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New Site! New Site! http://www.duncanhallschool.com will take over from this site in the next week, with no adverts, forums, a place to dump pictures and places to hang out with the other people you used to know. Bookmark it as this place will be going bye bye very soon.

The Guest book is at the bottom of this page.  Please sign it.You will need to get shockwave to view these pages in full.

Well, I updated the site.  Got it working great.  Then completely deleted all of the new bits by mistake.  (Sighhhhh)

I got some e-mail from an old boy who attended in the 1950s at Duncan Hall.  I will cut and paste in his e-mail as it containst interesting information.

I've got a couple of old photo's, one from 1955 (about 130 pupils and one from 1960, with about 160) Some of football teams and the some of the School choir, which was formed by Victor Hugo Searles, ex Flight Lieutenant RAF,ex music Teacher, then to become a Vernons Pools winner, a school owner and Principle, later to be replaced by David Rawnsley, who was in the same class as myself. Also I believe Mrs.Rawnsley still owns and Runs the Scratby Caravan site, I noticed that in the Caravan Club Book. In Nelsons Day the school was in the Centre of Yarmouth, known as Duncan House school, it was bombed during WW2 at the same time as St.Nicholas's Church, I believe,and then moved to Scratby Hall, and renamed Duncan Hall by the then owners Mr and Mrs Morgan-Hughes

I would suggest to readers of the site therefore, that anyone living in Great Yarmouth who wants to help out, could do worse than try to look up the old school in the centre of Yarmouth, and see if they can find an archive picture.  I would like to thank Sandy Hinshalwood greatly for taking the time to e-mail with this interesting snippet for us.  As usual, any old boys wanting to write in, please do.

I just know that all regular viewers of the site have been waiting for this moment, and if you look to the left, you will see what you have been waiting for...  THE PHOTO TOUR!  My photographs, taken by kind permission of the current owners.  As I have always stated, please DO NOT visit the site without full permission of the owners.  The property is no longer 'our' property, even though I know that we all have a bond with the place.

Duncan Hall School was a school in Scratby, Norfolk(Near Great Yarmouth).  It has been linked with Lord Admiral Nelson, who learned to sail on the Norfolk Broads not far from the school.  The school had it's heyday in the 1960's, when it was a well ran and popular school, responsible for producing many well balanced individuals.  In the 70's, the place went downhill, finally closing at the beginning of the 1980's.  The building and grounds were sold, burned down and eventually were partially restored to become a private house for a family.  

(Renamed Scratby Hall)

I will stress the following point now:  DO NOT GO AND VISIT THE OLD SCHOOL WITHOUT PERMISSION.  We do not have the right to visit the property just because we went to school there.  Respect other people's property please.  If someone knows the name of the new owners and their telephone number, please e-mail me it at cris@3d-palace.com.  I would dearly like to get in touch with the new owners to discover who owns the East House property now.  I know that it has been vacant for twenty years now and needs considerable refurbishment to get it up to par, however I intend to purchase it.

I am intending to put a 'Nice Bits' section in the website shortly.  Please e-mail me with things that you actually liked from DHS, things that were good and so on, and I will put it in.  Contrary to what you may believe from reading this site, 99% of the boys who went there actually quite liked the place when they weren't being poisoned / bullied / injured / taught nothing at all.

March 7th 2000

A chap from the Yarmouth Mercury has been in touch with me, to confirm that the website will be mentioned in this weeks issue.  I am expecting a few old boys to visit the site this week that haven't been in before.  If you are a new visitor, then welcome in.  

March 2nd 2000

I have added a new feature.  Free e-mail for us, provided via a third party.  The emails are duncan-hall branded, so your e-mail address will be for example <username>@duncanhall.every1.net.  I don't make cash from this, I set it up mainly as a utility for old boys accessing the site via libraries and so on, so that they can receive e-mail from other members and get in touch with friends.  The login for this is on the Get In Touch area, at the bottom. 
 

Added chat section to the 'How To Get In Touch' area of the website.  The chat area is hosted on this website, but actually ran from another site, via a Java applet.  It will ask you for a User name and for a password.  You do not need to fill in the password area, as I didn't set the chat up with one.  You can usually find me in there at about 7pm (GMT), with the user name Cris.  Using the system is easy, just type what you want to say and hit Return.  It then appears on all user's computers immediately.

Contacted Yarmouth Mercury, to try and get awareness of this site to the majority of both local boys and their families.  We will have to see what sort of response we get however.  The journalist seemed very helpful.

I would like anyone who has an idea how to improve the site, or who wants to add an article to the website to get in touch with me.  I will place the articles on the web, or update once I get your stuff!  Send things to DHSSubmit@brm-international.co.uk.  This can be absolutely anything, you can even say something nice about the place if you want!

Feb 26th 2000

I have added a guest book feature to this site, so that you can scrawl your name across the site (like I know you used to scrawl across your desks in prep).  Just page down to add your name and comments, and you can then read the graffiti that others have left before you.  

In other update news, I will be contacting the Great Yarmouth Mercury, to get awareness of the old boys network up.  Any members of the old boys network who can think of other ways to raise awareness, please do so.  The more we find, the more worthwhile this venture is.

Other News.  I am updating the site gradually.  The rush to make a mark and get it there is over, now I have to make it easier to navigate and better to read.  Kumars has been very helpful with ideas and so forth, to make navigation easier.  (I suspect that too much exposure to star wars type technology has made him think the internet is a lot more powerful than it may be, however I am working on his ideas, I have 4 website's I am working on at the minute though, as well as trying to get many £££ investment for my GPS company AND a 3D hobby to feed, so things may take time.  Maybe a week anyway.)  

I am going to add new pictures and so forth to the site really soon.  What I would like is for old boys to send in Before / After photos, so that I can make a better 'Where are they now' section.  I am working on some graphics for the website, as well as some 3D mockups of the interior of the school and so on.  I am going to work on a 3D model of the school, so that I can make up 'walkthroughs' of the old place, however my memories of the place are from nearly 20 years ago when I was 10, so this may be tricky.  

In other news, there is not much happening at the moment.  Please get in touch with any news, and I will add it.  

Duncan Hall School, was closed in the mid 80's, and is now a private residence, however during the period that it was a school, it was home to over 1000 boys from all over the world.  Some liked the place, some hated it.  In this website, you will find pictures of the school from back then when it was home to us, and from now, it it's dilapidated state.  There are boys from all over the world that attended this school, all with input on how they felt and what they did there.

If you can be bothered (and if you can write, which if you attended Duncan Hall, is actually a valid point), why not take a moment to fill in the guest book slip.  I promise not to sell your details to the highest bidder, and make your lives a misery with constant advertisements for rude pictures, purchasable wives and so on (unless you want me to of course...)