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The
Then and now.....
Page Three. Chilton School: as sketched
by headmaster Mr Pace the head master, and photographed recently…..
This is how it was in 1874, and also exactly
as it looked when my mother attended in the thirties under Mr Vowles, and I
attended in the fifties (still Mr Vowles) and early sixties (Mr Pace).
The entrance porch, as I remember it. I
think the flaming torch sign indicated that the school also housed books from
the
This sketch shows the infants’ class
room and cloakroom that were added in 1894. I remember school milk frozen solid
in that porch.
I
also remember the toilets in the playground around the back. They
hadn’t changed much since 1894….mains sewage didn’t come to
Chilton until about 1962. There was a huge hole in the road outside the school
when the latter was being installed. One day the
The mysterious new school that came…then
just vanished.