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Posted by Marilyn Morris on 02 March 2023

My mother was a boarder at Mayfield from 1936 to 1940. She is now 98 and remembers life at Mayfield. Cold, not much food, no bathrooms, water frozen in jugs, tennis out the front in summer and an apple tree.

Posted by Annie Pomeroy on 24 May 2023

On my website Sarah Children you will find Jeronimo Hornblow . https://sites.google.com/view/www-sarahschildren-uk/notes-additional-research Sarah Hornblow was my 4 x great grandmother 1 of 10 or 11 children born to the Baptist Minister at Braintree. She migrated to South Africa . At first I thought he was brother of Sarah, BUT he wasnt born until 1782 apprenticed in 1797 age 15 William Spencer 6 Apr 1797, Grocers' Company. https://sites.google.com/view/www-sarahschildren-uk/her-father-rev-john-hornblow So this might be the father or grandfather of Sarah . Her grandfather was Jeronimo Hornblow and his wife Mary Mee . A malster B 16 April 1718 in Mildenhall Wilts. A Malster was the man who germinated the barley corn to make malt for brewing all kinds of beers. He married Mary Mew in Upton cum Chavley in Buckinghamshire 1st Oct 1743 where Jeronimo was recorded as Jeronima - 1718 living near Malborough was a time when cheese making flourished thus one could surmise he might also have been cheesemaker . I still looking but Id be most interested to hear more about the document you found. If you put Puttall Farm into Google maps you will find it just east of Malborough to the north of A4 .

Posted by Annie Pomeroy on 24 May 2023

To locate Malborough maps go to https://maps.nls.uk/view/101463041 Easiest to go to GENUKI - Wiltshire - Malborough - maps National Library of Scotland You will find the sanatorium almost in the centre of the town on the 1939 map

Posted by Michael Lloyd on 06 October 2023

Mrs Wynbourne was still running the school when I was there, leaving after 11+ in 1968 to go to Marlborough Grammar. Strict but kind. She did most of the teaching but her husband took some classes as well as her daughter who had a degree in French from Edinburgh. There was another teacher, Mrs Bennett. A very small school with no more than 25 pupils at most. Good of its kind though.

Posted by Roy Rashbrook on 13 September 2024

My brother Hans Rashbrook went to Kingsbury Hill in the mid 1970s. He became very good friends with a boy called Clive Nash. Unfortunately Hans died last July and I'm now trying to get in touch with Clive...


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