martin_warwick

I used to go to the school in WWII. I went here in 1939 at the outbreak of war and was there until 1945 when through its good offices I won a scholarship to Alleyn's School in Dulwich. The headmaster was a Mr James and I'll always be thankful to him as he often used to give me special coaching presumably to get me through the scholarship. I always did this with a friend Willioam Bell (Dinger) who also got to Alleyn's. Unfortunately Bell always had bad asthma and I now find he died some years ago. It was wartime and we lived nearer Honour Oak in Kelvington Road and will always remember walking through Peckham Rye Park to school (about a mile) during air raids etc. accompanied by my mother. Our house survived the blitz but we had the windows and door blown in several times from bombs just opposite. Sad to see the school empty and run down but it is very old and was built in a different age - it was fantastic for me! Incidentally there is another school much like that one in Ivydale Road (Peckham/Honour Oak) built at the same era and empty. Just before I went to Frien Road School I went to that for a very short time and also with my older brother.