Recalling Fairfield School and Gartlet School in Watford

In the last 150 or so years, there were many private schools in Watford. One such school, in a detached property in Loates Lane, was Fairfield House Girls’ Collegiate School.

The house was of a modest size, surrounded by well-maintained gardens, with a lawn tennis court and bowling lawn. The ‘sanitary conditions’ of the building were claimed to be ‘most perfect’ and the ‘natural salubrity of the locality particularly healthy’.The curriculum included English, French, German, Latin, Italian, painting and drawing, botany, zoology, music, dancing, drill and elocution. Standard fees included English, French and Latin. Other subjects attracted additional fees.

By the outbreak of World War One, sisters Bertha and Jessie Goadby BA, alongside whom Lucy Sell had been Joint Principal, continued in their roles at Gartlet, which by then had a kindergarten and additional preparatory classes for girls and boys.

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