Hailey School for Boys Bournemouth

a recent post in the online edition of The Bournemouth Echo:

PICTURES: Hailey School pupils and teachers in 1964 DAVID Adams loved the picture of Hailey School sent in by former pupil Colin Lambert and printed on November 23.

History of Bournemouth Wikipedia entry

History of Bournemouth - Wikipedia In 1800 the area was largely a remote and barren heathland, used only by smugglers - most notably Isaac Gulliver, now considered one of the founding fathers of Bournemouth - and revenue troops. 'Bourne Heath' was also known as Wallis Down in the north and Little Down in the south and east, and was p...

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Bournemouth Beach Sunny day at Bournemouth Beach 19/06/14. Taken from Phantom 2 with GoPo Hero 3+ Black. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bournemouth ...

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As the 1915 advert below says as a preparatory school the aim of the school was to 'prepare(s) boys for Public School ...'. In the years this author attended ('57-61) the most popular destination seemed to be Canford in Wimborne; it was relatively local for Hailey's catchment area. Other destinations amongst quite a few included King's Taunton, Allhallows in Lyme Regis, Clayesmore near Blandford, and King's Bruton in Somerset. The most difficult school to gain entry to in this part of the south of England, gauged by the overall % required in the Common Entrance exam, was Wi******er College. Perhaps not surprising considering the unofficial pecking order amongst these private schools ... Although Hailey itself was a day school most of its graduates would be going on to be boarders at their senior schools.

After the school closed in 1973 the site was used as an English Language centre. It is now King's Mews, a private housing development - see the images in the previous post.

current views of 31 Poole Road

Advertisement in Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire 1915

Hailey was founded to provide a prep school education for sons of the late victorian middle classes. The town of Bournemouth had expanded hugely and rapidly in the preceding years.

This is a local historian's Tim Lambert's description: 'In 1851 Bournemouth was still a little village with a population of only 695. But it was growing rapidly. By 1861 Bournemouth had a population of 1,707 ..... A little wooden jetty was built in 1855. In 1861 a proper wooden pier was built. In 1880 it was replaced by an iron pier ..... The railway reached Bournemouth in 1870, which made it far easier to reach, and increased the number of visitors. Victorian Bournemouth grew at a phenomenal rate. By 1881 the population of Bournemouth stood at 16,859. ..... In 1891 it reached 37,000'

Here is his full online history of the town:

A History of Bournemouth Until the early 19th century the area where Bournemouth now stands was just heath land where cattle grazed. Then in 1810 a man named Tregonwell visited the beach with his wife. She loved the area and persuaded him to build a house there. He purchased 8 1/2 acres and built a house with cottages for h…

Just before the founding of Hailey the famous author RL Stevenson lived in Bournemouth for a few years, near to where the school was to be, a time 'when he wrote and published a huge volume of work'.

Bournemouth - Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson's years in Skerryvore, his home in Bournemouth.