Hydneye House School

I’ve set up this website so that if anyone else is interested, there’s a forum for like-minded Hydneye House Old Boys who can read any notes which appear and comment if they like. HHS OBs - and others of course, can always email me on 2ndmktx@gmail.com, and send notes, pictures etc. in any form. I'll put them up in the posts, and attribute them as well! This is really our own place! All the magazines are here now. To see any of them, just click the arrows on the Blog Archive list!

Friday, 28 April 2023

Fire escape ladder...

I was reading a Nevil Shute novel from the 1940s the other day, and he was describing an internal fire escape ladder in one of the scenes in the book!

The recall began to grow, and I'm sure there was a red (?) retractable fire escape ladder in one of the passages at HHS!

Can anyone enlighten me please, as I've tried searching for such images and have found none!

I think it was situated somewhere along the passage between Sister's room and the high passage across to Wren, near 'The Blackwater' Lead Pedestal wc (remember that) at the end, but I could well be wrong!

Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Next HHS OB lunch...

Just to let everyone know, a few of us are meeting at 'The Queens Hotel', Sedlescombe on Wednesday 12th April around lunchtime!

I forgot that is going to be Easter week, but that might help some of us!

Does anyone remember the days when we spent Easter at school, as it came so early in the year? GBess would 'pool' everyone's sweets, (this was before a sort of tuck shop arrangement changed all that), and we all got one of the plastic mugs full of whatever was left in everyone's 'private' jars!

Sometimes you won; other times all you got was a few 'cheap sweets', (as Mr Miller used to call them)!