Theme: Long Marston School

The Headmaster’s wife’s tale

After receiving valuable new material from Long Marston School, we are now able to share a personal experience of that fateful day from a different perspective. All previous accounts of the bombing of the school have been from the children; this recently discovered account is from Margaret Savage, wife of the Headmaster.

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A day of tragedy; the Children’s View

This fourth episode of school life during World War II is also based on the edition of SCOOP produced in the Spring of 1942, about 15 months after the bombing which so changed the running of the school and the lives of the pupils.

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Recovering from Disaster

This third episode of school life during World War II is based on the edition of SCOOP produced in the Spring of 1942, about 15 months after the bombing which so changed the running of the school and the lives of the pupils.

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Children of the War

In 2021 we were privileged to interview three residents of Long Marston who were alive when a bomb dropped on Long Marston school in January 1941.

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Scoop Magazine

‘Scoop’ was the magazine published by the children at Long Marston school, every term, in the 1940s. We have obtained copies of the magazine which provides an insight into the effects of the bombing of the school as well as the thoughts from children that were evacuated from London to Long Marston during the war.

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Long Marston School

The day the war came to Long Marston (part 1)

It seems extraordinary that Long Marston School should have been destroyed by a German bomb in January 1941. Eunice Hall, five years old at the time, recalls her own memories of that fateful day and we discuss the impact on village life

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