Château Blanc; a large Italianate house in South Hayling originally belonging to the Sandeman family, was then called Westfield House It was later known as Grand Hotel, St Patrick’s Convent, St Francis Desales and the Choir school of our Lady and St John.
The building was largely demolished in 1993; a small remaining portion has been made into a rest home for elderly people, and a modern housing estate has been built in what were once the grounds.
Please contact us with any recollections of the school; especially, if you recognise any family member in the prhotograph.
Peter May of Haying Island who sent the photograph to us has an interst in local history and would be pleased to hear from anyone with other such memories.
By
Ralph Cousins