The ‘bungalow’ school at Harrington Road celebrates five decades of teaching and learning

A look at Sherwood Hall’s journey in the eyes of its neighbours

“My father, Ismail Namazi, owned the bungalow where Sherwood Hall originally was. That was before it was bought over by Olga Frohlich who sowed the seeds for the school in the early 1970s,” says Fazileh Nemazie, who lives in an independent house at the end of 13th Avenue in Harrington Road.

For a very long time, the Namazi family were the owners of houses on one side of the road before they were sold to different people. The ancestors of the family, who ran the famous watch company Gani&Sons, bought plots in the area in the 1940s.

“In the bungalow, Olga used the upstairs as her residence and the downstairs as a pre-school,” says Fazileh, a former school teacher.