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I was at Stationers' from 66 to 72 so our time overlapped. I can't say it was the happiest time of my life, and this is one reason why I don't associate with the OSA.
The building were - in memory - magnificent and they went perfectly with the sense of tradition that was instilled into us. It is a great shame that the buildings were vandalised in the way they were.
With reference to the huts on the 'wilderness' between the two schools - my recollection is that they were art classrooms and metalwork workshops. There was also a two story prefabricated set of classrooms in the main playground on the right hand side, looking away from the main buildings.
I remember when we boys were first let into the old girls school - we were somewhat bemused by the wall mounted miniture gas incinerators in the girls toilets! A much more innocent age.....
I do remember there being a ban on fraternisation between the boys at Stationers and the Girls of Hornsey High - and I clearly remember the uproar when girls started being brought to use the new Language Lab!
It was a strict, probably mysogenistic, establishment that gave those whose faces fitted a first class education, but if you were not university material, then you were left to sink to your own level.
Good stuff. Fraternisation took place - a lot of it in what we called the wilderness, behind St Paul's (?) church. The vicar in the 50s complained to the head over what took place there and the, shall I say, detritus that was left behind...
The senior girls at Hornsey were allowed to use a house in Inderwick Road as a sixth form 'club' - for some time the challenge was to get inside without being caught. It came to a sad end of course.
Bottom of the hill was a fag shop in which further interraction with the as I recall burgundy clad irls of Hornsey High took place. The head at that time (name lost to mind) was the 'friend' of the mayor of Hornsey, Alderman Fred Cave, when i was on the HJ - I guess today we would have 'outed' them with glee!
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