There’s a new book in production and the author would like to hear from anyone with reminiscences of the time which could go in it.
John Walmsley is a documentary photographer and was an Artist in Residence at the WHEC for 3 weeks in 1979. He photographed the school and the neighbourhood as well as working with the kids. The photos can be seen on his website:
Please email John on:
with your recollections of what it was like (good or bad), how it compared to where you had lived previously, the housing, the ‘Venchie’ or anything else at all. I would like the thoughts of the locals to complement the photos in the book.