I can just remember that a good friend at HHS, Roger Bray, got hit in a very painful place during a batting session. Mr Trendle said that the time that we should be issued with boxes and wondered why we weren't!
Can anyone recall if such items were on the clothes list?
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!
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)!
Some time ago, Jay Simson sent me this photo of the school which has to be from the original Beaulieu days, as I don't recognise the scene at all! Jay's Father is E.C.L.Simson, fourth from the right, back row! The photographer from Eastbourne is signal as well!
Edward Halsted has been in touch, and we've had several chats online recently!
A click on the link below shows an impressive career in theatre, film and TV, and there are too many recognisable titles to write here! The link at the bottom can be cut 'n pasted for everything!
Ed says that he's unable to get to Sedlescombe in a couple of weeks time, but of course the invitation is still open to anyone coming along to the Queens!
Hi Mike
I've just come upon your old boy blog so thought I'd say hello. We must have been at the school at the same time - I was there from 1960 to 1963 I think. It was good to scroll through the posts and photos; a few faces and rather more names were familiar.
I came back for a reunion a year or two after leaving and, then, stopped off in 1975(?) when I was working locally to find the place deserted. The doors were open so I walked round the house and grounds and met a few ghosts.
I haven't met any contemporaries since apart from a chap called Davis who came up to say hello after a show I was in. (Have been an actor after university and drama school since 1974.) I won't wait another 58 years to google the school.
Thanks for putting up the site - Hope you are keeping well while the plague is with us.
Yours Edward Halsted
edward.halsted@gmail.com
Spotlight Link:http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1933-9053-8506
(I got back to him, then...)
(Ed, I've left off your phone numbers, but can put them up if you want - Mike)!
ps, the link will have to be a cut and paste - the swap from the email somehow wouldn't let me copy it as a proper link! Apols too, for the formatting, it's been a bit of a b****r to transpose, hence the rather attractive type...
Another lunch in Sedlescombe, just North of Hastings, is planned for Wednesday 26th January, 2022.
So far we have a party of four, all HHS men from the late fifties/early sixties, but of course, anyone is welcome and I will bring the magazine collection from whatever year HHS inmates can remember!
Yesterday, I met with two old friends from my days at HHS - Paddy Langdon and Tim Masterman. We met at a superb pub in Sedlescombe,
https://www.thequeensheadsedlescombe.com/
...and spent a very pleasant couple of hours chatting over the school mags I'd taken along (they're all scanned and here now), and the goodwill flowed!
So it's inevitable that we'll do this again, and so we were wondering if there are any other OBs who might like to join us one day? We seem to have lost touch with nearly all the local names, so it might be a bridge too far for most people, but the idea's there for anyone who might want to make the pilgrimage one day, or, if you're coming this way anyway, I can easily get back to Tim and Paddy and we can meet up!
My email's at the top of the page!
