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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 15 Attending School

Credit line: Joe Nobbs talks about moving schools.

Transcription:

Interviewer: You went to Miss Wellend’s school, how old were you when you left there?

Interviewee: I can’t remember how old I was when I started and I can’t remember how old I was when I left but I wasn’t there that long, maybe about a year, and after that I went up to [a school by Stroud House]. This was War time and what had happened [was] a school had been chucked out from their buildings and Stroud, presumably [they had] been taken over by the War effort, and looking for a new place they came up here.

Interviewer: This is Stroud, Glouchestershire Stroud?

Interviewee: This is Stroud down in Somerset.

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