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Ladycross was a Catholic preparatory school based in Seaford, East Sussex, overlooking the downs with trenches which led up to the cliffs. Founded in 1891, more than 2,000 pupils attended it before its closure in 1977. Among its notable schoolmasters was children's book author George Mills, who taught during the summer of 1956. ==History== At the height of the German bombing raids on British towns in 1941, the school was temporarily evacuated to Salperton Park, Gloucestershire. After the sale of the school by its founding family the Ropers in the 1950s, the school was owned and run by a Birmingham stockbroker and classicist named Michael Feeny over the next quarter century with a complement of long-serving staff members. Feeny had little experience of education and tended to substitute brutal bullying for spiritual counselling and guidance. Numbers and reputation fell dramatically under his watch. Approaching retirement, it was therefore little surprise that Feeny was unable to find a suitable buyer to continue the school operations. Instead of selling up to developers and collecting a considerable amount, as most other Head Masters of the privately owned preparatory schools in Seaford had been doing for years, Feeny set up a trust to take the school over. He handed over the school and all his assets to the Trust, which under its new governors allowed the school to be increasingly rundown. Feeny was left destitute and in considerable financial difficulties in his later years. The Trust had tried to make a financial turn out of the mid-70s property boom by selling the site and buying a cheaper one inland. However, the deal went sour, leaving the school with insurmountable debts. For the last two years, the stewardship of the school was passed on to John Wardale and his wife Maureen, overseen by a board of governors. The financial issues escalated, making the sale of the site to a property developer and the closure of the school inevitable, despite the last-minute desperate attempt to raise funds from old boys. In 1978, the school buildings were razed to make way for a housing estate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ladycross School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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