Christmas – a time of excitement
Here is a delightful photo of former headmistress Ruth Rudge during one of the West Heath Christmas lunches held just before the end of term when you could feel the excitement as pupils and staff prepared to head home to…
The drama hall has gone – long live the new hall…
by Frank ‘Scoop’ Baldwin Do you have memories of performing plays or music recitals on the large stage in the West Heath Drama Hall? Maybe you remember morning assemblies, or sitting at a desk anxiously waiting to start an exam….
Grease is the word
The West Heath drama hall was transformed into the fictional Rydell High School for a performance of the musical ‘Grease’ back in the 90s. A video of the show has come to light and a full length version appears on…
Staff’s Queen performance caught on camera!
50 years ago this month, on 31 October 1975, Queen released their ground-breaking single Bohemian Rhapsody. About 10 years later in 1985, Queen performed the song at the Live Aid charity concert at Wembley when the band stole the show….
Claydon House mystery solved
Frank ‘Scoop’ Baldwin takes us on a trip back in time to when West Heath pupils and staff were evacuated to an historic house in Buckinghamshire during the second world war to avoid being caught in ‘Doodlebug Alley’. When the…
WHOGS who lunch
Bridget Wood writes… Just had a brilliant get together for lunch of girls who started in the 1965/66 era. The reunion was kindly organised and produced by Tina Klarfelt (Campbell) in Hampshire. And below is a photo of the lacrosse…
Can you help solve the Claydon House mystery?
Griselda Gifford (nee Willoughby), who is one of the oldest surviving members of WHOGA, made contact recently after seeing the West Heath Old Girls Association page on Facebook. She is kindly supplying some personal memories of her time at West…
Elisabeth becomes one of ‘The Party Girls’ at World Premiere in Kent and goes on tour
Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, who attended West Heath in the 80s, has firmly established herself in the world of acting. Her roles include playing Zara Carmichael in the BBC soap opera Doctors. She won an award for Best Female Acting Performance at…
Annual reunions from the past
An old, small notebook found among some old West Heath paperwork contained details of past reunions for year groups at West Heath. Some of these details included names of the people who had attended and there were also some faded…
Annabel Croft’s Valentine’s Day meeting
Annabel’s Park life Former British Number 1 tennis player turned commentator, Annabel Croft, swapped her racquet for a spade to plant a tree in Richmond Park on Valentine’s Day.It followed an invitation made to the West Heath old girl to…