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Basil Allen - Hawes School, 1940s

Hawes when it was a day school kept the sexes separate, with separate door entrances and even separate external gates to go in. The entrance on Main Street that is now blocked up was the headmaster’s house. There used to be a big garden at...

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Jean Cockburn - Aysgarth...

I would go when I was five years old, to the Aysgarth School. Me two cousins would take me, just on their own, we used to walk on. Where the surgery is now, that was the school. And we had a teacher in one room, Miss Heseltine, which you started...

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