Haileyburia

Mrs Talbot at Speech day 1926

Some time in the 1920s the boys in the Lawrence House Room entered the flower box competition. They bought lots of good sees and planted up their box. But the flowers did not grow. There was some concern since there was a prize involved and they wanted to win. Their Housemaster investigated and their mistake was recorded in his Random Recollections which I have mentioned before. The problem was not so inattention but undue excitement: each day they dug the poor plants up to see how the roots were doing, with disastrous results for the health of the flowers. The prize was offered by the Master's wife, Mrs Talbot. She was described as 'the perfect Master's wife' and had her own flower border in the Master's Garden which was renowned for its beauty. Haileybury is still a place of many flowers.

Flowers in Quad 2010