I used to wonder what those rooms had been used for during the war. Long after leaving the school, I discovered that the hostel was specifically built to accommodate Bevin Boys - among them David Day, who in 1993 published an account of his time there, The Bevin Boy. My classrooms had been a 'welfare block' for David Day: The walls were painted in bright colours and the layout resembled …
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