Is this a school in Benington - if not what and where please?

[muso_bob]

Jen, sorry I did mis-read. I looked went and did something and came back without re-reading.
I read my quote in your message as your words.
I need to be more careful.
Bob

[muso_bob]

just realised I had my mother's stamped card identifying where she resided in 1945 after discharge end of war until she departed for Australia end of 1946 - November 1945 she was at "Fairbridge Farm School, Benington House, Benington nr: Hertford. One of the reasons for my post here. A most interesting card with its stamps. Not sure if its title.
Bob

[JenB]

just realised I had my mother's stamped card identifying where she resided in 1945 after discharge end of war until she departed for Australia end of 1946 - November 1945 she was at "Fairbridge Farm School, Benington House, Benington nr: Hertford.

I thought it was your father who was at Benington, as per your original post.

My father Walter Bedwell (deceased) was sent to Australia as an "orphan" [subsequently I have proved he was not an orphan] under the Fairbridge Farm scheme. He used to say that he was at Benington Farm or School in UK 

[JenB]

'....the doctor recommended my sister and myself go into this Fairbridge home at Benington in Hertfordshire. We were the two youngest. I think I was nine. The eldest sister was just old enough to go to work and the next eldest, my brother, went into a military cadetship.

Benington was in a beautiful, rural setting so it was really great. It was a holding area for children going overseas – Canada or Australia – so a lot of the children were only there for about two or three months. My mother didn’t visit very often. It was a fair way and I guess transport was a problem.'

http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/belongings/baker/

'.....it was a big manor house....... it’s quite an interesting place too. It was in the rural part of
Hertfordshire. It had a dairy facility and vegetables and a huge expanse of area for children to run'

http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/cms/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Fairbridge14-EddieBaker.pdf
 

[muso_bob]

Sorry should have added - my mother and father met during WWII both on active duty in the Air Force, so were an "item" post war. I was born JAS 1946. So I am assuming that my father took her to the school. They were both people with no ties! Don't know any more than that. I added the detail more to identify the name of the school my dad claimed he attended. My dad did travel to places he had links with when he was in UK for the war. He met his mum in1944 not knowing when he did and even after he had met Lily that she was his nmother.  My father was 22 and my mum 21 in 1945. My mum was educated in Cramlington. Bob

[muso_bob]

Thanks Jen for the added information. "A holding area for children going to Australia that fits - so my father did have a link with the school, however, not the building in the photograph. I may see if I can find Benington House when over there. Bob

[JenB]

I'm afraid there's definitely no way the school in the photo you've posted is Benington House - here's a photo of it  http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2280137

[JenB]

Bob, you said your father was born in Lambeth. So I'd suggest that this is where you need to start your search.

There are loads of old photos of Lambeth schools on this site http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk/default.asp

Simply put the word 'school' into the box marked 'image title'.

You might be lucky 

[KGarrad]

I could be wrong here, but I think Fairbridge Farm School was in Australia?
On 15 April 1912, Kingsley Fairbridge and his wife Ruby Fairbridge arrived in Albany, Western Australia, from England and made their way to Pinjarra, arriving on 16 July that same year to establish the world's first Fairbridge Farm School.

Perhaps The Old Fairbridgians Association can offer some background information?
http://oldfairbridgians.org/history/