge bath here somewhere!
I have you down in one of the mags as going on to Sherborne! I think that was one of the bigger schools where quite a few Hydneye boys ended up, so presumably we were all doing something right back then!
My email address is 2ndmktx(.....at.....)gmail.com, if you want to write more at any time!
At this rate, I'm going to have to consider scanning all the mags, as there are still so many of us still around, and a quick search on Hydneye seems to bring our site up pretty quickly!
Best wishes, and thank you for getting in touch!
I didn't know about Mr Trendle, that was pretty awful, but remember Mr Cochrane, who was also killed in a flying accident a few years after he left! Major Bowen was the man behind me and a few others going on to Christ College Brecon, as he was an old boy from there! Sad end for him though as you rightly say!
Hello,
Christine Reynolds died on 19th June 2009, aged 97. I knew her as pre-prep mistress at Hydneye and then at Glengorse after the amalgamation. I think she retired from Glengorse & Hydneye in about 1975, but then began a new career teaching English as a foreign language! I always used to visit her when I was in Hastings staying with my Mum. She had difficulty walking in her later years, but was still mentally as sharp as a razor when I last saw her in 2008. She was an outstanding teacher of young children.
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