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Saturday 19 September: 1100-1600 hours. Talk at 1300 Monty and Amesbury
Sunday 20 September: 1100-1600 hours. Talk at 1300 Monty and Amesbury

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Amesbury School will open to the public for the first time in over 120 years.

Self-tour the remarkable site, explore the history and beauty of the site, take tea, with a playground available.

The School was Field Marshall Montgomery’s secret rear HQ during World War II. His son, a pupil at the school during the war, was his initial reason to visit. Then Monty’s home in Portsmouth was bombed out. He was kindly offered rooms when he visited the school, one of which became a secret rear HQ known as ‘Lion Rear’. You can visit this room, the Summer House he loved and cricket pavilion. Take tea on the Head’s lawn and imbibe the history of the Grade II Lutyens Building, built in 1903. There are some artefacts available to view.

Read more about Monty and Amesbury here

The school is open 19 and 20 September 1100 – 1600, with a special talk at 1300 each day from local history, Chris Harrison. He produced the detailed research which made the connection between Monty’s presence at Amesbury and the planning of the D Day landings, leading to the award of a blue plaque in 2021. Monty wrote to the Head’s wife Phyllis in March 1948, ‘The fact that we had a home at Amesbury was the chief fact in enabling me to do what I did towards winning the war. If I had had worries about David (his son), I could hardly have won my battles’.

If exceptional demand, more talks will be added.

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Read more about Heritage Open Days here
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