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KING'S MEAD SCHOOL SEAFORD. |
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Acknowledgements |
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I am immensely grateful to have been loaned the two albums carefully put together by Peter and Jane Barrett during the last year of King's Mead School, including photographs of all the painted wooden panels giving names of all those who had been at the school as well as many images of the school buildings and members of staff. These albums also hold potted histories of both the school and of the chapel as well as lists of those whose memorials are to be found in the chapel and lists of those who had presented leaving gifts to the school |
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Seaford Museum and Heritage Society
has been invaluable in allowing access to
archive material, including the Leaver's Book in which
most if not all the boys leaving the school are named
along with the schools to which they subsequently went. Kay
Turvey, Mick Barrett, David Taylor, Pat Berry
and other members of the Society have been very patient
and helpful in providing me with useful information as
well as taking time to scan images for the web site from
photographs held in the museum. I am grateful to Pat
Berry for the gift of some slides she took of an old
scrap book of King's Mead. The coffee was also very
welcome. For those turning out their attics the Museum might well be very interested in any archivable material relating to King's Mead. |
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| Seaford Museum
and Heritage Society P.O.Box 2132 The Esplanade, Seaford East Sussex BN25 9BH |
Tel: 01323
898222 e-mail: webmaster@seafordmuseum.co.uk web site: www.seafordmuseum.co.uk |
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Many others, who have provided either invaluable help, advice, information about Old Boys and/or material to put on the web site, include:- |
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| Mrs Claude Allenby " His Honour Marcus ......Anwyl-Davies QC Bob Armitage Jane and Peter Barrett Claudia Beamish Peter Bowles Erick Curzon (Earl Howe) David Davison Jim Dunn Martin de Laszlo Julian Fitzherbert Richard Garland Robert Gibbs Richard Grievson Martin Gwynne |
Ben
Halligan Brigadier Tony Heywood John Hissey Hon Maurice .....Howard Euan Houstoun Ann Hubbard (nee Sandeman) Peter Ingram John James Peter Kerruish Stephen Kerruish Lord Keyes Chris Laughton Hugh Lee John Leigh Barry Lewis Ian McAlpine |
Stephen Mackenzie Sir Digby Mackworth Michael McInnes-Skinner Henry Osmaston Geoffrey Paton-Pollitt John Previte Ian Robertson Michael Shellim Nigel Slater John Spencer-Smith Richard Steel Nick Taylor Andrew Thomson Sir Lawrence Verney Richard Wall Paul Williams Mrs M Williams |
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Special thanks to Earl Howe (Erick Curzon) for both the quizes that he produced (2002, 2021) from his phenomenal memory. Many others have also offered their advice and services, which we will readily use when the time comes. I am grateful to Lynda Felton-Scott of Westminster Healthcare, Manager at St Mary's Nursing Home, for her help in allowing many of us to visit the chapel and school buildings and, in particular, allowing me to retrieve the named wooden panels that used to be in the dining room as well as a number of the chapel chairs which I hope to be able to return to the families whose predecessors presented them to the school. We are also immensely grateful to Barratt Developments who generously set aside a corner of the King's Mead estate and created within it the King's Mead Memorial Garden in order to commemorate the school and those pupils who later gave their lives in World War II. Little of this web site and none of the efforts to preserve the Chapel and memorials would have been achieved without the many hours, phone calls and e-mails spent and made by Peter Bowles, Eric Curzon (Earl Howe), Peter Ingram and John James. Finally, my thanks to my own family who have tolerated my relapse into nostalgia with good grace but who probably now see me as little more than an appendage of our computer. David Maxwell (Updated 28/12/21) |
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