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Cheshire / Re: Arclid Hall Sandbach
« on: Sunday 21 January 24 16:29 GMT (UK) »
I was the last Head boy at Holm Leigh, Arclid Hall in 1969. The school moved to Arclid Hall from Buxton in 1959 and I started there in 1964. The school suffered from falling pupil numbers and finally closed in 1969 with less than 30 boys. The school Headmaster was Mr Fallows and he had constant health problems in the last few years of the school.
I went back there a few years ago with my wife and the receptionist at the business that bought the hall was kind enough to show me around.
I first went there to board, in 1969. My parents used to put me on the train in Leeds on my own to be met by Mrs Fallows at Crewe with a change at Stockport and Stalybridge from the age of 8. Can you imagine any parent doing that now !!
I went back there a few years ago with my wife and the receptionist at the business that bought the hall was kind enough to show me around.
I first went there to board, in 1969. My parents used to put me on the train in Leeds on my own to be met by Mrs Fallows at Crewe with a change at Stockport and Stalybridge from the age of 8. Can you imagine any parent doing that now !!