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.
- Nigel Weston and Fitzgerald Williamson
- Michael Jarvis and Chris Yarnall
- Barry Bourne and Ian Poulton
- Tony Bourne and Dave Moore
- Juan Reid and Leslie Stevens
- Bill and Ena Puddicombe
- Dave Moore and Barry Davie
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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.