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I was delighted to find this site with so many familiar names. I was very young when I first went to teach at the School in Beckenham. In fact I was not much older than many of the students and younger than some. I was petrified of Kassimoff and Tom Freeth and felt very much their inferior junior. My cache was that I was Peter Werner’s nephew by marriage.
My favourite memory was when I organized a week of visits to the British Museum. Each day a different class came up and met me at the front of the building. I gave strict instructions that everyone should look neat and well dressed as we were representing the school. All was fine until Friday when it was the turn of the illustrators to arrive. I waited in the portico of the Museum and suddenly saw at the end of the long approach drive a motley assembly of my favourite students. They had top hats, feather boas, parasols, you name it and they were wearing it. I had to watch this wild assortment walk slowly towards me. I greeted them as if nothing was out of the ordinary, but loved them dearly. I had a very happy life at Beckenham and ended my teaching career as director of a College of Craft and Design in Canada, heavily modeled on BSOA.