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.
