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Schooldays in Haslemere

Between the 1940s and 1960s, Haslemere had a variety of different schools. Private schools included St Ives, which at this time was a school ran by the Parents’ National Educational Union and as such emphasised the teaching of nature studies and the arts. The Haslemere School on Chestnut Avenue was opened on 22nd April 1900. It was originally designed for some 220 pupils and built by public subscription. There were also smaller schools such as Hillside School, situated for a time on the Petworth Road and run by the formidable Miss Welland, and Shottermill School in Lion Lane. Woolmer Hill, today the only secondary school in Haslemere, was built in the 1950s to satisfy requirements of 1944 Education Act.

Track 3 Museum Plants

Credit line: Audrey Bayliss talks about learning flower names.

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Interviewee: Because going to school we always passed the museum and going out backwards. They used to record the first flowers, wild flowers. There was always a great list in the museum of the time when it was brought in, they had to have seen it or something and I really got onto that. I think I learnt the names of wild flowers because of that. It was lovely. And they published it in the Herald every Thursday or Friday or whatever it was of the month. It was the first recordings of a flower that was really out and most of my field work was better there than at college or anything else. It started us off so well to recognise plants.

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