Photograph of Mrs Coleman & pupils of Hook School, 1958/9

Mrs Coleman, a popular head for over twenty years, had been appointed following an interview with Lord Bolingbroke and his mother, Lady Bolingbroke. Local resident, Malcolm Titcombe, recalls her Mrs Coleman telling him years later that when she went to sit down Lady Bolingbroke remarked, " Oh don't sit there, it will collapse!

It is perhaps worth noting that when Lydiard Park furniture was auctioned off during World War II, a proportion of it was so rotten it was sold as firewood.

Many of her pupils remember how Mrs Coleman suffered with arthritis in her later years but that she was still able to write at speed.