Copas however, seemed like a total gent. I was at Nevill Holt from 1962 to 1968. Mixed in to the mundane there were plenty of comic moments that still make me laugh and there were a few tragedies along the way too. So Philips gave him a good reference to go and work in another nearby prep school. Nevill Holt Hall is a Grade I-listed building, dating back to around 1400. FSP beat the living daylights out of me, 13x my 1st term, but it straightened me out. Took history, balding ginger hair and a temper. It lies to the south-east of the B664 road between For it to go on so long before one person actually had the confidence to do something about it I believe 20 years beggars belief.You and others were the shield behind which they could operate and continue to do so spare a thought for what went on around us. Indeed. The paths through the estate give you great views of the chapel, stable block and mansion, as well as the beautiful pieces of sculpture that are dotted around the grounds.

(RB) I was an inmate, from 1964 until I fought my last battle at the school after morning prayers at the end of year, 1969. Then he went to the Geography Library (just a few shelves in the corner) and went off on a terrifying rant about how we didn't treat the books right. Also was there in the 80's looking around and couldn't believe the size of the kids going on an away rugby game, but that was e back in the 70's. dinner, Mr. Hollingsworth who (quite reasonably) threw me out of his carpentry lesson for throwing sawdust around, several very patient matrons including Miss Webb, and one other amazing Maths teacher whose name I apologetically cannot recall, but who has my eternal gratitude for introducing me to the idea of Dungeons & Dragons (which I should not have pursued in his Maths lessons).I wonder if the current owner would allow guests at his opera events to wander the halls? It also states that "corporal punishment is rare and never severe".not true. For the rest of the year it runs a youth outreach programme, taking its work with music and drama to 34 academies across the East Midlands, aiming to bring the arts to school children who might not otherwise be I was only there for a few years but it seemed like much longer and has had a profound effect on my character and life since.Yes, there were good times and some "rose tinted" memories. I remember his once humiliating Mr Bellinger in front of the whole school for leaving a bit of baked potato on his plate.On the other hand, I have fond memories of DCSP, who was a good, kind and talented man, but my real hero, apart from his terrible jokes, was Mr Cooke. I went though it all, including diagrams from my Biology O level, after which I went and confessed what I'd done to Mr Phillips (David, always very kind to me). A contemporary mentioned that he drove a Sprite. He had a temper on him which I saw rather than experienced thankfully!Headmaster Wooley was a smiley weirdo who always seemed to be going off to seminars or such like. but I'm afraid when the police were making their enquiries about Clements they turned up real, yes real, evidence against Copas. I was at NH during those years and always had fond memories of matrons who looked after the girls dorm. I remember him 'cleansing' me on his lap.And then, unrelated to any of the above, the time when we all decided to scale the HP (the highest point) by getting into the roof space and out onto the apex of the roof. The cars shot past at about 50 so that was a glorious waste of time! Mr Waite taught history from a text book and you felt was only a couple of pages ahead of the class. Finally though does anyone remember seeing Nancy Cunard's signature in the attics? C13 - C15, restored 1878 and S porch dated 1635.

Just taught me not to get caught! So misrepresentation, to use a mild word, seems to have been a hallmark of those running the school.As to Ben C's final question; the answer is 'perhaps'I wrote to the current owner asking just this and received a very courteous reply directing me to his mother who lives on the estate. I remember a kindly old vicar who came and took the Sunday service about once a month - does anyone remember his name?Also I clearly recall Robin Peverett - whose previous role had been in the Pestalozzi Childrens Village - who I believe came to replace Mr Ridings and lived in a gatehouse. The transformation of Nevill Holt Opera in Leicestershire brings a touch of Glyndebourne to the Midlands and is a unique celebration of music, landscape and the English country house William Cash Watch the video Posted by David Ross Foundation at 08:47 Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest No doubt a lot of the practices of the time would be unthinkable nowadays (not being allowed to call home, having your letters home read and moderated by the headmaster? Yes, it is simply unbelievable than nobody adult knew what was going on there. I can only say that my (and I believe my friends' at the time, 80s) experience of him was a fine one. However, the wonderfully named Miss Robinette taught art and not french and was there as a short term replacement for Miss Barge who was having cancer therapy. I'd also condemn anyone who taught there during that period since in a school that size they must have known what was going on. I am sad to hear that he was an abuser. Funeral notice here: http://announce.jpress.co.uk/harboroughmailcouk/obituary/david-phillips/42098148To anyone affected by the events alluded to above: I was a pupil at Nevill Holt in the 1980s and am compiling the recollections of former pupils of all ages, to better understand my own experience there, and possibly with a view to writing something in the future. I just wish he had been thrown out sooner. I feel like a complete coward even now for not having said anything.Copas cheated those he abused out of justice and closure by his cowardly death. Which is why he hung himself.Anyway, everything written about Clements above is right. I lived locally and visited the school regularly and def every Sunday (illegal Tuck day). I went back to the school in 2005, and tried to look around but couldn't. After his accident he returned to school somewhat scarred and slightly disfigured. GV I . To the north-east of the Hall lies the village of Nevill Holt which consists of various cottages (some listed grade II), and Nevill Holt Farm (listed grade II). The garden lies to the north-west side of the Hall and is bounded to the north and west principally by a brick wall with a stone base (listed grade II). Was chatting to someone recently about NH. Why was Nevill Holt School the scene of a child abuse scandal?

If I ever bump into him in Eastbourne I won't wish him a good day.Because of the abuse I suffered I can't look back with any fondness for the place and I'm glad it was forced to shut. One year the queen was visiting many areas of the country and we all got dressed up in our white, blue and purple blazers and crocodiled off to the main road to Uppingham to see her. It is great to see old friends who are now on the school survivor's fb page and I keep hoping that one, who so far has not yet joined, will do so because I still miss him after all these years. SP 89 SW. 6/104 Church of St. Mary. Like the contributor mentioned above (we must have known one another), I was invited - and went - to Clements' house, while his wife was out, to learn how to body-build.

Did anyone else actually see the ghost walking through the wall in Goths dormitory, towards the chapel, or was that always just the terrifying Miss. I remember one of the older teachers frequently putting me over his knees and gently smacking my bum, apparently as punishment for whatever it was I was meant to have done. Overview. Here are my memories:FSP - drunken bully. WebEric Herndon shares his journey from graduating from the University of Louisiana Monroe in 2000 to becoming a strength coach at Neville High School in 2010.

Goodness knows how high it was but a long, long, way above the ground. I did however find Mr Lanyon's behaviour very odd. In 1919 the hall became a preparatory school, initially linked with Uppingham School. Her and Clements used to love bed inspection. Having explored the centre of the village with its medieval Packhorse Bridge and churches, the route leads you out through fields to reach the nearby old mansion, Nevill Holt. The pretty nurse called Miss Morgan and the story that she was Willie Morgan's sister was a joke put about by the young english master with whom she was having a fling. He used to stutter, sometimes terriblyprobably due to nerves (FSP) a tall good looking man with a v attractive wife. Probably why I always dropped my first rugby passes (hands ripped apart by FSP )! Hi Chris, how extraordinary that you saw my post! I was at NH between 76' and 81, i think Matty Weir must have a selective memory if he thinks Clements was never violent. Shame its not still a school it could have given allot of kids good opportunities.

she insisted on being called Sir! More could, I think, have been made of this, and it was only later that I began to appreciate it.Does anyone still have their copies of Condescend? )setter.I was in Goths, Romans and Greeks - that I can remember and possibly Vikings.the one up the spiral staircase at the back of sickbay?? I am very aware that many pupils had far better experiences than me at the school even during those years. I was told on arrival I had to be called Sir because I was on the teaching staff not a matron! Welcome to Nevill Holt!! piercing pale blue drunken eyes! I've chucked it away now. A headteacher who faked his name, age and qualifications to run a boarding school in Leicestershire for 40 years has been exposed as a fraud by his son. He never approved of Clements strict way and I even remembered walking into a classroom with Ron and Clements going at it about a punishment which Clements had handed out to a pupil. Since 2005, Nevill Holt had been hosting touring opera productions, so having its own opera house was a natural next step. After passing my Common Entrance, my parents got permission to take me to France for a week on business, as a reward. If I was ever to cross paths with him, I would say the same to his face. When David Serrill Philips took over, the school changed emphatically for the better. So I take an interest in its history - the Cunards and David Ross as well as the school.More on Lords Bonkers and his home here and here. I went to Nevill Holt between 1966 and 1971, a strange transition time between old Mr Phillips and young Mr Phillips.Old Mr Phillips was a stickler for discipline and rules, in my 1st term at school I remember the school rules being read out on our 1st evening. Do you have nothing better to do? Being beaten behind the knees which the sharp edge of a ruler. I'm afraid mine went years ago. Even after reading some of the comments posted quite a while after the one I made, I still think NH and the education it provided was very good. He could be very supportive and I still remember him being a very good history and geography teacher. Its name is derived from the Nevill family who owned it from the 15th century until 1876. I don't remember to much of Clements except that he was an unpleasant character. That's what you got at fee paying IAPS schools then. Never really got on with Copas so wouldn't comment. I have very positive memories of David Philips, a great classics teacher and EEC whose maths teaching was the best. I also think it very unfair to blame the head, other staff, parents etc. Church. That so many of us have hidden this is incredible and many more had a good education. Hilarious about Phillips family, always thought they were frauds !! And still a freak, I was was there between 1986 and 1990. As for Clements and Copas, Clements was a violent and spiteful man, full stop. Just about every architectural style and century, from the 14th onwards, was represented. I was there up to 1960 and never got my confiscated knives back.I remember E.E.C. But it was a very different world back then and one in which channels of communication and concern were quite restricted compared to what is now the case in similar establishments. My fond memory is of my one friend, Mr BA as Ge would be now, who suffered himself dye to his differences and who used to hang out behind the stables with me too. WebGallery of Nevill Holt Opera Theatre / Witherford Watson Mann Architects - 7. As I say at the start, I have come to regard Nevill Holt as the model for Bonkers Hall. Remember the cute nurse too who used to kiss you goodnight if you were lucky. I made some excuse but he put me under pressure over the course of a few days.After a few days Deas took me to one side and told me that he was aware of what had happened, that Copas felt terrible about it and it would not happen again. But I had a close shave myself when doing inspection of the upper sixth dorm, who fuelled by pubescent lust had clearly been planning an assault for some time. I was lucky not to be on the end of his temper but I remember plenty who were. He used to stroke my forehead and hold my leg; under the pretence that he was trying to calm me. 70 to 75,I have some very mixed memories. Hmmmmm. He has left me with a passion for history. possibly the only male teacher who I remember genuinely wanted to do right by the pupils. My brother tells me the boys cheered when his death was announced to the school. JB. WebIn 2013, Nicholas founded Nevill Holt Opera and established an award-winning education and associate artists programme. In the end he was punished for it. And it does seem a dreadful oversight to have let Edmund Clements remain for so long without being found out. I think it would have been early 80s. I remember she lived with her mother in a chocolate box cottage behind the church.

He was a systematic, violent, sex abuser who inflicted considerable pain on me whilst he violated me. I liked Copas a lot we went to athletics Nationals after I had won Leics county at 100/200/long jump. Disturbing days for far too many young boys and seriously scarring for some. Reading some of these posts - and also recently the book English Monsters - is horrific. (We lived in Lyddington at the time).Some fond memories: the Civil War hiding spots; the tuck shop; some great friends; building swords and shields in carpentry to play at being knights; Guy Fawkes night; playing conkers (overrated though it was). I was incredibly unhappy at that school. Nevill Holt School @NevillHoltPrep 1h. In my day The Great Hall was out of bounds. With hindsight I suspect they weren't. I did not manage to leave the choir, but was at least never left alone with him. This page refers to Nevill Holt Preparatory School, a boarding prep school operated between 1929 and 1998 at The Hall, Nevill Holt, Medbourne, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 8EG. If you would like to contact the researcher, please leave a comment below. That according to his punishment ledger I'd been caned more than any other boy in the history of the school ! might have been subject to a bit more scrutiny.

Miss Crombie was a bit like Miss Danvers in the Daphne du Maurier novel/film; 'Rebecca'. Turned out he was having an affair with one of the junior nursery staff at some point. My parents pulled us from the school when they were told we would have to board, the following year. My first term was September to December 1968 - was that when you were there?Yes it would have been my Aunt. I gave up music as soon as I could. The judge added that Clements, who admitted 33 sex offences against the six boys, had subjected his victims to "what any right-minded person would regard as degrading and perverted behaviour". I should know, I was also a student in the final years of the school.Since the dead cannot defend themselves, I have to wonder about the validity of the claim that he took part in the abuse.You see, the Copas I remember was very much the heart of that school - unlike several of his colleagues who could have done with some anger management classes, however efficient they were in their fields. He also made everyone use Chambers Dictionary alongside whichever book they were reading to learn new words each week. We need to understand the past to help protect children now and in the future.By sharing their experiences, victims and survivors make an important contribution to the work of the Inquiry and their experiences will feed into and influence our findings and recommendations. Like an earlier post we used to do the rubber (eraser) trick on the floor as she walked between the desks - pick up and look up the skirt. I was at NH from 58-64 and remember P Oakey very well and more distantly Pappa Clegg as he calls himself. All in all a not unpleasant time was spent in beautiful surroundings. I did though suffer extreme physical abuse, usually by cane to the hand, from the old headmaster and others, supplemented perhaps once every couple of weeks by the whipping of my arse, often protected by a layer of writing paper in my short trousers. At no time was there any abuse such has been described here. For all of your information, Edmund Clemants is now living in a flat in EASTBOURNE town centre!

I am not aware he that went any further!Wraite - I used to like is geography lessons and thought his ranting was brilliant.Miss Harbottle - rotund woman who smelt of mothballs.Mr Westlake - almost normal!EEC - I couldn't stand maths but he got me through CE in the 3 maths papers with flying colours. Outside of his sex abuse 'extra tuition' classes he had a bad temper. The model club, of which Mr Wraight (Ratty) was supervising master used to fly this and other craft around the Warren. Somewhere I have a photo of him and the airplane modelling club, with the plane called 'Bobby' that had a twin cylinder engine. Temper I have never since seen matched but had some self-control. Either way, he's guilty of a gross abuse of trust in my opinion. My parents, coincidentally became friendly with FSPs first wife. DCSP was a brilliant athlete, great rugby coach & a great Latin teacher. I also remember rather good food and that FSP always ate with the boys. I think there was quite a drinking culture at the top and it was clear that FSP and Miss Graham who became FSPs second wife were part of a serious drinking club that included EEC at weekends. When you get separated from your mother aged 8 and someone like Miss MacRonald becomes your principle female contact, it's bound to leave its marks. I wouldn't be surprised if his 'death' was made up to appease us. I remember boys getting seven bells knocked out of them in geography lessons, thrown down staircases etc on one occasion a boy in the year above me got a standing ovation after Clements had left the room having knocked him senseless but not made him cry !! What I actually saw was restricted as my spectacles were more or less always broken. Never wanted to discuss this until I saw everyone else's memories.Whilst many, but not all, really liked Mr Deas. Hi AP,You may find this hard to believe but I read this and I am Chris Ogle. For two years I was top of the form in maths at Winchester till I finally had to learn something new - and promptly sank to the bottom. It was such a different world back then. Anonymous from December 2011. Very sad and Griz must have felt responsible, cant think he was involved. Proper teachers such as Deas were a credit to their profession.I loathed the place and after passing my common Entrance exams to Uppingham was expelled after three further miserable years. (18961965) was born at Nevill Holt Hall in 1896. Mr Winter - a very good history teacher who got outed for being an agnostic. I remember Copas as being a man of great christian kindness. Closeted on a hill in a quiet part of Leicestershire, the ironstone hall He had been a good teacher of English, having amongst other things started up a short-lived newspaper/reporters club in and around the estate. The company has introduced countless young people What about mr lanyon hypnotising us asleep on his large stained bladder sack whilst our parents thought they were paying for extra music not perverted gratification.What about dragescu what happened to that pervert why is he not castrated or imprisonedWhat happened to the bent modelling teacher that touched you up what was his name and why has he not been to prison alsoI don't buy the excuse clements has found religion as though that will make it ok well it hasn't and never will. F.S.P. My guess is that he wasn't a participant in any of the abuse but was aware of it and said nothing, as a (wholly misguided) way of protecting the school's reputation. Or geography? He was never inappropriate with me and I spent a lot of time with him alone. My abiding memories of the school though are of freezing temperatures (it was a blessing that there was a fire in the Great Hall, which also served to help melt our air gun pellets as well as warm our chilblain-ed toes), a beautiful building (was the ceiling in one of the dorms really by Robert Adam? Those were some of my best years in education despite, looking back on it, the pretty harsh environment. I don't remember the fete and not sure if she eventually turned up to collect me.I do remember your name and a picture comes into my head - but it may be wrong! WebThis page refers to Nevill Holt Preparatory School, a boarding prep school operated between 1929 and 1998 at The Hall, Nevill Holt, Medbourne, Market Harborough, But in hindsight you realise he was bent.Mr Perry. I remember Miss Autry as the school secretary and a WONDERFUL teacher Miss Barge. Today, the way Copas behaved would create alarm. The teachers were largely self-interested and two-faced to uncertain and scared kids. He always seemed to stagger a bit at that time of day.Matron with her starched uniforms left me with a permanently trained ear for that rustle. Loved the place, except for my 2x weekly thrashings from FSP. Worst was, from what I now understand were a couple of perverted individuals, to the naked arse, and once when completely sans vtements. As he made me masturbate him over pornographic hard core images (I was 11 and 12 at the time) he would play out his sadistic fantasies of how he wanted to torture women. I did however receive several phone calls from the police when this all went public asking if i had been abused as apparently my name 'kept coming up' in the investigation. Dragescue, well everyone knew he was groping, but always felt the kids he had sitting in his lap didn't seem to object. That boy was taken down to Copas's place in the village to 'decorate' for him. Ratty (Mr Wraight) was in a car crash during one school holiday period and it was after that he turned violent towards the fabric of the school building and instilled fear into boys like myself who dreaded his approach to evening homework forms during prep. In the first years we used to go on walks - in a crocodile down the country roads, all in uniform. the carpentry master, who used to slam the top of a bench with the flat of a saw if he wanted quite; the snooker and billiard room; the swimming pool with the mangle; outdoor swedish exercises in the quad; the rifle range; catching moles and skinning themFilms, at the end of which we had to say "Thank you very much sir"Just thumbing thru' the brochure I still have of that era.. there appears to be an absence of a list of teachers which is v odd. WebNEVILL HOLT, Medbourne - 1001433 | Historic England Home Listing Search the List List Entry NEVILL HOLT Listed on the National Heritage List for England. I was hugely saddened to learn about his death and could not credit the things which were said of him. Mr Wooley always gave me the creeps with his suggestive comments.

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Ne Vile Bells. He had apparently been shot in the gut on an MTB during the war (probably not true) - and fuelled by morphine and vodka (kept in his tan coloured brief-case - that matched his always shiny tan coloured shoes) to dull the stomach pains, proceeded to creep around taking 'prep'- often sporting bleeding knuckles after punching out classroom door panels, splitting desk-tops and pencil boxes or even karate-chopping the top of the grand piano (played by puffy-fingered music-master, the oily Mr Moorhouse (mentioned by someone earlier) who offered me 10 shillings to come round to his thatched cottage in the grounds for tea. Serille Phillips was a remote, frightening figure who tyrannised parents as well as boys. I recall our letters home were censored, and Ernest Cooke was an excellent teacher who was relentlessly bullied by the monstrous Wraight. I liked him as a person , but found him a bit scary . WebNEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL, Nevill Holt - 1188367 | Historic England Home Listing Search the List List Entry NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL Did Nevill Holt have its own railway station? Mr Bellinger? His Father was a sadistical tyrant . I don't believe it would be possible for a school to be run that way today, and that's undoubtedly a good thing. However, its a beautiful place and I have fond memories too. It was a pretty mercilees environment for some, particularly the more vulnerable puils (of which, fortunately, I wasn't one). EEC (he with the wooden leg and the terrible old jokes) was an outstanding teacher and was basically the sole reason I gained a Maths scholarship to Uppingham.

That's why they went to the school to confront him with it. Mr Wrobleski taught history and Geography was a decent guy. Clements however, was a brutal and sadistic individual. Her rock cakes were most likely made from ingredients that included gravel from the front of the building. Clearly Clements was not the only bad apple but he seemed - from a reading of these postings - to be the catalyst for the meltdown.

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