NUDE bathing and students who sparked up and smoked cigarettes were among the reasons a school near West Hoathly was the victim of a smear campaign more than 50 years ago.Dubbed locally as "the school for scandal", Kingsmuir was founded in 1950 by Lucy Francis, a pioneer in modern "progressive" teaching methods.Housed at Stonelands, one of the homes of local benefactor John Godwin King, the school was deemed "quite satisfactory" and "eminently suitable" by...
