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To Mr Nostalgic

I would be very interested to see your photos and other memorabilia of the Wedges camp school. I was there for only two terms, autumn and winter 1950/51 or maybe a year later - I cannot remember exactly now.

Malcolm G Hill 

Re Wedges camp. I was there for two terms, summer and autumn of 1951 and remember several of the names of teachers mentioned by other contributors. In particular Mr Olerenshaw the headmaster, the two superintendents of the Lister bunkhouse/dormitory, Mr Chalk and Mr Gardiner. Everyone had to belong to a so-called "club" for evening activities. The first term I belonged to an adventure club which taught us all sorts of scouting techniques; we went on extended walks in the local countryside. The second term I joined a theatre club, where we had to recite poetry and learn how to act; as a rather shy boy I hated it. At the weekends we were let out to roam the locality and would walk to Toat Hill, Five Oaks or Barns Green or even as far as Christ's Hospital school, all through the wonderful surrounding forests or country lanes and farmers' fields. At Christmas there was a dance and fancy dress competition which I won when, as a red-headed boy, one of the teachers dressed me in a brown sack and stuck some bush branches on my head and dubbed me Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer, which was the name of a popular song of the time. In all, I had a wonderful time at Wedges.