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UPFIELD , a Tudor style building of early nineteenth century,
once housed clothier Charles Stanton. The building was a preparatory school,
later run by the Harris family until 2001. Upfield Lodge
was occupied by Charles Offley Esq according to Pigot Directory
of 1830. Upfield is grade
II listed (SO 8505 NE)
and dates from the early 19th century. It is made of stone with gables and a
slate roof over three storeys. Stone mullion windows are decorated with
tracery. It has now been converted into private accommodation.
Photo of Upfield School staff and pupils on the lawn in
front of the School, courtesy of Jackie Wallis who is the girl with pigtails
on the extreme left of the row where the teachers are sitting. The
teacher in the centre with the very severe expression is the headmistress,
Mrs Jupp.
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In 2009, Jackie Wallis emailed us from Italy. She attended Upfield School
for Girls, Paganhill, from 1948 until 1952. "We wore a red and grey uniform
and I can well remember the tin church (we girls called it the tin-tab!!!)
where we often went on Sundays if we weren't taken to Cainscross.... We went
swimming and played tennis at Stratford Park. I have such happy memories of
this place."
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In June 2010, Margaret Walker wrote, "I think I was the youngest boarder there,
having arrived in September 1950 aged four years, eleven months and one
week! (i.e. 3 weeks off five years old). ...my father was the school doctor,
and somebody might remember Dr Kinsella visiting them in the school 'San'.
Jackie only overlapped with me at Upfield for a year when she was 16 and I
had just started, so sadly, I don't remember her, but we do both share
memories of teachers and the building.
In the early years, when I was a boarder I remember a very strict old
fashioned regimen and very cold dormitories. I think even then it was quite
old fashioned and seemed to specialize in girls whose parents were serving
in the last days of the empire, because I remember Matron taking them to
Heathrow for flights to Africa and India."
Photo of the front of Upfield School, courtesy of
Jackie Wallis.
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