September 1958 and I started as a boarder at Campbell College. The first year was at Ormiston, as sort of reception House, to get boys used to institutional life
My mother packs me off to Campbell
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Ormiston was a separate estate just outside the main Campbell Estate. It was used by the school until they sold it off in 1974, and it has now been restored to a private house. The housemaster , Bob Wells , had a wife and two children
I noticed an article in the Old Campbellian, that Mrs Wells was 100 in Nov 2020. Bob was gruff, and a little frightening until you got to know him, And she was a very reassuring presence for small boys. I was in Ormiston in my first term, the went back as a House Prefect in my Lower Sixth year. I was also Captain Of swimming and the pool was in Ormiston Grounds, and Bob Wells was the master in charge of swimming, so I had a lot of contact with him.
