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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 10 Leaving Godalming School

Credit line: Andrew White talks about leaving Godalming Grammar School at the age of 16.

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Interviewee: When I got to Godalming, I was absolutely lost there but I did buckle down in the end, out of it quite well. I left there at 16, no thought of what I was going to do for a living, didn’t seem to have any ambitions. So I left school at 16 and the next thing I knew my father took me the biggest local builders yard, Chapman, Larry and Pudick, and I signed up as a plumber’s apprentice.

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