FARNHAM JUNIOR ART SCHOOL

In conversation with a woman that I had not met before at a dinner party in a village in Hampshire on a Tuesday evening in September 2005, she told me that in the late 1950's she had left mainstream school at the age of 13 and gone straight to the Junior Art School in Farnham. I had gone to art school (in Leicester) at the age of 17 in 1967; I had never previously heard of 13 year olds going to art school. I was envious ! The following Saturday I was at a large wedding party in the garden of a house in Blackheath London. In conversation with a woman that I had not met before she told me that in the late 1950's she had left mainstream school at the age of 13 and gone straight to the Junior Art School in Farnham. I thought that I was experiencing a deja vu from the conversation of 5 days previously. I was able to put these two women in contact with each other. They were the same age and had been friends on the same course at Farnham but had not met since the late 1950's.