Hatton Park School
Hatton Park School:
With the arrival of the RAF Longstanton School struggled to cope with the numbers of children that needed schooling here in the village. For a while some of the older children were schooled on the camp. Finally c 1953 the position became unsustainable - overcrowding and unsanitary conditions at the school on School Lane meant that a new “modern” school was built in the Hatton Park – on the former site of the Hatton’s Mansion House. My filmed interview with Bob and Thlema Jopling covers this period in detail.
Below is a photograph of Hatton Park School 1958 – Gerald Wright front right hand side. Kindly supplied by Mr and Mrs G Wright.
In 2006 /7 work started on the third “new” school for Longstanton and summer 2008 saw the official opening of a 21st Century village school.
http://www.hattonparkschool.co.uk/
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