Kingsfield School, Oxhey, Hertfordshire, England.
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This is the website designed by Robert Laws and Robert Wildmore for people associated with Kingsfield School, which closed in 1970. The school was probably founded in about 1933 but was refounded by Wilfred Sobey in 1940; he ran it until 1970 when he retired and closed it. Two teachers also spanned the whole of this period: H.W. (Juicy) Jacobs, who taught latin, and Nina Harford, who taught music. Wilf Sobey taught maths. On this website, each image normally carries an acknowledgement of the person who provided it. The exceptions to this are the images from Alan Laws's collection. His file contains all the documents he received from the school during the period 1962-1968 when I (Robert Laws) was a pupil at the school. The original server for this website disappeared so Jon Brewerton has uploaded it to this new domain Please contact Robert Laws or Robert Wildmore or Jon Brewerton for more information and to offer images and information for display here. The school is listed on www.friendsreunited.co.uk. |
Paul Leppard wrote: "From my researches I think Kingsfield School was founded in 1933 or 1934. In 1932 it was known as Freelands School situated in Kingsfield House. Kingsfield House appears on the 25" to the mile ordnance survey maps of 1898 and 1912. Adverts for Kingsfield School appear in Kellys directories of 1935 and 1938. In 1938 the headmaster was the Revd. R. E. Newton." "Kingsfield House was owned by the King family who had an interest in papermills. It was built about 1880. In 1928 it became Freelands School and the headmaster was L.O.G. Whitfield. Newton took over in 1933 and renamed the school Kingsfield."
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Some items, such as school photographs, play programmes and so on are specific to a particular year and I have gathered them together and filed them by year. Click on the year to see what's in it. (Some years don't have any content so you can't click on them.) The key beside each year tells you roughly what you will find there.
Note that Microsft's 'Internet Exporer' sometimes reduces the size of images to fit the page. You can have these shown at full size by pressing the 'enlarge' icon. |
Memories of Kingsfield by Mark 'Buster' Carpenter 1949-55
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The 'Old Kingsfieldians Society' is a loose, informal grouping of people who went to Kingsfield School. The society holds meetings from time to time; so far they have all been held in the bar of the Southern Cross Hotel, Watford: here .
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