Sizewell Hall

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Sizewell Hall is a Christian conference centre in Sizewell on the Suffolk coast, England. It is owned by the Ogilvie family[1].

Sizewell Hall, 2005
Sizewell Hall, 2005

The Hall is currently a Christian conference centre run by Sizewell Hall Ltd, a Registered Charity[2]. In 2007 6500 visitors came to stay at the Hall. These groups consist of local church groups from East Anglia, national organisations and a local youth organisation CYM from Ipswich. CYM has developed an activity holiday for school children in the African Village[3] in the Hall grounds.

The Ogilvie family purchased the property in 1859 and expanded the estate to more than 6,000 acres, and extended the house. From this house, not far from RSPB Minsmere, Fergus Mentieth Ogilvie (1861-1918) formed the very large Collection of British Birds which, in a celebrated partnership with the taxidermist Thomas Gunn of Norwich, were mounted in cases with unusually beautiful simulated habitats: the collection (now in Ipswich Museum) is considered the best of its kind in Great Britain.[4] The Hall was rebuilt after a fire in 1920. Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie developed nearby Thorpeness. The Ogilvie family moved out when the army commandeered the hall in World War II.

After the War, it became a private school run by Harry Tuyn. One of his famous students was Sheridan Morley. The school closed in the late 1950s. The school was a progressive, co-educational establishment where pupils could study what they liked, if they liked. Subjects such as Geography, Maths and Latin were not taught at all on the ground that they were too boring. [5].

In the 1960s the Hall was the headquarters for Taylor Woodrow as they were constructing Sizewell A nuclear power Station[6].

Sizewell Hall was used as a location for the television adaptation of The Lost Prince[7] and for Lovejoy.

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  1. ^ Burke's Peerage - Preview Family Record
  2. ^ Extract from the Central Register of Charities maintained by the Charity Commission for England and Wales
  3. ^ CYM - African Adventure
  4. ^ See Foreword by Howard Mendel (Natural History Museum) in C. Frost, The Ogilvie Bird Collection, An Illustrated Guide (120pp., Long Melford 1989), p. 7. (ISBN 0-9512263-2-0): cf also G. Maynard, Guide to the Ogilvie Collection of British Birds (104 pp., Ipswich Corporation Museum, Ipswich 1938), 3-5.
  5. ^ Sheridan Morley - Telegraph
  6. ^ Noumena, Cognita and Dreams
  7. ^ Masterpiece Theatre | The Lost Prince | Production Notes | Locations