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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 9 Godalming School

Credit line: Andrew White talks about attending Godalming Grammar School.

Transcription:

Interviewer: Where did you do to school?

Interviewee: To Godalming Grammar School. Completely out of my depth really. I was issued with a season ticket with the bus, a season ticket with the train, bought a new satchel, a jacket and a cap and sent off to school, I didn’t even know where it was. I remember Father said: ’Well you can go with the others, they’ll know where it is, you can follow them’. To get into a school like Godalming after Shottermill, it was enormous, [but] that was it. Stuck it out there for however long it was. Didn’t do very well most of the time and then we sat General School Certificate at the end. Again, they got the exam papers mixed up and I got a reasonable mark.

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