Loughton County High School for Girls
Copyright © 2013 by Susan Capes · All Rights reserved · E-Mail: sue@loughtonchs.co.uk
Firstly, thank you so much to all you lovely ladies who made this gatecrasher feel so welcome at your reunion. I really had a great time and didn't want to leave! Margaret - it was great to meet you and thanks for the superb organisation :)
I have taken nearly 90 photos, many of which won't make it onto the website because they were just of chairs stacked on tables and unrecognizable bits of the building but I'll put as many as I can into appropriate galleries for you to reminisce over. If I put any photos of you online that you would really rather not have there, let me know by email, making it clear exactly which is the offending pic, and I'll remove it.
I have now separated out the photos into appropriate pages as many of them will have general interest so click buildings to see the ones taken on our tour of the school, honours boards for those of all the other years, personal memories for those photos you let me copy and others for ones I took from the magazines
I have taken nearly 90 photos, many of which won't make it onto the website because they were just of chairs stacked on tables and unrecognizable bits of the building but I'll put as many as I can into appropriate galleries for you to reminisce over. If I put any photos of you online that you would really rather not have there, let me know by email, making it clear exactly which is the offending pic, and I'll remove it.
I have now separated out the photos into appropriate pages as many of them will have general interest so click buildings to see the ones taken on our tour of the school, honours boards for those of all the other years, personal memories for those photos you let me copy and others for ones I took from the magazines
The 1963 50 year reunion
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| group 1 hi res | group with scarf | Valerie with scarf |
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| group 2 hi res | Form 1 2013 named | summer dress as apron |
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| school scarf | 6th form scarf |
The 1970 school leavers suffer from the unfortunate distinction that they have lost their honour!
On our tour around the school we all stopped to look at the lovely old honours boards in the entrance hall. Various changes have been made by the present incumbents of the premises, not least that a curved office has been built in one corner. Inside the office some honours boards are still visible but the board for the 1970 school leavers was removed and apparently has been lost. In its place is an unsightly sludge-brown panel and an unusable door.
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Numbered and named photo now in Groups gallery
" I have looked into the matter of the missing panel in our entrance hall and am sorry to say that we have bad news for you.
The work done to the area was carried out many years ago and we only have a few members of staff who still work at the school and who were present during the time of the work. I have just now spoken to the last of these, one of our site team who was working here in the late 1990s, who said that the work was carried out by contractors and that they disposed of the panel before anyone at the school was aware of what had happened and it was too late to save it.
Other panels which have since been moved are safe in our stores.
I am sorry that I do not have better news for you but unfortunately it is now about 15 years since this happened and we do not keep a record of who carried out the work such a long time ago in order to lodge a complaint on your behalf.
Kind regards "
The work done to the area was carried out many years ago and we only have a few members of staff who still work at the school and who were present during the time of the work. I have just now spoken to the last of these, one of our site team who was working here in the late 1990s, who said that the work was carried out by contractors and that they disposed of the panel before anyone at the school was aware of what had happened and it was too late to save it.
Other panels which have since been moved are safe in our stores.
I am sorry that I do not have better news for you but unfortunately it is now about 15 years since this happened and we do not keep a record of who carried out the work such a long time ago in order to lodge a complaint on your behalf.
Kind regards "
As one of the affronted pupils, Christine Edwards bravely took up the gauntlet and contacted the school, but it would appear there is nothing that can be done. The text of the school's reply is shown below:
HOT NEWS!!!!
The panel has been discovered - see the new honours board page
The panel has been discovered - see the new honours board page
NOT ANY MORE!
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Your Reunions
1968 - 1975 year group
(Jane runs The English Cream Tea Company. See this photo too)
Photos will enlarge when clicked
1963 - 1970 year group
1966 - 1973 year group
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On 22nd October 2016 the LCHS Class of 1973 was reunited for a very happy evening at Theydon Bois Golf Club. Forty seven of us were there (together with a few partners) and we had some details about a further forty five classmates. It wasn't our first Reunion as we'd previously met up in 1984 and in 1997. This time we found ourselves edging into the 'Third Age' with a wide range of achievements and experiences behind us - and, rather encouragingly, many more still in the pipeline. Naturally discussions turned to our memories of our time at LHS which not only included the retirement of both Miss Heald and Miss James, but also bun tickets, posture stripes and compulsory Latin. We remembered (for the most part fondly) our remarkable teachers, some of whom fixed the paths for the rest of our lives. Many friendships have now been renewed and we'll definitely do it again - although we probably won't allow another nineteen years to elapse until next time!
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| The 100 Year Reunion from the local paper |
A reunion is planned for the Class of ’61 (50 years since the last of us left!)
on Wednesday 15th August 2018
There'll be a tour of the old school ( what’s left of it) followed by lunch at The Owl at High Beech.
Contact: Angela Story (as was) initially via sue@loughtonchs.co.uk
Sue will forward your email to Angela who will then contact you herself
on Wednesday 15th August 2018
There'll be a tour of the old school ( what’s left of it) followed by lunch at The Owl at High Beech.
Contact: Angela Story (as was) initially via sue@loughtonchs.co.uk
Sue will forward your email to Angela who will then contact you herself
Were you in the year group 1961 - 1968?
1961 - 1968 year group
A reunion was held on 15th August 2018, to celebrate 50 years since this group left LHS.
They have produced an excellent video of the day which is available on Youtube at this link
and is embedded below for viewing here:
They have produced an excellent video of the day which is available on Youtube at this link
and is embedded below for viewing here:
A reunion for year group 1970 to 1977 is being planned. Click here for more details