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Copthorne Today

The site of Copthorne School is now occupied by modern housing and Copthorne Lodge, a residential home for the elderly. Much of what was open space when the school existed still remains open space - the site is only marginally more built up than it was when the school existed.

The quality of the first four photographs are not as good as I would like. If you can supply better please send them to:- buttlekeswick@hotmail.com - or post them to the address on the site's Contact Page.

The grassed area in this photograph is the site of the girls' playground. The building that can be seen is an elderly people's home (Copthorne Lodge) sited mostly, I judge, over what use to be the school's forecourt area with part of it over-lapping the site of the headmaster's office.

Here I've moved closer up to the fence seen in the photograph above. The fence parallels the line of classrooms 6 to 10. I judge the classrooms would have stood a yard or two behind the fence. The bench seen beyond the fence is situated on what was the lawn that use to exist between classrooms 1 to 5 and classrooms 6 to 10. The small trees to the left of the bench seem to be growing where the school hall once stood.

The one feature of the site which was there when the school existed is this electricity sub-station which actually pre-dates the school

This road - Brownshill Court - appears to run through the line of the hostel block which was part of the school.

The aerial shots below show how the Copthorne site looks today compared to how it looked in 1969 - the more modern shot is captured from Google Maps UK . A larger image of each photograph can be obtained by clicking on to it. N.B. today's Copthorne Road is slightly longer - the houses now lining the northern end of the road were not there when the school existed.

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