The way we were

Photographs from the Country Life archive

1900 September Published 22

‘Children Drilling’ outside Medmenham Schools, Buckinghamshire. The school was built as part of a model estate for Robert Hudson of Medmenham Abbey and Danesfield to designs by W. H. Romaine walker in 1899. It had 60 scholars on the register and three mistresses.

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