I did not tell anyone until I met my wife - some 13 years later.When Copas hung himself the police came to see me and they were already aware of what had happened. Abuses that I experienced, not solely those of Clements', included being lifted up bodily and thrown across a grand piano, being dragged around a rugby field by my hair, and being threatened with a golf club. Not a chance it would pass an OFSTEAD inspection these days! View details 
Concert House Facade. Felt sorry for his kids as he was clearly mean to them but was fine with the pupils.Jeff Hancock - fiery red head Geordie who taught science and rode a harley. Just taught me not to get caught! Griz was always kind to me but I worry in hindsight when I remember him taking a box or Roses chocolates I had been sent for my birthday from me but then allowing me to go to his room to take one whenever I wanted one.I always managed to go when he was out, so the most dangerous thing that happened was a good slobbering from his lovely (Irish? !My life became better when I left. Wow I've just come to this blog.I'm the one who set in motion the chain of events closing the school. I remember a kindly old vicar who came and took the Sunday service about once a month - does anyone remember his name?Also I clearly recall Robin Peverett - whose previous role had been in the Pestalozzi Childrens Village - who I believe came to replace Mr Ridings and lived in a gatehouse. 70 to 75,I have some very mixed memories. WebSTABLE BLOCK AT NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL. I seem to have done the world a favor and ridded it of one less peado. As an 8-year-old I thought everyone had to go to a school like this. I'm sorry for the people who were abused. It was probably the best school I ever went to - although at the time i used to do as much as possible to break the rules and thus was caned almost every week!! clements you have affected many young lives and should be punished far more than you have been.I feel sad the school is no longer as many good teachers good pupils have been affected by these gross acts. I remember all the staff - David Phillips and his rags to riches wife Nina. Yes, it is simply unbelievable than nobody adult knew what was going on there. Edmund Clements (59) abused the boys, then aged between eight and 12, from 1974 to 1984, Leicester Crown Court was told. I liked him as a person , but found him a bit scary . If I ever bump into him in Eastbourne I won't wish him a good day.Because of the abuse I suffered I can't look back with any fondness for the place and I'm glad it was forced to shut. I remember spending my break and lunchtimes hiding round the back near the stables where I made friends with other sensitive types. Finally though does anyone remember seeing Nancy Cunard's signature in the attics? possibly the only male teacher who I remember genuinely wanted to do right by the pupils. You are very brave to share such a horrid experience. EEC (he with the wooden leg and the terrible old jokes) was an outstanding teacher and was basically the sole reason I gained a Maths scholarship to Uppingham. My memories resonate with those of my contemporaries in that NH was a very good prep school back in the 50s and 60s with outstanding academic results. I never saw a child who was afraid of Griz, and the children all skipped happily around him. He was never inappropriate with me and I spent a lot of time with him alone. I was there 74-77 remember Clements was bad tempered and shifty in extreme i got on with Copas remember going on school skiing trip with him and Deaso Where does Bonkers Hall come into it? The abuse took place while he was a geography master at the Nevill Holt Prep School, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. I cannot recall a Clements at all, and suspect I (luckily) never encountered him.I too greatly enjoyed my time at Nevill Holt, and now tend to describe it envious friends as akin to attending Hogwarts. Mr Moorehouse was eccentric and had me beaten for pulling a chair away from somebody about to sit down .Mr Waite was my favourite teacher ,he drove a Sprite I believe . Me again! Then he went to the Geography Library (just a few shelves in the corner) and went off on a terrifying rant about how we didn't treat the books right. Nevill Holt Opera planned to perform Verdi's La traviata and Mozart's Don Giovanni in their award-winning new theatre (which opened in 2018) for the 2020 season. I remember Mr. moorehouse and Ernest Cooke (Friday Night is Music Nightand A Hundred Best Tunes.how it brings it all back). It is great to see old friends who are now on the school survivor's fb page and I keep hoping that one, who so far has not yet joined, will do so because I still miss him after all these years. French was taught (not well) by a Mr Thomas aka Tommy. Please don't deny his guilt, it insults those few who had their innocence stolen. Clements as a violent psycho. My abiding memories of the school though are of freezing temperatures (it was a blessing that there was a fire in the Great Hall, which also served to help melt our air gun pellets as well as warm our chilblain-ed toes), a beautiful building (was the ceiling in one of the dorms really by Robert Adam? When David Serrill Philips took over, the school changed emphatically for the better. More could, I think, have been made of this, and it was only later that I began to appreciate it.Does anyone still have their copies of Condescend? Received the cane on many occasions along with the slipper, gym shoe, hockey stick and othersdid not do me any harm. Hilarious about Phillips family, always thought they were frauds !! He would let us listen to Your 100 Best Tunes and Semprini Serenade of a Sunday evening in the dorm next doorI remember blackberrying, and being forced to eat tapioca and sago pudding (which I have detested ever since)There were majors and minor;, standing in front of the bell; crocodile walks to Medbourne; pirate radio; rugs; the tuck shop and sanatorium, letters home being read and censoredDCSP, now I believe 88, was a v good rugby player (did he play for Cambridge University?) He used to stutter, sometimes terriblyprobably due to nerves (FSP) a tall good looking man with a v attractive wife. Clements was undoubtedly strange and unpredictable. Mr Bakewell's woodwork sessions were also a fond memory. What I actually saw was restricted as my spectacles were more or less always broken. I find it fascinating that comments are still being left on this piece, two years after its writing.Another former pupil, '89-'94, and I'd like to add my voice to those speaking up for Peter Copas (or Griz, as he's been referred to above; suspect this was due to his extensive facial hair, but never did discover for sure). I met the later head Woolley, after he had fallen out with IAPS and departed the school, teaching A-level economics during an inspection of a prestigious girls's school plausibly but entirely erroneously. Back in the early '50s, through my leaving in 1958, it was an exceptional school (FSP excepted), which got great academic & sporting results - envied by our peer schools. That fight, against a boy I perceived as a particular bully. every year, who batted with specially reduced width bats;FSP's green Bentley and the other one with the NH no plateThe gravel being raked every Saturday morning and the smoke of Corby in the distance. I was told , on leaving, by S.P. Frederick i cant believe the teacher in the scandal hung him self, i never thought of some one with his teaching skills and personality would be involved in such a thing, I new him very very well and spent allot of time with him and had no sense of funny goings on at all! "it was brilliant. He was a kind man, who was probably wounded in the Great War. My sympathy goes out to all the kids who were abused, and trust that they have not let a total scumbag ruin their lives completely. WebNevill Holt, Market Harborough . There seems to be much innuendo in these comments about Mr Copas but nothing substantial. Invites to his house to listen to audio books and plays, albeit this was always done as part of a group did not feel inappropriate at the time, but today it would be. My guess is that he wasn't a participant in any of the abuse but was aware of it and said nothing, as a (wholly misguided) way of protecting the school's reputation. Mr Westlake, whose bizarre rants about the "rotten core of this school" we always supposed were directed at us. I remember 2pm as the dreaded hour each dayI have to say I don't recall anything untoward in the behaviour of the teachers during my sentence.stay, but I do remember Mr Moorhouse (he of the jam making company?) I was also there during those years. Entrance to Nevill Holt Hall - geograph.org.uk - 565944.jpg 640 441; 125 KB. Reading some of these posts - and also recently the book English Monsters - is horrific. I recall him as a patient and affable man, fair in his dealings with pupils, and a great teacher of English and director of school plays. The French abbess Ann Nevill was born here in 1605. The quality of the teaching I think though was high - Cook, and Copas, particularly stick in my mind. One night I remember Griz arriving late at night and going into his room opposite.
Good School for me. Did Nevill Holt have its own railway station? The 400-seat auditorium - which sits in the I was a pupil 43-48. I would welcome contact from anyone who has anything to offer, anonymously or otherwise, relevant to the abuse claims or not. One wonders how the role was advertised. I used to have piano lessons with him; which I dreaded.
Anonymous 74-79On the whole I agree with most of the above.
I cannot change the past I know, but I will always feel .. Mr Clements if you ever read any of these posts, 10 years was not nearly adequate for what you did and I hope and pray you are punished every day of your miserable life. I remember his once humiliating Mr Bellinger in front of the whole school for leaving a bit of baked potato on his plate.On the other hand, I have fond memories of DCSP, who was a good, kind and talented man, but my real hero, apart from his terrible jokes, was Mr Cooke. In hindsight though it was thoroughly Dickensian. Looking back, the quality of the education was very good but much of it was lost on me at the time. The model club, of which Mr Wraight (Ratty) was supervising master used to fly this and other craft around the Warren. I think it was your aunt who forgot to collect you so I and the under matron looked after you. I would like, for the sake of their reputations, to add that Mr Phillips and Griz were - in my experience - very caring indivduals. His dog did bite me once though :-)I agree that Clements was not pleasant. I think it would have been early 80s. Rubbish! I do remember FSP would open the window of his private quarters often when we were on the gravel and shout a boy's nameI also remember my parents having to visit the school in person just to ask FSP if I could have a Saturday off to go to a wedding.did half term exist in those days? As someone else recently observed, the collective experience was about as good a preparation for life as anyone might hope for. ).Returned to look around the school in the early 2000s. 'Bobby' was an amazing remote controlled monoplane built by a boy called Wallace. Robin David Peverett, paedophile teacher at Eastbourne College Preparatory School, Pestalozzi Village, Nevill Holt Think we overlapped. I ran into an old boy in London who had also attended (but was several decades my senior)and our stories of the place where virtually the same.it was clearly in a time of its own.I think I would have been too young to understand much about the types of abuse that happened but I was terrified by Clements and recall being hit by the black board rubber or being hauled out infront of a class and whacked across my rump or the backs or my legs - not great in the summer term with shorts on. Does any one else remember Clements' dogs? Mr Ridings was ok and had a very attractive wife .Miss Barge was great and also one of the Matrons .Fortunately there wasn't any abuse that I can recall .Ernie Cooke was a nice man .
I will treat any information received in confidence.You can reach me at holtnevill [at] gmail [dot] com, I thank you for being the whistle blower as others do but why did it take 20 years forany of us to pluck up courage ? when he burped. I remember Miss Autry as the school secretary and a WONDERFUL teacher Miss Barge. I had every NH record from 100 1500 Long Jump & High Jump and won the County Championships all under his tutelage. I was a quiet and timid child - father in the navy - who attended during the mid 80s. That's why they went to the school to confront him with it. I was there from 1978 -1980. Circa Date: 1400 w/15th, 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th century alterations and additions. I am not aware he that went any further!Wraite - I used to like is geography lessons and thought his ranting was brilliant.Miss Harbottle - rotund woman who smelt of mothballs.Mr Westlake - almost normal!EEC - I couldn't stand maths but he got me through CE in the 3 maths papers with flying colours. David Phillips taught me cricket ,rugby and soccer very well . I failed O level 6 times!Miss Peacock (not sure if that is correct but it did begin with P) - she took art and we all had a crush on her.
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