St Margaret’s School

I’ll never forget how I was hauled up in front of the then headmistress, Mrs Law, when I mentioned in GSCE History that Unity Mitford (of Fascism and Hitler loving fame) had attended the school (I was reading David Pryce’s biography of her at the time). I was threatened with suspension if I repeated it to others. This was twenty years ago and I’m sure all parties involved are long gone but my sense of it was they were far more concerned about keeping up appearances and enrollment than in the actual girls. Oh, and the chaps that worked in the kitchen slept with and /​or sold drugs to the sixth form girls. It was quite picturesque though. And the cape (go Nicholson!) did subsequently make an excellent dog blanket.