Lady Mabel Hall School, Ecclesfield

[angieB 10]

I remember Lady Mabel Hall my sister Margaret Bee sang there for the grammar school Elizabeth Gale another brilliant singer became very well known, and I think I rember Nigel W from Ecclesfield

[sarahjanesut 10]

hi everyone

you are all getting the story wrong about lady mabel. i go to ecclesfield school now and i will tell you the story.

well what happened was lady mabel was doing a play of romeo and Juliette

and when she came to performing you know at the end she stabs herself well it came to that part and someone had swapped the fake knife for a real one so that she would actually kill herself and the production was in the staff room at our school and the lady Mabel hall is just named after her to remember the death of someone who was loved at our school. If you go to the school grounds and go to lady Mabel hall then you will see a plate on the wall in remembrance off her so there you go theres the story !

 

from Sarah Sutton Aged: 14

student of Ecclesfield School

[Paul Iverson 0]

Thanks to Nigel who has given the only sensible contribution to this subject. The rest can be ignored .

[Paul Iverson 0]

Thanks to AngieB. Elizabeth Gale was in my class and we were very close friends as she was a superb singer and me a modest pianist ! The head at the time was Mr Jennings who as a good intellectual socialist was a great opera fan and supporter of Elizabeth. Just another example of the appeal of EGS. She was no brainbox, so what ?

[REDMANTW 10]

Elizabeth Gale went on to sing for English National Opera I’m sure.  I remember going to see the school production of Carmen when she played the lead. My sister also sang in that production which was very good.

[REDMANTW 10]

On 11/03/2006 at 15:22, CHAIRBOY said:

I think Lady Mabel college was at Wentworth Woodhouse.

 

http://www.wentworthvillage.net/house.shtml

Lady Mabel College was in Wentworth near Rotherham in the grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse.  It was a college for females who studied Physical Training. i.e. went on to teach PT.