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WHY DO WE NEED A BLETCHLEY & FENNY STRATFORD SCHOOLS WEBSITE URGENTLY? Many generations have attended this school over time and they all have their own memories. However, it is doubtful if there is anyone still living who attended the Fenny Stratford High Street National School at the time when the new Board School was built in Queensway (Bletchley Road as it was known then) in the 1890's. This website gives everyone the opportunity to share memories of their schools and gives a glimpse of the history behind the development of education in the local area. We would like to thank everybody who has contributed to this site. To see details of our contributors please click here. DOES ANYONE HAVE A COPY OF THE 1945 LITTLE KIMBLE CAMP MAGAZINE? Can anyone at Bletchley Road Senior School from 1943 to ’46 help? Alan Kay has lost his copy of the Camp Magazine, which was published after they returned to school . . . and his memories are fading! The Camp magazine contained excerpts from various pupils and staff. Poems, anecdotes, pictures etc., all produced on an old machine which had a wax sheet onto which the text and pictures were engraved somehow and the ink was then applied and a handle turned and if you were lucky, you got a reasonable copy from it! To see memories of the camp please click here DO YOU REMEMBER THIS VISIT BY AUSTRIAN CHILDREN IN 1947? We have received a letter from a Mr Fritz Hrbek wo came to Bletchley in 1947 as part of a group of undernourished Austrian Children. He was in Bletchley from September 8th 1947 - 13th November 1947. He stayed with a family called Ottery in Western Road and attended Bletchley Raod Senior School for a short time. He remembers Mr Parfitt, one of the teachers and being invited to different clubs to sing Austrian Folk songs (not very good singing?). If anyone can remember this visit, or can remember who arranged the visit could they please contact us. It would be nice to help this gentleman piece together his memories. REQUEST FOR INFORMATION There has been a request from Mrs Mary Bowen, a niece of Miss Dorothy Robinson, a teacher at Bletchley Road Senior School who was evacuated with her London County Council class to Bletchley on October 7th 1940, where she stayed until recalled to her own London Authority in the summer of 1942. Click here to read personal testaments to Miss Robinson from officers of the Bucks County Education Committee, together with the presentation of a gift from members of her class; also from other pupils. Mrs Bowen would very much like to meet anyone from Miss Robinson’s class and recalls, when a child, playing with a suitcase and saying “I’m Aunty Dorfi going to Bletchley”! |
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