Memories of schooldays at Parkhurst, West Watford (From Watford Observer)

Memories of schooldays at Parkhurst, West Watford

10:06am Friday 2nd July 2010 in

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Mr G Wright, of Hagden Lane, Watford, has written to Nostalgia on the subject of a school in the town. He wrote: “The ‘School kept by three sisters’ could possibly have been Parkhurst (surely an unfortunate choice of name).

“This was a ‘Dame’ school ‘for girls and preparatory for boys’ run by the Wilshin sisters in West Watford, which I attended from 1930 to 1933.

“Numbers were small, probably ten to 12 pupils at most, and at first this school was located on an upper floor of a large house in Mildred Avenue, near the top of Hagden Lane hill.

“But then it transferred to a two-classroom single storey schoolhouse, which had been custom-built in the spacious back garden of a house in nearby Rickmansworth Road (but there was still no playground).

“Only two sisters taught; the third, Evie, was visually handicapped, and ‘looked after the house’, so there could only ever be two classes.

“Teaching was of a slightly religious flavour (Church of England) and at Rickmansworth Road, the sisters kept St Bernard dogs as pets.”