Although this picture is 1936, I went to Fairlight School in the late 1960's/1970's. I would think from the picture that this would have been the lower part of the school as I remember the style of the windows when in the Infants School which was the lower part of the school.

We lived in Franklin Street Brighton and my brothers and sisters Jean, June, Brian, Keith and myself went to Fairlight Primary School. My sisters even stayed at Fairlight for Senior School. This is a wonderful school. teachers like Miss Dunstan, Miss Reid, Mr Morrison, and Mr & Mrs Fluck the caretakers. The dinners were just fanstatic; all cooked on the premises fresh vegetables. All the dinner ladies lived nearby. it was just like home and in the infants we used to have to go to bed after lunch we had camp beds and blankets in class but before that we had to have cod liver oil. We all knew one another from the area very good days

Just found this page. I too went to Fairlight School as did my brother Roy. He went to juniors then on to Fawcett. I went to juniors and on to seniors. The girls senior school joined Elm Grove about 1961. I would be interested to know the exact year as my memory is foggy. I remember all the names you mention. I wonder if any of your family remember us? If you would be interested in swapping info my email is jennifer.tonks@yahoo.co.uk

I go to Fairlight and I'm in yr 6, that's Miss Lynn's class room by the top hall.

Something else I remember, is that the caretaker's name came in for a bit of ribbing. In those days you would not have dared to do otherwise. Also of course our lovely late Diana Dors had the same birth name! I have been reminded of Pop Morrison and his chocolate bar (Caramac). I can remember him very clearly after all these years as he seemed to have a good aim over his shoulder with the board brush for anyone who dared talk when his back was turned. I now believe, after talking to other old Fairlighters, that he must have had a mirror next to the glue pot! He took us swimming at St Luke's School. Is the swimming pool still in use?

I was at Fairlight School, infants, juniors and seniors leaving in 1958. Miss Smith was the headmistress of the seniors when I left. I also remember Mr Morrison, and the blackboard rubber he used to throw at the pupils. I also remember a teacher in the seniors called Miss Beard and also Miss Harrison who I really liked.

Yes - Miss Smith. Ruled with a rod of iron, but had a heart of gold. In the Juniors when I was there the headmistress was a Miss Dunstan. I also remember a Miss Adams (Pam) I remember she collected bun pennies and was also (I believe) a concert pianist. A Miss Tibbles, Miss Seaman. At some stage I recall, we had to walk along to a Mission Hall for our school dinners. This was just near the stonemasons. It is still there, but used for something else.

I believe that I attended Fairlight Primary school. c.1939-40, when living at the Salvation Army Home, 12 Wellington Road, Brighton. Does anybody have any information that may be of interest to me. Please email me on lilian.newman@gmail.com.Thanks in advance. Lyn

Crikey; Pop Morrison! I definitely remember him and, I think, Miss Smith and Miss Dunstan from when I went there in the mid to late 60s. Pop taught us boys Technical Drawing and also did some PE lessons, I remember hating having to climb the ropes in the hall and the feel of the coconut matting! I can still remember Pop telling us about Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - don't ask me why, but it has always stuck in my mind! When I was in the juniors there was one evening a week when a goup of us used to stay behind in the playground (the one with the sloping path and outside toilets) and play football for an hour. Happy days!

Yes "Pop Morrison" deadly aim with a chalk! I can see him now,on the stairs with his bar of Caramac. I recall him teaching us to swim (in the classroom) over two chairs. We would be taken by hi, to St Lukes swimming baths. Other teachers I recall in the juniors were: Miss Tibbles, Miss Adams, Miss Seaman and Miss Dunston the headmistress. Miss Smith was the Fairlight Girls head. Elm Groves head was Miss Butler. Some of the juniors at Fairlight were , I recall ,Bruce Brittain, David Sayers, Michael St Jean, Nola Rolf. I was at Fairlight Juniors until around 1959, moving upstairs to the girls school. Very soon after Fairlight girls joined Elm Grove. Does anyone have any photos of these schools?

I should have mentioned I was Jennifer Smith then. Please,if anyone has any class photos or knows where any are, can we see them?

So many of the teachers names are familiar, but also there was Mrs Ivory, Miss Brunt, Mrs Kirkham the playground lady and Mr Corbin, who must have learned to throw a wooden and felt black board rubber with pinpoint accuracy at the same training college as Pop Morrison! Having once been hit just above the eye with it, I can vouch for the way it focused your attention on any incoming, provoked by not paying enough attention! And as for us pupils, I remember, Clive Polling, Graham Harriot, Graham Brooks, Alan Henshaw, Pat Fogden, Wendy Smith, Christine Chapman, Debbie Jones, Keith Hornsby,Zane Carpenter, Chris Rodgers, Joan and Jean Ruffle and I apologise for the other half dozen or so names that I am still racking my brains for, but I do remember a day trip to London with Pop Morrison to visit St Paul's cathedral,from where I still have a photo, if only I can find it of us all. My family have a long tradition of going to Fairlight, started by my grandfather, followed by my mother, myself and then my son, who has now been at work for a number of years -where do the years go! and who knows when he has children of his own, most likely to Fairlight. Even now I remember Miss Smith's custard yellow old style Capri, the monitor walking the corridor ringing the bell, the unforgettable smell of the varnished woodwork, not to mention Pop Morrison's smelly glue pot! used for making a table tennis bat I had for years and a small wooden house I made all those years ago in woodwork. I will do my best to see if I can track down any photographs to submit to this site for all the other Fairlighters out there. 

Chris; you have brought back more memories with talk of Mr Corbin and the monitors. I remember being a stairs monitor, ensuring that pupils coming in at break time went up the stairs quietly without pushing. Any offenders being extracted from the crowd and made to wait to the end. The boys' toilets outside in the playground, and the amazement of finding that on wet days there was a passage way through the gym(?) store that allowed you to get to the toilets without going outside. You must have been there a couple of years before me Chris, as Miss Brunt left while I was there, Mr Legge replaced her - with his tales of fighting the Japanese in the Far East. There were a couple of Fogdens there in my time as well.

Hi Geoff, glad that I was able to bring back a few memories, as you have done for me. Mr Legge, a name I had almost forgotten, but yes I now remember him too. And I also remember Pat Fogden, Julie Parker, Sara Shepperd. Please forgive me if I have forgotten anybody or spelt names wrongly, but it has been a few years now! I have spoken to my mother with a view to putting some photographs on this site, but she tells me she lent these pictures to the school on a loan basis but has never received them back, but I shall keep looking. And, yes, I remember the gym store, also under the stage in the hall, once getting shut in there during assembly and having to keep quite to avoid discovery! We also found that being young and skinny we could sqeeze down between the window and stairs leading up to the senior girls and hide in the space beneath, I certainly could not do it now!

...and what about the big sheets with the words of the hymns that were hung from an easel on the stage for morning assembly? I remember Pop Morrison being a real martinet with the boys in Gym - making us climb the ropes and go across the gym on the paired ropes near the stage.

Geoff, nice to hear more of your memories, it does help when somebody triggers thoughts of long lost times past. It helped me remember the large round gold coloured door bell to the headmistress's office with the illuminated writing and bell button in the middle, and the feeling of trepidation when having been summoned to the office you had to push the button and wait nervously for the sign to illuminate before you were allowed to go in! I also remember, as has been mentioned before, being shepherded in a long line of children along to the Connaught Mission next to Phillips the Stonemasons for school dinners, and after leaving secondary school. I then went on to work at Phillips for many years! and now find it very sad to now see it turned into a Pizza shop! Now the memories have started returning, I remember a Geoff Aston, would this be you Geoff?

Hi Chris, I remember so much of that and salvage day when we all took papers and one class was lucky enough when the salvage men came, to be chosen to carry all the papers down the stairs after they were weighed. It was much better than lessons. Hope you find that picture, I remember the trip but the shop lost my photos (either that or a made a complete pig of them and they were just being kind).

Hello Zane, yes I remember you well, and it is nice to hear from you and that there are at least a few of us from this era who can still remember the general day to day life at Fairlight. After all these years it helps to have the memory jogged by my fellow schoolmates, and it would be nice to hear from even more of my classmates. And Zane, I am still hunting for any photos of this time, particularly of our trip to London with Pop Morrison, and will submit them if they turn up.

I cannot remember the exact date I first went to Fairlight- I only know that I left there in November 1961 to emigrate with my parents to then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. I had a great time there. If any one remembers me please drop a line- it would be great to hear from you.