Age Concern Dorchester - Dorset's Living Memories

Remembering Lyme Regis Grammar School

Jo Musk writes...

I went to Lyme Regis Grammar School which was established by Alban Woodroffe in about 1924.  My brother was one of the first students there and I went in 1930.

 It was where the Woodmead Carpark is now.  There were about thirty students in a class but only thirty girls in the whole school.  There were about four girls in our class, none in the sixth form.  There were only two women teachers.  I was a mathematician and  so I was Mr. Thomas’s favourite - he taught maths.

Miss Carson taught English and Latin and Miss Slaney taught history and geography, which weren’t my subjects.  In Miss Carson’s class I had a seat at the back in the corner and I was knitting a jumper under the desk.  She caught me and made me unravel all the work I had done.  The headmaster was Mr. Watton.  I think he and one of his sons died during the war.

Did you know that Lyme Regis was the first town in Dorset to get electricity in 1909 thanks to Alban Woodroffe?