Sunday 4 November 2018

Farnborough Hill



Farnborough Hill, which stands on the hill opposite Farnborough Abbey, with the south western mainline railway running in between, was formerly the Empress Eugenie's home, later and to date a girls school, which in my day was run by a teaching order of nuns.

 Back then, the Abbey provided chaplaincy to the Sisters and to the school. I really liked the church. It's organ, when playing low notes, could set up an amazing chest vibrating resonance!




It was a great pleasure to be invited as a novitiate to watch school plays and attend carol services.

The school had it's own swimming pool. Cuthbert and I would regularly use it privately on a Sunday afternoon, having first collected the key from the Sisters.