Happy school days

I WAS interested to read the story about the new Littlehampton Academy building (Gazette, January 13).
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Jan 2011, 09:42 BST

Having lived in Elm Grove Road from 1925 to 1948, I can pass on details of the Maude Allen Girls’ School being built in the late 1930s.

When war broke out in 1939, I helped paste sticky strips on the school’s windows, against bomb blasts, as well as at Littlehampton Hospital.

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Between Elm Grove Road and Cornwall Road there was a cinder path track behind Dorset House and Rosemead schools, which we used to get to Connaught Road Boy’s School, currently to the north side of the Rosemead recreation ground.

From this path there were two large fields – one at the Elm Grove Road end used for crop growing, the other at the Cornwall Road end used for cattle grazing and hay-making.

Along the pathway from the end of Cornwall Road to Worthing Road, opposite the Toddington Lane junction, were a pair of houses, Cornfield Cottages, and farm buildings

I trust this helps the history lesson.

Bill Kelsey

Chaucer Avenue

Rustington