Dear Warden House Enquirers,
Well I am downright flabbergasted that anyone should recall my old prep school. I could write a book about it and maybe I will.
I have tons of memories about other boys, the place, the staff etc and am rather sorry to read that it closed down, and was later demolished. I WONDER what happened to the old name boards in the main classroom? The piano we sang to? The geezers who taught us? One had fought in the trenches of the First World War, his name was Mr.Proctor. Most of my memories,unlike those of Tim Waterstone the famed bookseller who hated his time there, were pleasant enough. But then I just accepted life as it came, and enjoyed the good bits.
Crowborough was the first settled place in my life, with a Dad in the Regular Army we lived a hectic and unsettled life in many fascinating parts of the tottering and collapsing Empire. In Crowborough we lived in the smaller of the two Conan Doyle houses, it was magical,indeed it was called Fey House. At one point I met Dame Jean, Sir A's daughter. When? 1956 or 57 ish.
So what do you folks out there in electronic land wish to know? Or shall I write that slim book for you? I know nothing about the place or the Long family who owned it AFTER 1959. But I do have a clear photographic memory of it all and could draw a map of the house,grounds and interior, as any fule kno (pace N. Molesworth). In fact that is what I will do. yours amusedly, Richard Carlyon
ps
I have just had a flashback, one day Mr.Long asked us when was the last time we had been invaded. I said, by Germany,sir,during the last war (WW2) and got a painful slap across the face. NO, thundered he. I was about to mention the Nazi occupation of the Channel Isles,part of our land but decided that would risk another slap. I gained my revenge in the most unexpected manner...
