Chris Snuggs: "I wonder what happened to all the library books when the school closed down?"

Barry Clark - Hansons 58-65: “Like so much of the equipment, it was shared to local schools. I don't have a lot of details but the science lab stools were taken (by me) to Farlingaye. Although the London Residuary Body looked after the building and the financial aspects during the final year - after the winding up of the ILEA - and may have important records if it still exists, Suffolk County Council looked after aspects of the school."

Harvey Angel - Hansons 64-71: “Someone told me that a lot of books from the library were going to be thrown out. Neil Clayton had an antique books business and so he was able to "stock up" with books that were otherwise going to be disposed of. I remember reading through all those really old Wisden Almanacks, back to the time when Jack Hobbs was opening for England and even earlier, plus the prime years of Don Bradman. And, of course, the 19th century Punch magazines.”

Barry Clark: "'Someone' is incorrect. I think staff did get to pick over books they might have wanted. I think I know where the Wisdens went! I was resident in the Hanson's House master's flat and at the beginning of the Summer Holidays, after the last pupils had left, they started burning the furniture down in the ferns. I did purchase (I still have the receipts) a Library table, now my dining-table, some bookcases and some of the apparatus and equipment cupboards from the science labs, and my Johnston's desk, for sentimental reasons - Oh and a wooden cupboard, affectionately called "The Wanker' as a result of some graffiti scratched in it. See below.