https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPWPGOpd6t3i5pBy5kI2bKsrxkpT147evfsaKXuFrom previous post
Hi
I found this site and became interesred as I went to Elmslie on Castle Hill in the late 50s early 60s
I took boys up until the age of ten.
I am afraid that I can add no historic links but there are some photographs and reference to people who were there in first half of the 20thC.
http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/b/2abdc808-bdf6-484e-b427-c15337e5f9e8I was a weekly Boarder at Elmslie and fairly clearly remember feeling desolated on my first day when my mother left me there.I was barely six and a half years old. The head Mistress's name was Miss Westlake and my form teachers were a Mrs. and Miss Williams who I think were mother and daughter.
I was once given 'The Slipper' by Matron for using my bed as a trampoline. There was a girl that I think may have been called Christine. She gave me a brightly painted model of an American Indian totem pole about three of four inches high. I still posses it. She told me about sex. I was not interested. More into animals, nature and climbing trees.
We used to walk down to the public swimming baths on the corner of East Street & Cookham Road. I remember my fascination at seeing a the exposed valves and coils of an old radio that had been dumped under a bush in the park where the teacher would take us on fairly regular 'Nature Walks'.
I would be glad to hear if anyone else has anything to add that I might remember.
Picture was probably taken 1958-60 at Home Farm, nr Winkfield. Perhaps it was my birthday party. I think that the girl in front left was called Angela and was from Ghana. At the time I was living under the name Nigel Kirtland and pictured 4th from left in middle row.
