Tatler. I was greatly influenced by a school trip to Stratford to see Taming of the Shrew, um- the event rather than the play itself. But I certainly remember Mr Copas as a very inspiring English teacher. but have always felt for those of my era who did accept from either of them and what they went through. More likely that a new generation looked upon their seven-year-old children, and recoiled in horror at the prospect of subjecting them to such an institution. David Phillips taught me cricket ,rugby and soccer very well . WebNEVILL HOLT, Medbourne - 1001433 | Historic England Home Listing Search the List List Entry NEVILL HOLT Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Funeral notice here: http://announce.jpress.co.uk/harboroughmailcouk/obituary/david-phillips/42098148To anyone affected by the events alluded to above: I was a pupil at Nevill Holt in the 1980s and am compiling the recollections of former pupils of all ages, to better understand my own experience there, and possibly with a view to writing something in the future. Proper teachers such as Deas were a credit to their profession.I loathed the place and after passing my common Entrance exams to Uppingham was expelled after three further miserable years. I'm sorry for the people who were abused. He had me doing calculus but when I got to Uppingham it was all about modern maths which I really didn't grab and my academic career went into freefall!I have fond memories of Nevill Holt and even find myself humming the School Song on occasions! possibly the only male teacher who I remember genuinely wanted to do right by the pupils. Only now I learn that I was cheated out of a proper education by Frederick Serille-Phillips. All-round, he was probably the best teacher I ever had.I don't think I approve any more of that kind of boarding education for children at such a young age. S reminiscesI am now very old, but I do have memories of NH between 1962-1966I remember EEC, who had a room at the end of a corridor. Mr Bakewell's woodwork sessions were also a fond memory. It makes me sad for this to be his legacy, when I think what a great teacher he was and how committed he was to the school. Did anyone else actually see the ghost walking through the wall in Goths dormitory, towards the chapel, or was that always just the terrifying Miss. I remember all the staff - David Phillips and his rags to riches wife Nina. Even after reading some of the comments posted quite a while after the one I made, I still think NH and the education it provided was very good. I, it seems, had a very narrow escape, being invited to his house (while his wife was out - whatever became of her?) We reported it to DCSP and Mr Wright disappeared from school. ), and good drama (remember the Hamlet in the Great Hall?). What the lack of protest over airport scanners tel MP repays 755 expense claim for astrology software, House Points: Nick Clegg, Gina Ford and airbrushing, Test drilling resumes in Nottinghamshire oilfield. Anyone remember him? Live long.

I was at Nevill Holt from 1956 to 1961 (or thereabouts). I did not manage to leave the choir, but was at least never left alone with him. I recall that name, Oakey! Im not suprised by the scandal really about the perverts there, I just feel sorry for the children that suffered unbeknown to anyone. WebGallery of Nevill Holt Opera Theatre / Witherford Watson Mann Architects - 7. Finally though does anyone remember seeing Nancy Cunard's signature in the attics? My Wyld taught English and played classical music after lights out to entertain and educate us. Never really got on with Copas so wouldn't comment. I can confirm that DCSP died. As for Clements and Copas, Clements was a violent and spiteful man, full stop.

My parents pulled us from the school when they were told we would have to board, the following year. Worst was, from what I now understand were a couple of perverted individuals, to the naked arse, and once when completely sans vtements. I was there up to 1960 and never got my confiscated knives back.I remember E.E.C. I remember Copas as being a man of great christian kindness. I was there 74-77 remember Clements was bad tempered and shifty in extreme i got on with Copas remember going on school skiing trip with him and Deaso Where does Bonkers Hall come into it? WebIn 2013, Nicholas founded Nevill Holt Opera and established an award-winning education and associate artists programme. I am shocked at the abuse that went on. What about mr lanyon hypnotising us asleep on his large stained bladder sack whilst our parents thought they were paying for extra music not perverted gratification.What about dragescu what happened to that pervert why is he not castrated or imprisonedWhat happened to the bent modelling teacher that touched you up what was his name and why has he not been to prison alsoI don't buy the excuse clements has found religion as though that will make it ok well it hasn't and never will. Robin David Peverett, paedophile teacher at Eastbourne College Preparatory School, Pestalozzi Village, Nevill Holt Nevill Holt Hall is a Grade I listed building, dating back to before 1300. I was at Neville Holt from 1989-1994 and I loved the place,!.. was an outstanding teacher of Maths and much else besides and took us to very high levels. He has left me with a passion for history. )DCSP - great teacher, I excelled at Latin and he was a brilliant rugby and cricket coach. I remember little about FSP other than his ever-handy cane and his propensity to trot off to the White Hart in Uppingham for a snorter before dinner. Time often does a good job in removing unpleasant memories but on balance I think I came out with a positive view of the school.I do know several parents whose children went there in the latter days and they were positive about the place, especially Mr Copas. met the man behind the Nevill Holt Opera Festival. I remember his once humiliating Mr Bellinger in front of the whole school for leaving a bit of baked potato on his plate.On the other hand, I have fond memories of DCSP, who was a good, kind and talented man, but my real hero, apart from his terrible jokes, was Mr Cooke. !, he was so helpful in life, I still use his skills to this day that he tougt me. AP. I remember 2pm as the dreaded hour each dayI have to say I don't recall anything untoward in the behaviour of the teachers during my sentence.stay, but I do remember Mr Moorhouse (he of the jam making company?) I liked him as a person , but found him a bit scary . I remember boys getting seven bells knocked out of them in geography lessons, thrown down staircases etc on one occasion a boy in the year above me got a standing ovation after Clements had left the room having knocked him senseless but not made him cry !! Until a recent visit, I didn't realise there was a walled vegetable garden behind the church and believe it or not the same telephone box is still there in the lane to the right of the estateMr P/F? Interestingly he has airbrushed his NH employment from his cv - he has his own Wikipedia entry, lucky man. It was brilliant when a lad from Lancashire (no names but he went to Giggleswick after) was caught looking up when she turned round!Mr Burg - not sure if that is the spelling he took games and possibly French. WebNEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL, Nevill Holt - 1188367 | Historic England Home Listing Search the List List Entry NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL Griz was always kind to me but I worry in hindsight when I remember him taking a box or Roses chocolates I had been sent for my birthday from me but then allowing me to go to his room to take one whenever I wanted one.I always managed to go when he was out, so the most dangerous thing that happened was a good slobbering from his lovely (Irish? We all just stopped and stared as the dogs were yelping in pain. I remember distinctly him getting them to do this to a couple of younger pupils in the boot hut. I count my blessings to have emerged unscathed. I just read the above (RB) comment with much interest, not least because I was a pupil there during some of the years described. You obviously didn't go there. Amazing. Received the cane on many occasions along with the slipper, gym shoe, hockey stick and othersdid not do me any harm. To be fair, you always knew where you stood with him and remember him throwing, with force, a chalk board cleaner and hitting a boy on the head.Mrs Pearce-Smith was a really nice lady, seemed to care about the pupils but bizarrely seemed to be close to Copas which never made sense to me. I was hugely saddened to learn about his death and could not credit the things which were said of him. I recall our letters home were censored, and Ernest Cooke was an excellent teacher who was relentlessly bullied by the monstrous Wraight. He threw a heavy brass school-bell at one of my friends that smashed a glass-fronted bookcase in the library and I was once despatched on an errand by Wraight to see a bemused and red-faced Ernie Cooke (in his little room filled with Dubonnet bottles) with the message 'Go and tell Mr Cooke that he's a little clockwork bastard and I'm going to knock his head off'. might have been subject to a bit more scrutiny. Like Graham Walker I spent a lot of time with Copas and I liked him a lot.On a walking holiday when sharing a dorm with him in bunk beds, in the middle of the night he asked me to get into his bed. Just taught me not to get caught! And still a freak, I was was there between 1986 and 1990. I remember a friend at the school describing Copas as queer as a coot and I was surprised but thought there must have been some reason for the comment. WebSTABLE BLOCK AT NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL. I spoke to Ron deas about a year before the school closed. But being the person I am, I look back at that formative time with a lot of nostalgia.I say all this, not having been abused. His departure preceded that of the inspection team. I mostly agree with you and remember attending your fathers funeral but spare a thought for those many fellow boys less fortunate than us who have had their lives ruined. But I had a close shave myself when doing inspection of the upper sixth dorm, who fuelled by pubescent lust had clearly been planning an assault for some time. How very sad for it to end in such a way. There were over 100, and more were added each term. There was one girl, K who was lovely but obviously didn't gave the confidence yo stand up to the other girls and so took part in the bullying just to avoid becoming a victim themselves. If so, was it called Nevill Holt Halt? Browse all resources Move Planner Find a mortgage Property valuation Conveyancing Post a Job Find the best broadband See tradesmen blacklist.

Just about every architectural style and century, from the 14th onwards, was represented. Best wishes to you, AP, Hi Ap,Yes I could not believe it when I saw your post and amazed that you have remembered my name and all that detail after 52 years, especially as you were only there for one term. He also told me not to tell a soul not until I was on my death bed. Because he was an important critic of Marxist thought, he has generally been lumped in with What Popper did and didn't say about the paradox of intolerance, Big increase in number of Lib Dem local election candidates, The Other Side of Soho Carnaby Street, Broadwick Street, Golden Sq. This became less frequent as the years went by and the will of the younger, enlightened, Latin teaching with a terrible lisp, Mr. Philips was increasingly felt in the corridors.Good staff at the school were, a female art teacher, and the young nurse, the sister of a Man. Nevill Holt feels like a place that is, after 700 years of ups and downs, finally entering its prime. Temper I have never since seen matched but had some self-control. I think she was the sister of a Man United footballer - at least that was the rumour. I hated it, though took two years to pluck up the courage to tell my parents about the harsh treatment of pupils, the way girls were stripped of their female gender and referred to as boys, the ethos of bullying and beating any perceived weakness out to build a strong character. Save on property services Mortgages, broadband, and more. He'd bend your fingers back do far to inspect nails that some boys would cry. They knew that Copas was a paedophile but did nothing. Like the contributor mentioned above (we must have known one another), I was invited - and went - to Clements' house, while his wife was out, to learn how to body-build. A year making 'tanks' out of cotton-reals, elastic bands and pencils is fondly remembered. For all of your information, Edmund Clemants is now living in a flat in EASTBOURNE town centre! Ernie was a decent teacher, a shy little man with a funny walk who, although I was crap at his Maths at least gave me a lifelong interest in cricket. I am staggered to learn that Phillips was such a fraudster. Leicestershire. I am truly shocked by what some of you went through at this school. More could, I think, have been made of this, and it was only later that I began to appreciate it.Does anyone still have their copies of Condescend? dinner, Mr. Hollingsworth who (quite reasonably) threw me out of his carpentry lesson for throwing sawdust around, several very patient matrons including Miss Webb, and one other amazing Maths teacher whose name I apologetically cannot recall, but who has my eternal gratitude for introducing me to the idea of Dungeons & Dragons (which I should not have pursued in his Maths lessons).I wonder if the current owner would allow guests at his opera events to wander the halls? Mr Westlake, whose bizarre rants about the "rotten core of this school" we always supposed were directed at us. There was a memorial service for him at Medbourne church. Unquestionably monstrous. A rather appropriate end.

Better than being bathed by the formidably ugly kitchen server Miss Crombie! I was sent earlier than most (aged 5 ) to Nevill Holt as my junior school went bankrupt. Welcome to Nevill Holt!! Her and Clements used to love bed inspection. Which is why he hung himself.Anyway, everything written about Clements above is right. Thankfully all the paedo stuff that happened, passed me by without a thought. When you get separated from your mother aged 8 and someone like Miss MacRonald becomes your principle female contact, it's bound to leave its marks. Also today, Nevill Holt announced changes to its summer festival lineup. Hopefully the rest of us can continue to use our experiences there (good and bad) to shape the way we live our lives, and to ensure we protect our own children in a way our parents perhaps didn't us. In the first years we used to go on walks - in a crocodile down the country roads, all in uniform. I remember one of the older teachers frequently putting me over his knees and gently smacking my bum, apparently as punishment for whatever it was I was meant to have done. The incomparable Mr Cooke - he of the limp? He never approved of Clements strict way and I even remembered walking into a classroom with Ron and Clements going at it about a punishment which Clements had handed out to a pupil. (We lived in Lyddington at the time).Some fond memories: the Civil War hiding spots; the tuck shop; some great friends; building swords and shields in carpentry to play at being knights; Guy Fawkes night; playing conkers (overrated though it was). It was such a different world back then. To the north-east of the Hall lies the village of Nevill Holt which consists of various cottages (some listed grade II), and Nevill Holt Farm (listed grade II). The garden lies to the north-west side of the Hall and is bounded to the north and west principally by a brick wall with a stone base (listed grade II). threatening to tell the headmaster that I had a 4" fruit knife (it didn't cut fruit never mind cause harm to a human being)I enjoyed his music sessions though when he played gramophone records. He had his favourites, be charming, but also mean and and spiteful. Anonymous from December 2011. Wraight used to tell all the boys to watch out when he was in "dramatics" as he called it, (ie completely out of it) and we were all totally terrified. Miss MacRonald insisting on being called 'Sir'! Leicester New Walk Museum and Art Gallery: A Journ Comedian's son is the deputy leader of Rochdale Co Libertarian Party: Nationalise home schooling, Nevill Holt prep school - stranger than Bonkers Hall, Nick Clegg's "Four Steps to a Fairer Britain", Britblog Roundup 255: This week with added video, House Points: Elf and safety meets The Thick of It. I remember a few one year wonders who joined the staff with great promise but failed to reappear the following year. Unfortunately I missed out on DCSP at the helm, with hindsight his father was not really a suitable headmaster of a boys schoolhe also should have retired much earlier. (24th Jan 2012) I've returned to the page because of the recent publicity about abuse at prep schools and the mentions of Mr Wright. The model club, of which Mr Wraight (Ratty) was supervising master used to fly this and other craft around the Warren. In fact, he had only just completed his military training at Uxbridge. I remember she lived with her mother in a chocolate box cottage behind the church. !Copas (griz) outstanding teacher who I can not believe could have been involved.Clements on the other hand missed his time , should have been a member of the SS in Germany during WW2. I was one of those boys, not sexually abused but routinely physically abused, primarily by Mr Clements, for whom I have no sympathy whatever, but also by others. (RB) I was an inmate, from 1964 until I fought my last battle at the school after morning prayers at the end of year, 1969. United footballer. I was at Nevill Holt 63-69 and its been fantastic reading some of the names from the past. Outside of his sex abuse 'extra tuition' classes he had a bad temper. If I was ever to cross paths with him, I would say the same to his face. Not a chance it would pass an OFSTEAD inspection these days! Aside, there were some good times for a childhood and I learnt to fish and shoot at the school but in reality I wouldn't have subjected my kids to NH if it were still open.Some teachers who stand out 25 years on:Deaso who is largely credited by alumni was a self-proclaimed "Superman" was simply a bully who wielded a golf club with swift swipes and stings for innocuous 11/12 year old behaviour. Me again! You rescued me when I was accused of stealing a 'nozzle' from a drinking fountain (why would I ??). Passing sentence, Judge Peter De Mille told Clements, a married man, of Hove, Sussex, that he had committed a "gross breach of trust" and selected at least two of his victims because they were particularly vulnerable.

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