Blogetty Blog 8: A Home of our Own

Kindergarten at Parkfield School in Horsham was followed by proper day-schooling across the road at Springfield Park when I was six. Surviving term reports from 1934 tell me my class results varied from “improving” to “fair” to “very good”  in - guess what? – reading and history. Now there’s a surprise. Again it was ‘Mr Linny’ who chauffeured me and my younger brother Rupert to school. He used to…

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Blogetty Blog 7: Golden Years

My father’s 21st birthday party on 19th August 1908 was a splendid occasion at Warnham Court, the estate in Sussex owned by my grandfather, most notable for the astounding array of ladies’ hats. Friends and relations assembled from far and wide to celebrate; and very likely to take advantage of the gathering of male family members to play cricket. Guests at my father's 21st birthday party. Cricket was a…

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