A candle of remembrance.

 

Chartfield Secondary Special School London

(Closed 2005)

Whatever happened to those who left in 1985, Chartfield Secondary special school.

If you went to Chartfield secondary special school, London U.K. 1980-1985

It is always my intention on this blog to foster peace, reconciliation and closure and my goal was even if just one other from that five year period in secondary got in touch I would have achieved that goal.

It is my deepest wish and humble desire that a small handful of the many I spent five years with at Chartfield secondary may wish also to be in touch, not so much to create a class reunion but to chat on the phone, over coffee, share memories good and not so good and to show them my humble collection of photos I have from those times.

Part of me wants to realise and accept the cold hard truth that based on statistics of the time, those being those leaving mainstream secondary schools and secondary special schools like Chartfield in 1985, our life chances weren’t expected to be great, lower prospects for qualifications, employment, health, relationships, I know there’s always the few, the minority, that may well have bucked those trends and even now survived into their 50’s.

There’s the part of me that will always try to find hope in everything, to seek in a humble way those who I remember sharing those five years with in Chartfield secondary.

A hope that with the passing of these nearly forty years grows dimmer but never dying totally my own humble flame of remembrance.

I remember so much in those five years, the good and the not so good moments and how despite everything that happened some of us from that time must be still alive, must have made it through these last nearly forty years.

I humbly appreciate not everyone will want to be in touch, our lives after Chartfield secondary in those five years may well be years that are best left in the past, some may say what good can come of being in touch with my past life, I was a different person back then I’m a different person now with no desire to revisit those years.

All very true, maybe some have bad memories, again very true and maybe all this humble wish of mine to seek peace, reconciliation and closure with others I spent five years with at Chartfield secondary is nothing but a humble wish I should now put away forever.

To those of you from those five years at Chartfield secondary special school London  1980-1985, who may be reading this, in a humble way I wish for no more than this document to reach out to you and ask yourselves I may not be the only one who feels this way.

Whatever memories you may have of that time, good or bad, ask yourself, is it not now time we all sought that peace, reconciliation and closure.

If these words resonate with you like they do with me, then let those of us, from Chartfield secondary special school London, 1980-1985, humbly seek each other again and make this document I have written help those of us make that flame of hope glow brighter so it may guide us to a reunion, in whatever form that reunion may be and humbly never give up hope of one day meeting again.

I’ve chosen a video that reflects how I’am feeling, Freddy Mercury’s, the days of our lives, those words Freddy says near the end ‘I still love you’ was Freddy’s way of saying despite every thing that may have happened between us, I forgive you.