Published Date:
01 May 2009
AS MAJOR Robin Barton says, health and safety just didn't come into it in those days.
When he and his classmates moved into Lancing College at the end of the war when the Royal Navy moved out, they were a tough, self-sufficient, independent unit.
"The windows were protected by blast walls, brick walls ten feet high", he recalls. "House by house we spent many many hours knocking those walls down with a sledgehammer.
"Health and safety would have had a fit. I used to walk along the top of the walls with a sledgehammer knocking the bricks out from under my feet!"
It was an unusual start to his schooling in West Sussex at an unusual time all-round. It was the first time he'd seen the school he'd been attending in name.
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Last Updated:
01 May 2009 9:47 AM
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Location:
Chichester
