Maidenhead Schools

[Abiam2]

My Mother and her brother both went to East Street around 1912 - 1917 so certainly mixed.
Abiam2

[Julia108]

That's interesting, thank you. My grandmother was 10 in 1911.

[Lilac]

The school on Castle Hill, which became the Maidenhead youth club, was The County Girls School; opposite to this was Queen Anne House, the annex to the school.

[IMBER]

Gordon School used the County Girls School as an annexe after the County Girls moved out.  As I recall it was used as a Youth Centre or similar when Gordon eventually closed.

[Reading Boy]

Hi, I came across your post with images of Garden Cottages by chance. In the photograph of the street party I can just make out the shop on the corner of Holman Leaze that was owned by my grandparents (Their surname was Mealing). As a child in the 50's, I lived almost opposite the shop - house can't be seen in the photo.

I believe my mother may still have some photographs of Garden Cottages in the 1947 floods. If she can find these I'll post them. Maybe of interest.

By the time I started school (Ellington - 1956) I think some of the cottages in your first photograph may have already been demolished - the centre block - I've a vague memory of there being a block standing at each end of the road in the photo.

Seeing these pictures cerainly brought back some memories - mostly wet and muddy ones from falling in the stream that ran at the back of Garden Cottages and my parents house!!

Regards from Reading.

Hope this isn't too big!
Reform Road 1945 - end of the war.
And then the last GC 'A party held at Lower Garden Cottages' to celebrate the end of the war in 1945.

Had to modify this last post as I had them round the wrong way.  Think it's right now,
Abiam

Moderator comment: dates changed from those originally posted at Abiam's request

[Abiam2]

Hi and welcome to Roots Chat.  I am on holiday in California at the moment so cannot look at my information.  But I am certainly interested to see any photos you have and there are others on this thread who  will be too.
So please post them.
Thanks,
Abiam2

[Nifty1]

Hi.
 I found this site and became interesred as I  went to Elmslie on Castle Hill in the late 50s early 60s
I took boys up until the age of ten.
I am afraid that I can add no historic links but there are some photographs and  reference to people who were there in first half of the 20thC.

http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/b/2abdc808-bdf6-484e-b427-c15337e5f9e8

I was a weekly Boarder at Elmslie and fairly clearly  remember feeling desolated on my first day when my mother left me there.I was barely six and a half years old. The head Mistress's name was Miss Westlake and my form teachers were a Mrs. and Miss Williams who I think were mother and daughter.

I was once given 'The Slipper' for using my bed as a trampoline by Matron. There was a girl that I think may have been called Christine. She gave me a  brightly painted  model of an American Indian totem pole about three of four inches high. I still posses it. She told me about sex. I was not interested. More into animals, nature and climbing trees.

We used to walk down to the public swimming baths on the corner of East Street & Cookham Road. I remember my fascination at seeing a the exposed valves and coils of an old radio that had been dumped under a bush in the park where the teacher would take us on fairly regular  'Nature Walks'.

I would be glad to hear if anyone else has anything to add that I might remember.

[yogibeare]

I was born in Maidenhead, Wayside Nursing Home, and lived in Market Street next to my great aunt Edith Beare, a former headmistress at East Street school.  I went there for about a year until we moved to South Road and I went to Convent of the Nativity, College Road from 1949 to 1959.
There used to a public swimming baths on the corner of East Street & Cookham Road & I can remember walking there from the Convent.
Another branch of the Halfacre/Beare families were the Hildreths who owned a cycle shop in Market Street for many years
Joan Philp [nee Beare]

[imogen]

I was born at the nursing home on Castle Hill and lived in east street at the market street end at no.1 the house had a verandah covered in a climber with bright orange trumpets it was quite a sight in the summer. I went to east street for a while before going to elmslie on castle hill ,I knew miss beare she was the head then.my mother often spoke of her friend joan beare a little girl who died suddenly they would play together and go to tea my mother was very upset when joan died , Ithink you must be the same family.very best wishes  Imogen