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Cheltenham College: The Bursar’s Tale by College1841
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People in story: Roland Pelly
Location of story: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Article ID: A7794408
Contributed on: 15 December 2005
In 1939 Cheltenham College was evacuated to Shrewsbury School which meant the Bursar spent a great deal of time travelling between the two sites. On 30 January 1940 the journey took even longer than usual.
The train was over an hour late starting from Shrewsbury and stopped at every station. At Birmingham he had to struggle through six inches of snow to reach the other station. He eventually arrived at Cheltenham two hours late in the total darkness of the blackout.
There had been no snow but plenty of rain which had frozen. He fell in the station yard and seven times more before the first roundabout. Bags shot in opposite directions and the torch in the third. They were recovered on hands and knees with the aid of matches and he decided to tackle the problem scientifically. He found there was a slight crunchiness in the gutter wide enough for one foot but not for two, so with one foot in the gutter and the other on the ice pavement, he hobbled.
Battered and hungry he reached the edge of the College playing field and decided progress might be easier across the grass than on the road. It was, but it was like walking across a mass of broken milk bottles and, when he had to deviate from a straight line to negotiate unexpected ponds which had formed in hollows, he got incredibly lost.
At last he reached the gate of his house only to discover that the latch was embedded in ice and nothing would budge it. So near and yet so far. He pushed his bags through the wire, struggled over the gate, stepped on the frozen path and took his last graceful header. But he was home.
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Archive List > Childhood and Evacuation Contributed by College1841People in story: Michael WalfordLocation of story: Cheltenham to ShrewsburyArticle ID: A7945905Contributed on: 21 December 2005
In 1939 the Headmaster of Cheltenham College was informed that in the event of war all the College buildings would be required as emergency accommodation for the Civil Service. Shrewsbury School agreed that the College could share its premises temporarily and in the autumn some 350 Cheltenham boarders and day boys moved to Shrewsbury. They remained for two terms before returning to Cheltenham.
Michael Walford, a boarder from 1938 to 1942, recalls the experience:
‘I was allocated a billet with the Denville Jones family (he was a local dentist) together with Coplans, Macdonald and Collins … The Denville Jones put all four of us in their spare bedroom and we had the use of another small room for doing our prep. Meals were taken in their dining room by ourselves.
In order to share the school facilities jointly, our day used to start with a meeting in the Allington Hall where I think we were lectured by the Pot [the Headmaster] or Pink Flea [a senior master] and then by our respective housemasters. We then turned out for games. Afternoons were spent in the classrooms and labs only just vacated by Salopians.
As a result of these arrangements we hardly ever saw or had a chance to speak to the Shrewsbury boys — nevertheless there was a general feeling by us that they were distinctly inferior as they were a soccer school. The staff on both sides I was told many years later were always concerned that a pitched battle might break out but at 2nd year level we had other things to think about.
The phoney war period did little to impinge on our lives and though food rationing had started there still seemed plenty to keep us well fed. Margarine became a regular edible fat and I was severely berated one teatime for asking someone to pass the “marge”. Mrs D-J still thought we should be only eating butter and referring to it as such when visitors were present’
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