MEMORIES
I was only here for a short time, and can't remember the name of the people who ran it in 1962??  I went to Lode Heath High School just down the road, a mixed gender school, which I really loved, and did well in.  Met a boy in
the Hermitage called 'Alfred' or 'Albert' who took a real shine to me, and I him.  I remember sitting on the swings with him in the backyard and we'd sing 'Hey Paula' together, each singing the appropriate lines.  I had my very first professional hairdo in the hairdressers over the road whilst here, and walked into town every Saturday afternoon to go shopping with my friends.  The Hermitage was a huge, rambling house, but I remember it being
very happy, with some good kids there.  Also remember the boys sneaking out of their dormitory one night and coming to ours.  Pity of it was, I was asleep and didn't know anything about it until I was woken up by the staff
coming in and catching them, and punishing us all!  Even me, who hadn't been a party to it!  Happy days.
Julie Mills 1962