The Downs School As Was
Aug. 31st, 2018 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloMy mother: Why are you going to Seaford?
Me: Because we like it. Don't you?
My mother: No. I was sent away to school there.
The English middle and upper classes for many generations thought it was advantageous and altogether the done thing to send their children away to boarding school. God knows why. And it still goes on....
My mother's school was called The Downs; it closed in 1964. We drove past the site on our way into town. It is now occupied by flats (housed in the old buildings) and a leisure centre.
Me: Because we like it. Don't you?
My mother: No. I was sent away to school there.
The English middle and upper classes for many generations thought it was advantageous and altogether the done thing to send their children away to boarding school. God knows why. And it still goes on....
My mother's school was called The Downs; it closed in 1964. We drove past the site on our way into town. It is now occupied by flats (housed in the old buildings) and a leisure centre.
