As I was saying before, a lot of the children, when they went to school for
the
first time, it, it was so traumatic, because their mothers and fathers
didn't
tell them that they were going. They just were packed this little suitcase
that
we had to have and, off we went to school and we were just left in this big
auditorium, which was really the theatre with the, the stage and everything
there, but we didn't know. And of course it was enormous that school. And,
we,
we had to sit there until we were called, and, then this very severe lady
came
and told us her name was Nurse Stamford and to follow her and she called out
our
surnames - because once we were at school we only had a surname - and, we
had to
follow her. And out of the...theatre, along a great long corridor, which
seemed
to be for miles, and we had to be in twos and not talk and then we'd turned
right, and then right again, and a really long corridor, until we came to
this
set of stairs, and we all had to stop. And Nurse Stamford was-- went halfway
up
the stairs and with her folded arms, she had a bun, very severe lady and she
said that we-- 'You are mine, what I say goes, doesn't matter what your
mother
said, what I say goes and, so you will follow me to your dormitory.' And
then
when we got to the dormitory she told us which bed we had to go in, and it
was
according to our birth date. And, and that's how we all knew where-- who's
was
the next birthday because we always knew it was the one next to us. And we
then
had to be stripped off and go in a bathroom, which had the most enormous
bath -
three children in a bath, six baths in there - and we were scrubbed from
head to
toe. You can imagine.