2016 saw LDHS prepare a Heritage Board which has been erected near the pond at Hatton Park School. We are delighted to have been asked to contribute to a project which helps ensure that the old pond becomes an integrated part of the children’s education and helps ensure that the pond remains an important habitat for wildlife in the village. With the development of Northstowe on land adjacent to the school the pond is an increasingly important ecological feature of the old village.
2016 Hatton Park School Heritage Board
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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