Just recently, I visited the Archivist at Battle Abbey School, and she showed me the 1939-1945 Roll of Honour, which mentions both Maltbys and also one of the Hankey family.
Can anyone recall if this was on the wall in the main hall? (or anywhere else for that matter).
The board actually arrived via Glengorse, but I feel sure that it only has HHS OB's names, and no others!
(Apologies for the quality of the picture, the board is on a wall in a very dark area of Battle Abbey School, and a flash justs reflects back)!
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Hello Mike,
I only remember the board at Glengorse, where it was above the fireplace in the dining room (dining doesn't seem the appropriate word due to the food quality!). The Glengorse war dead had their names carved in a panel(s) (possibly both world wars) in the chapel there. I am pleased that the board has ended up at Battle Abbey School, since it was still at Glengorse when I looked around the place in about 1989 after the Battle Abbey prep school had left the Glengorse site. I wrote to the then headmaster of Battle Abbey saying that they should take it, but as I said previously, they owned the "school", but not the property, and it wasn't clear who owned what.
All the best, Edward
Morning Edward,
Many thanks for this, I've forwarded your information to Battle Abbey! Sorry to be so tardy on replying - I thought I had, so age still creeps along...
A good friend and contemporary, Roger Emett, remembers that the board at HHS only had Hydneye names, so presumably the others must be Glengorse boys!
Best wishes, and thanks again for contacting us all!
Mike
I was at Hydneye in the 1950s. Did you have an older brother (Anthony?) there was an Armitage there when I was (We ran away together!)I can remember the Memorial mounted on the wall at Hydneye directly in front of the front door, as one walked in. I have often wondered where it went, Gerald Brodribb gave me the contents of the "museum" when the school closed down. Give me a ring on 07736 109509 if you like.
David Worrow
Morning David,
I remember you as we were in the same form - most of the time! I don't have a brother, and I'm wondering who might have been the chap you're thinking of!
Your 'trip' to Hastings Station was with Tim Bosher, I was still recovering from falling out of Caxton's window one night, when Rodney Brien popped his head round the door all worried and told me what had happened...!
I can only vaguely remember the memorial too, it seems this is the joint one with Glengorse!
Stephen Hankey was my uncle who during the war was a pilot with the SOE trgically died on the 17th December 1943 while landing in thick fog near Arundel.
He was married to Elizabeth Papillon who's family lived in Crowhurst Park estate - just down the road.Stephen is at rest in Cowhurst's local church yard ?
Morning Peter.
Thanks for this, I hoped you would see the post eventually!
The board is well displayed in Battle Abbey School now, and is the sort of memorial which will always be on show!
I am Stephen Fry, 1952-57
Just discovered this site - very curiously, with my birthday approaching on Dec 3 I remembered that every year I remember one other boy had his birthday one day before - name Whitehead -
a fact I remember every year and never do anything about. This year something encouraged me to look up "Hydneye Whitehead" on Google; this is the result. If I figure how, I will post a mass of photographs I took at Hydneye - may be amusing to contemporaries who would include Young, Crook, and numerous other names that I found on one of these posts and was surprised to find were all very familiar - having completely forgotten about them over 5+ decades!
Anybody want to give me a pointer on how to post photos ?
Best memory was making twist in Scouts over a fire in the woody bit to left as you drive in. Second best memory was discovering the magic of 35mm photography when I pointed an old camera received as a gift at colleague Crook and saw him - inquisitive! - live human being! looking straight into the lens! - appear in the developing dish.
Went back around 1975 (??) where GB was still around but the school closed. He showed me and a friend how humans can all use divining rods to discover metal. On a later chance visit I saw the buildings had been - disappeared !
Also the cedar trees that were massive when I was 7 were now.. tiny!
One colleague was the genius who wrote this four-line poem that I never forgot for its simplicity - and author's age:
Below us lies the Weald of Kent,
Veiled in mist, all dim and grey;
The trees now wither with leaves all spent.
This is a real November day.
NOt bad for an author max age 12. WOnder who it was ?
Hi Stephen! Welcome to the site!
I well recall your name as an old boy, but you had left when I joined in 1958!
I can easily help you with photographs if you'd like to email them to me at 2ndmktx (at - the usual sign) gmail.com. There's no way to put them on direct, but there are lots of others from OBs who have sent them for publication via me and they'll be quite safe!
To answer your query about Derek Whitehead, I knew him well, we were both in Cranmer Dorm too. He lived in Icklesham close by, and hopefully still does! I think he had an elder brother too. His mum was a JP with my dad, and they were good friends!
I've also got some poetry by you here, from the 1958 magazine too! With your OK, I can publish that for you! You also won the school reading prize in 1957, as well as coming third in French!
Get in touch if you like, there's plenty more, and I suppose a long labour of 'love' would be to scan the dozen or so mags I have here...
Best wishes,
Mike Armitage
j a g ferguson. i was at hydeneye under maltby, he beat me with a slipper for some unremembered transgression, and brodribb whose wife called me fergie. memories of bowling out an opposing school, with the very able help of asif fancy,
for 13 runs. colts. should never have been made vice captain of cricket the next year. favouritism.
i saw tim satchell, journalist, 20 yrs later at a dinner in london, he repeated a joke he'd told me in the dorm,"it's a long, long way to tipperary"
does anybody know the whereabouts of weller or castle from those days?
Hello Stephen
I can just remember coming to stay with you and your family some 60+ years ago, it must have been a 1/2 term . When ever I go to Bucklers Hard these daysit always brings back memories.Peter
J.A.G.Ferguson! I remember you well! We were all in Cranmer at some stage, you had the bed next to the dorm pre!
Your cricket skills were well-known too! Didn't we play rugger at the same time too? Wing forwards?
Tim Satchell used to write a column called 'Tim Satchell's London' or similar. He was a great chap and I well remember his production of 'My Fair Ad-man', which he told me he had pinched from Mad Magazine I think! Tim's unwell, and was in the papers for a sad item where he told everyone he had MS. I was looking through some junk in the roof a few years ago, and found my old autograph book, and he had signed it. I wanted to show him the signature, but unfortunately he seems to have vanished.
Don't remember Weller, but Paddy Langdon told me that Mark Castle was still around - somewhere... I'll ask him when we next have a pint!
I'm sorry I seem to have missed your comment last year, I usually get them in my email alerts, but the occasional one goes walkabout! Please get back when you have a few minutes spare! Best wishes! Mike
Stephen (Fry), I have a scanned page with the poem and will publish it as a new post!
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