"During my last term at Alderwasley, my parents drove me down to Belmont for an interview with the headmaster Fr. Mark. Afterwards my mother asked Fr. Mark if he could recommend a good spot for a picnic. He suggested this place. My mother thinks it may have been called Camp Hill. She knows nothing about the tents in the distance! Have to give credit to my mother for most of the photographs, it's still a hobby of hers including putting them in albums."
"The two
pictures of modernish (would you believe spell check doesn't
recognise this word) building, are rear of Cantilupe. The left one a
shot of Cantilupe common room and two dormitories above. The right photo
is a view of Cantilupe stairwell, and through the windows one can
see the front
entrance and past that part of Kindersley on the right with Hedley on the
left and a lamp post. One can make out part of a window on the ground
floor
to the right of the stairwell this was the house masters day study.
House business was conducted here including the doling out of pocket
monies, signing chits, coffee evenings and last but not least,
canings."
"Spot the Tartan Beer barrels. In the left of the picture is part of the doorway to the school tuck shop that sold sweets, cigarettes, crisps, summer blazers, house ties, fizzy drinks etc. The used bottles (Glass) while I was there had a three pence deposit. Anyhow the beer barrels come from the sixth form union bar and that was based in the wooden hut to the right of Kemble house. The hut was previously used as the chemistry lab until the completion of the second phase classroom and labs addition to existing building also completed at the same time was the swimming pool which was behind and to the left of the squash courts."
"Part of the picture from the drain pipe on the right to the far right and including the unsightly TV antenna is Kemble House. Whose housemaster was at that time Dom. Christopher Jenkins (compulsory enjoyment!) Dom. Alan was the housemaster of Cantilupe at the time of this photograph. He never drew the curtains in his study, they were always closed. One can just make out part of the water tower in the top left, the housemasters study was directly above the main front doors and above that was a study for two sharing with bunk beds. To the left on the 1st and 2nd floors were single studies ten per floor and on the top floor at the left end was the house captains study (Dai Pook was house captain at the time) The two windows to the left of main entrance was a through corridor to the library further to the left, the corridor was the designated smoking area and had a stale smoke aroma. The library had a slightly raised stage at the rear that served as an alter for house mass a few times a week it also served as a waiting room for the upper forth to be called to the refectory, the common room was lower fourths waiting room, the smoking corridor was fifth and upper fifths, the sixth form didn't wait to be called. Just in front of the second drain pipe on the right was the side entrance to the locker room, showers and corridor to toilets and main foyer, the upper and lower forth weren't allowed to use the main front entrance. In the evening an incredibly heavy churn of milk was carried by two lower fourth boys to just inside the side entrance and milk was doled out to those that formed a queue for a pre-bedtime drink or to have with cereal. The top of the churn was very creamy and the bottom, white water. The roof of the building was covered in copper and a uniform green. The name of the Sunday paper holder was Macpherson. He was a year below me, 73 to ?? I think he had a brother or cousin a year below him, so he became Macpherson major, they were both in Cantilupe."
