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The foundation stone had been laid by the Chairman of the Governors, architect鈥檚 drawings were on display in the Art Room and occasional sightings of 鈥渕en at work鈥� led us to believe that we really would be having a brand-new, all mod. con. school at last. How exciting to be the first pupils to enjoy a 6th Form study instead of the old building which was also the library and where Oliver Cromwell had been to school, showers in the changing rooms, and not having to go out in the rain to the old Army huts classrooms.

Yes we would be moving into all this at the start of the Autumn term. Roll on September 1939.

But this was rural Huntingdonshire, a reception area for evacuees and we were to share our new school with Londoners. They would use the school in the early mornings and late afternoons and we would attend during the middle of the day.

So, they moved in before we did!! Hitler had a lot to answer for.

However, there were compensations: the newcomers were all girls and some overlap of arrival and departure times offered new opportunities for we boys, though our own girls (it was a co-ed school) faced more competition!

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