Carmel College was a boarding school primarily for Jewish students. It became the most expensive boarding school in the UK until it's closure in 1997.
Oxfordshire, UK Abandoned History of the abandoned Carmel College
Carmel College was a boarding school in Oxfordshire with predominantly Jewish pupils. The school opened in 1948 as Europe’s only Jewish boarding school. For this reason the school had a substantial number of foreign students. The school was often referred to as the “Jewish Eton” and Carmel College alumni were often called “Old Carmelis”.
The school practised a mainstream orthodox Judaism – this was usually more orthodox than the practice of the pupils families, with the aim of turning out Anglo-Jews who were authentically both English and Jewish.
The school became the most expensive boarding school in the UK, with typical fees of £30,000 per year in 1996. Pupils were required to sit entry exams and the selection process was competitive.
The school was heavily affected by the Labour governments decision to terminate government assisted placements and ran into financial difficulties. This combined with diminishing attendance caused the school to close in 1997.
I think u got the pictures mixed up….
I’ve been to carmel collage and this isn’t it….
These images are definitly Carmel College in Oxfordshire, England. Maybe you went to a different one?
Behind Closed Doors – this is where I went to school from 1993 until it closed. When I look at these pictures I can actually smell the library.. brings back memories. Thank you for sharing.
It is Carmel college. I went there. Brings back so many memories.
The photos above are the “Main Building” some of it the Library. The staircase came down to the Library and we weren’t allowed to use the staircase (and sometimes we did!). I think one of the rooms with a fireplace was the Head Master’s Study, The other perhaps the small reading room off the library with easy chairs where I spent a fair amount of Shabbat afternoons in 1964 to 1969 reading. Got thrown out of the library one shabbat afternoon by Mr Stamler who was not amused by us playing tiddley winks. Never discovered if the objection was because it was shabbat or because it was the library.
The entrance is certainly carmel college, It has the honors board on which I can read my name clearly 2 times for 2 awards.
I worked in the library in 1966 with Malcolm Shiffrin, librarian. My former husband, David Slater was art master from 1965 to 1967. Seeing these photographs brings back so many memories. Upon arriving from the United States our first night was spent in one of the rooms on the 2nd floor of this building. It was just prior to the start of the falll semester. David Stamler was headmaster.