The dormitories occupied the upper floor of the old building. Each contained two long rows of iron beds, narrow...
Miss Winifred Pritchard taught Latin, Scripture and ancient history. She was spare, unsmiling and invariably dressed in grey. Her...
Mrs Edith Bellamy taught the youngest boys. She was a small, round woman with bright blue eyes and a...
Miss Agatha Cartwright had been headmistress since 1948. She was a tall, silver-haired woman who wore dark gowns, sensible...
St Bartholomew’s Preparatory School stood on the edge of the Sussex Downs, a square, red-brick building surrounded by playing...
By the closing years of the 1970s, it had become increasingly difficult to argue that England’s boarding schools existed...
For much of the twentieth century, England’s boarding schools lived according to their own calendar. Michaelmas Term. Lent Term....
Every boarding school possessed two systems of government. One appeared in the prospectus. The other lived in the corridors....
There are few places in England more self-contained than the traditional boarding school. Behind high brick walls and beneath...
To the outside observer, the playground was the freest part of the school day. Lessons had ended for the...
Every school has its own way of introducing itself to a new boy. Some rely upon speeches and prospectuses....
KOSTKA HALL — XAVIER BY THE SEA On the Brighton foreshore, where the salt wind came in from Port...