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| i attended this school in 1952-3 aged 8-9, after returning with my parents from a 3-year posting with the RAF in Egypt (where i learnt nothing at all!). Captain Perks was a lovely chap and i remember him with great fondness. He was a vocational teacher and headmaster who showed absolute commitment and love to all his school children. His generosity of spirit has been an inspiration to me throughout my long life. | |
| I attended this school from 1947- 1950. Capt.& Mrs Perks ran the school and my mother Adelaide Light taught there. One of the other teachers was a Mrs Gerdes who after Capt Perks died became the Head. Our family went to Kenya in 1953 . After our return in late 1956 we visited Bulford village where we had lived and the school had then relocated there. My memories of Avondale School are of Swedish Drill in the playground behind the school which was next door to a farmyard , sitting around a large table for our lessons in the Transition class . This classroom was opposite the kitchen where the cook used to produce delicious sticky buns for us to eat with our milk at break time . A wonderful start to school life! | |
| Thrilled to find this site. I was at the school from 1955-7 only, then at Bulford when it was nice and small and homely. Mrs Gerdes I remember well as being so kind. All the teachers were. Yes, at Bulford I remember the farmyard. We used to go on what was euphemistically called a nature walk but was really a good old country ramble. I loved it. At Countess Farm I remember huge rooms - even the toilet was in a vast room, with a chair in it which fascinated me as it was one of those (Bentwood?) types with a pattern of holes in the seat. We certainly had a piano teacher (miss Elliot?), learnt alphabet by rote as you should, chanted times tables, and did little spelling tests. Above all I remember the kindness. | |
| Avondale was my first school. I was there from 1937 until December 1939. I have happy memories of the school. I remember Captain and Mrs. Perks well and won my first prize there - a book "Black Beauty"! I loved horses and it made a great impression on me. Eighty years later I can still well remember how the rooms looked and the garden where we played and some of the names of the other children in my class. | |
I was there from 1955-1959 when we lived in Boscombe Down. I have many memories of the place. Captain Perks with his cane- I only saw it used once on a desk top. Mrs Captain Perks as we used to call her. Miss Gold Miss Meredith- later Mrs ??? Miss Warwick-Smith Mrs Gerd es Miss Newman We used to play in adjacent farm yard when it was wet except for the time there was an angry bull in the cowshed. I remember Dalginda Singh the son of an Indian Army officer on a course at Larkhill. The teachers were nervous about what to do if his turban came off. Lessons would stop to watch fire engines or the local hunt pass by. I also remember the nature walks and the sad day we saw a cow crying over her dead calf and being told not to talk about it to the other half of the class. |
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