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Hill School Memories |
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An aerial view taken in 1957 - junior Blocks 1 and 2 (centre right) have been completed, but the swimming pool has not yet been built behind girls' Blocks 3 and 4. As ever, the Water tower dominates the scene. The sanatorium is top centre and the class gardens are to the right of the senior tuition block in the centre of the photograph. Behind the electrical control house was a piece of railway line hung on a bracket to act as the school bell. On the long drive out between the tuition blocks, an outdoor screen was erected one Saturday evening in the Easter term of 1957 for a showing of the Dam Busters film. Arthur Brindley took cricket on the pitch in front of the sanatorium and Miss Cartwright did tennis coaching on the courts by the trees. The trees along the Kisumu Road marked the boundary - there was no fence. The headmaster's house is just visible at the extreme top left of the picture. - PHOTO Brett Langevad |
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Girls' Block 4 (left) and Boys' Block 5 (right). The flagpole was erected in 1956 and - to the consternation of some of the Afrikaaner pupils - the British Union flag was flown from it. On Saturday and Sundays pupils were turned out on to the games field or to sit on the green benches as shown here. - PHOTOs Brett Langevad |
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Block 6 as it was observed by Dave Lichtenstein in 2004. - PHOTOs Dave Lichtenstein |
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Boxing matches were held between Hill School and a school in Kitale. One weekend in 1956 we were all sent to watch a match there and many Afrikaaner parents found themselves pressed into taking very reluctant British pupils, mainly from Uganda. I was well fed on homemade cakes and pancakes by a very kind Afrikaaner family who took me with them - much to the chagrin of their son! In 1957 Block 6 was done up and while the Common Room was being painted in typical PWD buff we were unusually allowed out the back of the house before supper. Model aeroplane and kite construction were popular passtimes and Mrs Reid - the kindly matron for Upstairs Block 6 - would return from a shopping expedition in Eldoret with the necessary supplies. - PHOTOs Brett Langevad |
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Block 5 (left) and Block 6 (right) at the end of term - note the parents' cars. Uganda children had to wait until around 2200 when they were ferried in relays to the Railway Station. There was always great excitement and speculation as to who would be lucky enough to get the first class coach. In the run up to end of term "propellers" were carved with sheath knives which many boys wore on their scout belts (although no one was a boy scout, despite Chief Scout Baden Powell's being buried at nearby Kitale). - PHOTOs Brett Langevad |
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End of Term - the beds have been stripped. House slippers had to be worn at all times to protect the heavily polished parquet floors. Every morning pupils lines up at the foot of their beds, hands held up while matron carried out her inspection of fingernails. - PHOTO Brett Langevad |
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Staff houses were built down the drive between the junior tuition block and the playing fields in 1956. - PHOTO Brett Langevad |
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Brothers practise hockey on the playing fields - the sanatorium and junior tuition block are in the background. - PHOTO Brett Langevad |
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Morris Oxford in part of the line-up of parents' cars at the end of term, December 1955. - PHOTO (left) Brett Langevad Fifty years later Dave Lichtenstein and his wife on the steps of the sanatorium. - PHOTO (right) Dave Lichtenstein |
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Junior Tuition Block with school office on the left and the head teacher's study on the right. The board shows an incomplete list of former head teachers including Arthur Brindley and the formidable Jane Barbour. Jane took no nonsense and was a skilled football referee - heaven help you if she didn't think you were trying! She would arrive in a blue Standard Vanguard with her black Scottie dog. - PHOTOs Dave Lichtenstein |
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The senior quadrangle as it was in 2004. - PHOTOs Dave Lichtenstein |
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Gwen Bristow's Great Trek mural still survives - PHOTO Dave Lichtenstein 2004 |
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As does her Mad Hatter's Tea Party painted in 1956. - PHOTO Dave Lichtenstein 2004 |
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Hill School Staff May 1960 commencing with the Back Row
– left to right Joyce Purdy, Brenda Sentance, Mrs Denoon, Mrs L. Wood, Pam Poppleton, Laura Steenkamp, Mrs de Jager, Mrs Prior. Dorothy Gibbs, ? with Jan Dowson and Helen McAdam peeping through
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