Diana Allen (Pope)

After leaving Claremont School in 1962, Diana was PA to the Chairman of Heinemann Educational Books. Eight years later she became Headmistress of Fan Court Junior School and thereafter, Headmistress of the present Pre-Prep and Nursery in 1978. Diana’s tales include her bus journey to school in pea souper fogs, the 1976 heatwave to designing the current Pre-Prep and Nursery building: