1 – Boys’ Gate
2 – Girls’ gate
3, 4, 5, 12, 14 –
These grassy mounds housed air raid shelters.
6 – Sports
Pavilion
7 – The garden in
the quadrangle, framed by the glass roof above the corridors.
8 – Toilet block
9, 10, 11 – Horsa
huts, each housed two classrooms.
13 – The canteen,
a large Nissen hut that housed one class at its lower end.
In 1962/63 segregation was still rigorously
enforced in the playground. Separate gates into the school meant girls and boys
arrived on their own sides of the playground. There they played and there they
stayed, under the watchful eyes of Miss Pook and Miss Horsnell (a double act
that resembled Ena Sharples and Martha Longhurst), with a sex-offender’s
welcome for any boy that crossed the dividing line in a giddy game of chase.
The rule applied at every break, yet when the whistle blew and playtime ended,
boys and girls lined up together and returned to mixed classes. This
archaic rule would be scrapped the following year, when kids were allowed to
mix in the playground, and enter and leave school by the most convenient gate.
Head Teacher: Mister Pryor
Teams:
Seagull (Yellow) Swan (Green) Kingfisher (Blue) and Robin (Red). They’d
have been called houses at most schools but at Twydall they were only ever
referred to as teams.
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