Heathercombe Brake School Photographs
There are 679 (or thereabouts) photographs here. Some of them are duplicates and some of them are in random order.
Paul Pope sent me a zip file in 2014 and I have been meaning to sort and upload them ever since. To have digitized these from prints to computer files must have taken many, many hours.
They are nearly all of Heatree boys, with a few from Heathlands, and I would guess that they stretch from the early-60s to the late-70s.
If you click on a photograph, it will enlarge. You can use the forward and back arrows to browse the gallery. If you can add names or details, please use the comments box.
If anyone would like the zip file. Contact me at ianpoulton@gmail.com and I’ll send it to you.
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- Terry Richardson & Peter Shurmur
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- Dennis Kennedy and Leslie Evans
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- Dennis Kennedy and Leslie Evans
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- 1976 Outing
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- Michael Jarvis
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- Gerald Marish and Terry Rawlings
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- Tony Bourne, Dave Moore and Barry Bourne
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- Damon Moore and Barry Davie
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- Tony and Barry Bourne
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- Tony and Barry Bourne
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- Damon Moore and Barry Davie
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- Ralph Goodman and Peter Davey
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- Arthur Bell and Peter Maylin
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- Nigel Weston and Fitzgerald Williamson
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- Michael Jarvis and Chris Yarnall
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- Barry Bourne and Ian Poulton
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- Tony Bourne and Dave Moore
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- Paul Pope and Roger Watts
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- Juan Reid and Leslie Stevens
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- Leslie Stevens
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- Bill and Ena Puddicombe
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- Dave Moore and Barry Davie
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- Roger Watts and Barry Bourne
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- Andrew Purdie and Simon Buckle
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- Ian Poulton and Martin Clack
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- Juan Reid
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- Brian Webber and Richard Martin
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- Brian Webber
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- Ian Poulton and Martin Clack
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- Brian Webber and Richard Martin
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- Paul Pope
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- Paul Pope and Wayne Johnson
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Hi, Many thanks, Would like to know if there still exists 60s intake register, would like to see my name.
Steven Jones
Hi Steve,
I don’t know. The only stuff about the school I can find online is about the legal situation of the Trust. I assume the records must have been sent somewhere. I can’t imagine they would have just been destroyed.
Thanks for your efforts in providing these photos.
I was at that hell hole in around 1975.
I’m hoping there may be some sort of compensation scheme set up in the future to claim against this awful institution
Danny Kehoe
Were you at Heatree, Danny, or at one of the homes? As far as I remember, there was Heatherway, Clapperway, and what was called “old Heathercombe” but was the original Heathercombe Brake from which the Trust took its name.
I WAS THERE FOR HEALTH REASONS LONG BEFORE THE SCHOOL, IN 1956/8 OR THERE ABOUT’S,AND WAS TAKEN TO SEE BECKY FALLS, I HATED IT THERE.
I’m not sure if this is the way to go, but if you want to email me directly, feel free.
I was at Heatree house. I remember a few names.
Were you at what they called old Heathercombe, Alan? The wooden buildings up a steep hill.
HI IAN POULTON,IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ,ALL I CAN REMEMBER WAS THAT THERE WAS A POND IN THE GARDEN, AND THERE WAS A PORCH WHERE WE HAD TO TAKE OUR SHOES OFF,IT WAS AROUND 1956/8 ,CAN’T REMEMBER MUCH AS I DID NOT LIKE IT THERE.
I don’t think I would have liked it there. It seemed a very bleak and lonely place.
Memories come flooding back.. Probably best to leave them where they are. bloody horrid place.
When were you there?
Steven Jones, if you are on FB search for heathercombe brake school and request admittance, there are a number of attendees from the 50’s & 60’s on there that I am sure will remember you
I remember going to holcombe down when Barbara and bill Perkins ran it
I remember aunty bett who ran heatree for boys
I was at old Heathercombe 1960s. Always cold & hungry. Not a nice place. No TV only religion. Children came & went every 2 weeks. With the exception of a few like myself who were too sick or homeless.