The school was a going concern when it transferred to the occupancy of the right wing of Miss Overton's Westfield House in about 1932-3

Mr Betts was then in charge. He was ably supported by his sister, with a series of local assistants. They ran a meticulously careful preparatory school from which boys passed successfully at 11+ to Slough Grammar school, or, at 13+, to several other well respected schools.

In early 1938, the school moved to Shires End following Miss Bright moving with Miss Kidwell to the new Linton House. It was a modest establishment with approximately 30 pupils. There had been plans that the school would expand into Richings Lodge but these failed. The school continued into the war but had gone by the end in 1945.

Mick Crowther recalls "I joined the school aged 6 in 1935. Also at the school, two years ahead of me, was Mr George Simmons resident at Shires End for some 30 or more years. I left

at the end of summer 1939 to go to Slough Grammar. Here were already Donald Fletcher -from the cycle shop in Thorney Lane South and Rex Bishop - from 15 Bathurst Walk (I think). They were in the Scout Troop when I was. Four others of my contemporaries also went to Slough Grammar - others ended up in Haileybury, Merchant Taylors, and Northwood.

"There was very careful attention to accurate self-expression both orally and in writing. I can't remember French but I had already done the first year in Latin, when I arrived in Slough. Basic books on History and Literature had been studied. BBC Sports programmes on the wireless were regularly taken. There were school visits - I went twice to dress rehearsals of the Aldershot Tattoo - a 'Tizer and Crisps' trip. We visited Britannic Cable on what is now the Ridgeway Estate and the Uxbridge Flint Brick factory in Cowley, then with its original name - Hunziker (it was then Cape Boards and now a car

sales yard). I remember a rather wet afternoon at a matinee at Regents Park Open Air Theatre. Games, however were sketchy - but maintained."

Good Night's Sleep

These schools variously prepared children for:

• Halidon House school (for girls) in the now extinguished Mackenzie Street in Slough (former approach to Slough Station). It then moved to Fulmer and is now defunct.
• Uxbridge High School, later Frays College.