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Tuesday 2nd February, 2010
Blacklands School, later Mill Stream School
31 YEARS LATER, SCHOOL PUPIL, NOW A LICENSED CONVEYANCER, IS WORKING ON CONVEYANCING OF NEW HOMES ON PLOT WHERE BLACKLANDS SCHOOL ONCE STOOD IN EAST MALLING
PRESS – We also have photos of Michelle Perkins nee Longhurst in her childhood, when she was a pupil at the school.
It is over 30 years since Michelle Perkins, nee Longhurst, attended what was Blacklands School, later to be known as Mill Stream Junior School, in Mill Street, East Malling in Kent. Michelle recalls the years between 1974 and 1979 as happy times when she attended both the lower and upper schools and lessons included basket weaving, playing a Recorder and writing essays based on films shown in the school.
Michelle is now a licensed conveyancer working at ASB Law based in Maidstone where she has worked for 13 years and interestingly she will be working shortly on the conveyancing of 23 new homes which are now being constructed by developers Hillreed Homes, on the site of the old school.
“It seems quite strange that the school has now been demolished and a new development of homes is to utilise the land”, says Michelle “but it is in a prime location in the centre of the village and within easy walking distance of the local shops and bus services”.
Reminiscing, Michelle recalls her favourite teachers, Mr Rabjohn and Miss Adds and also of a different scholastic world of Recorder recitals at local venues, school fetes and sunny sports days, school plays and the constant smell of boiled cabbage from the kitchens and of drinking a half pint of free milk provided daily, where pupils used to punch a straw hole through the silver tops to reach the often somewhat warm drink within.
In recent months, through Friends Re-United, Michelle has caught up with some old school friends so her affiliation with the site is quite marked.
Hillreed Homes is now building 23, two, three and four bedroom homes all in traditional style but with the convenience of modern day living.
The development known as, The Schoolyard, will benefit from a brand new “square”, public open space, private drives and some brand new and exciting house types such as the Gatehouse which will be an imposing, four bedroom, semi detached house”.
Concluded Michelle, “I was at the school from the age of 7years to 11 years, so it is quite amazing that after all these years I should find myself the legal conveyancer on behalf of Hillreed Homes, for all the new homes being built there.”
Hillreed Homes www.hillreed.co.uk Maidstone Head office 01622 691561
ASB Law www.asb-law.com Maidstone office 01622 656500
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