Red Gables 59, Uttoxeter
Description: Red Gables 59
Grade: II
Date Listed: 24 October 1950
English Heritage Building ID: 272928
OS Grid Reference: SK0909533698
OS Grid Coordinates: 409095, 333698
Latitude/Longitude: 52.9006, -1.8662
Location: A522, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire ST14 7JQ
Locality: Uttoxeter
Local Authority: East Staffordshire
County: Staffordshire
Country: England
Postcode: ST14 7JQ
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I was a boarder at Red Gables from 1955 to 1960. How well I remember all the rooms and the daily walk to school(Uttoxeter Girls High School)down Bradley St. (I think it was)
There was Big West Dorm, Little West Dorm, Middle Dorm,Garden Dorm and Little Garden Dorm. The dining room, was next to the front door, next to the big common room. We had prayers before breakfast in the Quiet Room which was opposite the cellar door. I would love to have a look down there. Miss Evans room was across the hall. I spent a lot of time in the sickbay opposite to Miss Evans bedroom. Only Miss Evans was allowed to use the grand front staircase. We girls used the back staircase which gave access to the little sewing room which had an iron, sewing machine and piano for music practice.
On the top floor where the maids used to sleep in previous times, we stored our suitcases and played table tennis.
There were kitchens looking onto the large garden where we played tennis,roller skated and sunbathed. Olive is still in touch with quite a few other old girls We could could write a book about the house. I would love to go back inside. I have been back twice but it was a library and closed.
Miss Beck was the first schoolmistress and I think she had lived there previously. Next came Miss Brookes and Miss Williams for my first term only. Them came doddery Miss Evans.
Mrs Burton was the first matron and then mad Miss Watkins (yes really mad) We called our matron the County Council Gas Lamp because she was bent over to the side.
Love to hear the previous and later history of the house. I know the council used it during the war.
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Rita Warren, 23 January 2012