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Carden School

Photographs from the 1960s

Playing Fields, Carden School, Hollingbury c.1960.

Photo sent by Martin Nimmo 25-01-03

Carden School, Hollingbury c.1968.

Photo by Martin Nimmo

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

I was hoping there would be a picture of the playing fields of Patcham County Secondary School.

By Terence Mills (22/06/2003)

I started school at Carden Primary in 1955 and moved on to Dorothy Stringer.

By Jennifer Baverstock (11/02/2004)

I attended this school from 1952 onward. I remember Mr Budleigh as the headmaster. Mrs Shipham was an elderly teacher. I've now lived in Canada since 1974.

By John Harris (29/04/2004)

My mum used to pick me up from Patcham School on Ladie's Mile Road and take me to Carden School for speech therapy every Monday afternoon.

By John Hutchings (07/07/2004)

The picture shown is of Carden School, but two of the previous comments are about Patcham. I went to both. Due to the sheer number of kids being rehoused in Hollingbury, many of us had the old Patcham methodist church as our school whilst Carden was being built by Italian prisoners of war, who I believe came from Lewes Prison. I was also in their first intake when the doors opened in 1947.

By Roy Grant (01/11/2004)

I attended this school from about 1959. I remember that Mr Emmons was the head. I liked Mr Kitchen he was a very encouraging teacher but Mrs James was a right dragon. One afternoon I played truant with two other girls and when Mr. Emmons told us off he said that if we'd been boys he would have given us the slipper.

By Gilly Grimshaw (27/12/2004)

Yes, I remember all of those! How about Mrs Marsh... didn't like her!

By Lucy Marshall (08/04/2005)

I attended Carden School from 1949 - 1957. We were always told that the school had been designed as a hospital, hence the doors that opened onto a patio outside each classroom. Can anyone confirm this? I believe it was the first school completed after the war and certainly had the newest equipment which encouraged many visitors to the school. The Headmistress in the infants' school was Miss d'Etlinger and the Headmaster of the junior school was Mr. Ede, a kindly, elderly man (in my young eyes), who I believe worked at Patcham school before being the first headmaster of Carden. He retired at easter 1957 and Mr. Emmans, headmaster of the Downs school, took over as headmaster. I have very happy memories of Carden school, the bright airy classrooms and the wonderful playing fields where you could find adder skins for the nature table. Nature walks were to Stanmer woods or the area where the factories now stand, where we searched for rare flowers. I especially enjoyed being in Mr. Cheesman's class for two years before leaving to go to secondary school. He was a very enthusiastic teacher and especially keen on poetry and English. I still have copies of poems I wrote whilst in his class. I'm sure coping with a class of 48 pupils must have been difficult but he inspired us all to work hard. Mr. Monger was the deputy head and we were all rather scared of him. He played classical music in assembley and did his best to educate us in the arts. Who remembers the picture by Bruegel of 'The Wedding Feast' which hung in the same position throughout the years I attended the school? Mr. Kitchen and Miss Aldous took us for swimming at St. Luke's baths one evening a week, two bus rides and a long walk up and down Islingword Road. I returned to the school when it celebrated its 50th anniversay and was surprised to see the original small wash basins in the corridor alcoves and the original book cupboards in each room.

By Jacqueline Pollard (09/04/2005)

Mrs Marsh gets my vote as the 'teacher from hell' too!

By Graham Hurford (04/11/2005)

This is my old school. I am now writing at Patcham about it.

By Ciara (29/06/2006)

I went to Carden Infants and Junior schools. I have fond memories of playing soccer on the five-a-side pitch on the top playing field. I played football for the E&A team. I'm 29 now so that was in the late 1980s.

By Robin (31/07/2006)

I attended Carden School from 1976-1983. The school has stayed with me all these years and has formed part of the description in my book 'Mathamagical'. I still meet up with people I met there. Even after all these years we talk about the school with such enthusiasm. Our headmaster was Mr Nunn, he was another who would play classical music to us in assembly. Mr Cartlidge was an isperation to me and I would love to meet him again. I would have loved to have attended the 50th anniversary but I live in Blackpool now and didn't get to here about it in time. The book being writen by Ciara would be wonderful to read, or even be involved with. We had a ghost story, Wendy Pain who used to haunt the girls' toilets. Oh wonderful days.

By Colin Davies (07/08/2006)

Interesting to read Jacqueline Pollard's memories of the school. It brought back quite a few memories to me. One of the things being that the deputy head's name was spelt Mongor and he was always picking up anyone who didn't emphasise the last part as 'or' (not 'er'). I think that I must be a year or two older than you as I left the year the the King died in 1952. I remember the solemn way we were told of his death by Mr Ede. I last saw Mr Mongor in the 80s at a Dinner Dance at which my band was playing, I believe that he was well into his nineties. Other teachers in addition to the ones you mention were Miss Shoesmith and Mr Wright (who was handy with the Strap). I also seem to remember a Miss Steel who, before teaching at Carden, was at my infant school, St. Marks.

By Dave Cresdee (18/08/2006)

I lived in Crabtree Avenue and attended this school when it first opened. I remember Mr Ede as headmaster and a lovely Canadian teacher named Miss Radcliffe. Soon after, my parents and I migrated to Melbourne, Australia; I have lived here since.

By Robert Plenty (06/10/2006)

Whatever happened to Mr Emmons and Mr Kitchen? l always remember the smell of his office - coffee and sure tobacco! I also remember the swimming pool outside Mr Kitchen's class made out of blue plastic. I attendend the infants and junior school. Mrs Cage, the reading teacher, she was scary.

By Chris (21/11/2006)

I went to Carden Infants and Carden Juniors until 1960 and then on to Dorothy Stringer Secondary Modern. My favourite teacher was Mr. Goodchild who inspired me to read by reading Famous Five books to us at every spare moment or on wet sports days.
I met my first girlfriend Lynne Harvey in the final Carden year and subsequently Dorothy Stringer. We lost contact after school days finished and never saw or heard from each other again until 2001 through Friends Reunited. We are now living together in Somerset and are blissfully happy sharing our memories of Brighton. My Brother Michael and sisters Anne and Marcia also went to Carden. Mike and Anne went onto Patcham whilst I and Marcia went to Stringer. My eldest Daughter Marianne also attended Carden and Stringer. We all were raised at 67 Crabtree Avenue.

By Brian Baldock (18/02/2007)

I also remember Mrs Marsh as I was in her class 1 3. Does anyone remember a Miss M.C.Kimon - not quite sure if this is how the name is spelt. My friends were Lesley Hardy, Sandra Farr and Pat Marshell Lesley. I went to DSS in 1963. I was always being hit with a glass ruler for talking in class. I lived in Fernhurst Crescent.

By Carol Wright (nee Wickham) (02/03/2007)

Yes, I remember Mr Ede for his smile, Mr Mongor for trying to get everyone to sing in Welsh, Mr Wright for saying he was never "wrong," Mr Cheesman for sport and Miss Shoesmith for her Marilyn Monroe wiggle as she led our class down the corridor and Miss Still (or was it Steel?) for marching into the boys loos and dragging you out by your ear even if you were mid-you know what. I also remember digging holes in the embankment to make garages for the Dinkey cars that you ran along the low wall and collecting cigarette cards, swapping them to make sets and winning them from others in a game that was called "Tabs." Other memories include playing fivestones and dashing across the yellow line down the middle of the playground (which divided the boys from the girls) and upsetting the girls' collections of beads that they were swapping from old tobacco tins.

By Roy Grant (01/11/2007)

I attended Carden School from 1976-1983, and last year (2006) I launched a website dedicated to the class year 1982/83, and since then have helped to arrange several school reunions. The website is updated regularly with news and photographs. See http://www.carden1983.info for more information.

By Mark Rogers (15/11/2007)

Boy, does this page ever bring back memories! I lived at 41 Crabtree Avenue and went to Carden School from roughly 1954 to 1958. I remember Mr Cheeseman - he gave me my love of maths and his wife taught me at my previous school (so long ago but I think it was Downs Infant School?). Mr Cheeseman was indeed an inspirational teacher. I must have been one of those girls with a collection of beads in an old tobacco tin - they were my pride and joy.

By Maureen (Mo) Fone (nee Parker) (18/11/2007)

I have lots of lovely memories from Carden. I loved this school and was very sad when we all left in 1983. I lived at 117 Denton Drive. I have very fond memories of Mr Trott, i used to think he was great and looked forward to his lessons. Thanks to Mark Rogers though have met up with lots of old faces at the reunions and hope to go to lots more.

By Nicky Durrant (06/02/2008)

I went to Carden from 1976 to 1983 and have very fond memories of the school. Mr Nunn was the Headmaster and I always remember sitting in the Hall on that hard floor in assembly listening to classical music chosen by him for that week. I went back there for a tour very recently with some old school friends and can't believe that they still have the same hand basins in the corridors and paintings on the walls. Mr Cartlidge was my favourite teacher, he had great enthusiasm and really encouraged all of us to do well. I especially used to enjoy the times he used to get his guitar out in class and sing songs such as "If I had a Hammer"! Do they make teachers like that anymore? Probably not!

By Linda Williams (27/04/2008)

I left Carden in 1960 but can't remember when I started in the infants. It must have been around 1955. I recall an elderly teacher who when she blew the whistle in the playground her false teeth dropped. Vague memories of Janet and John but I can always picture those false teeth.
I have found memories of Miss James who went to live in the US (Texas, I believe) Miss Still or was it Steel, and of course Mr Mongor, and Mr Cheeseman, my last form teacher. I have a photo of Mr Cheeseman, myself and the friends including Graham Hurford, on the day we left Carden.
Brighton in the 50s and 60s was a great place to grow up, and particularly the freedom to roam over Hollingbury golf course, the giants foot and Stanmer Park. I went on to Dorothy Stringer and then Brighton Technical College before heading north for University and then settling in the West Midlands. I lived at 17 Carden Hill.

By Keith Elder (16/07/2008)

The Carden1983 website has recently changed the domain to dot com and is still regularly updated. Visit it at www.carden1983.com.

By Mark Rogers (06/11/2008)