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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 18 Eagle At Museum

Credit line: Marjory Bayliss talks about the Eagle that used to be kept at Haslemere Museum.

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Interviewee: Robert Blockey, who was the Curator I suppose at that time, was young and very good with young people and he had I think it was an uncle called Captain Knight who had a live eagle and he used to have this in the museum on his arm and us kids used to go in on Saturday mornings and it was really intriguing. I can remember one day because he let it go and then of course it had old bits of rabbit or something that they fed it on and he always said it would come back. Well on this particular occasion it went down into Collard’s and appeared to disappear altogether and we all went rushing down Collard’s to see and eventually, of course, it did come back.

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