The Old Royal Free School at Bachelor's Acre in Windsor

From the late sixties to around the start of the seventies I used to go the Royal Free School in Bachelor's Acre in Windsor. The headmaster there was a certain Mr. Evans..and he would use the slipper if anyone misbehaved. Fortunately, I was always well behaved, and never experienced this kind of punishment!!


Bachelor's Acre at that time was tarmacked and half of it was designated as a largeparking space. The other half was ofcourse the playground, and I always remember Mrs Sellars who had a child with her who had Down's Syndrome.


I recall that the school rooms were very airy, and spacious. I remember  the art teacher who was much taken by my artistic talents, and I enjoyed doing pictures with a historical theme to them. I even had the odd school exhibition in which I showed off my art work.

Another thing of note was that the desks for pupils were arcane. They were wooden, and when you lifted the lid up a pupil's school work was kept. There were even long disused ink wells on the desks as well...!


There was a large PE hall. I used to love clambering up, and down the wooden frames that lined the walls.


I seem to recall now that the dinner room used to be above the PE Hall if I am not mistaken. The food was quite good. One thing I seem to remember there was that there was a wall painting of a line of houses.

In 1977 I went to a private school known as the Tutorials.  







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