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An except from https://erenow.net/biographies/twiggy-high-stakes-life-of-andrew-forrest/4.php on Twiggy in case I misrepresented it.

Forrest arrived at Christ Church, in Perth’s old-money suburb of Claremont, in 1970 as an eight-year-old with a severe stutter that badly dented his self-confidence. “I always had the stutter, I grew up with it,” he later recalled.

In fact, Forrest had inherited the disorder from his father Don. “I’m amazed he speaks so well now [because] he used to stammer at school and at home,” Don Forrest said in 2007. “I was a stammerer and Andrew took it up.”

Forrest was placed in Walters boarding house, which fellow students of the era remember as a Dickensian place. There were ten to fourteen beds to a room, the mattresses were thin, the food was terrible and the spartan dormitories were icy-cold in winter. The bathrooms in the boarding house consisted of several showers in a row, with no partitions and a highly unreliable supply of hot water.

By the late 1970s some effort was being made to redress these privations. The school yearbook of 1977 – when Forrest was in Year 11 – records that the boarders’ common room had just been fitted with “carpet, curtains, heating and colourful posters, which all helped to make the room much more pleasant”.

Christ Church may have been expensive and prestigious, but clearly the boarders were not living in luxury. Forrest’s boarding master at Walters house, Tony London, was a key figure among the staff at the school. He recalls that bullying was rife when he took over the boarding house, likening the environment to the savagery in William Golding’s classic Lord of the Flies. Younger pupils, he says, were forced to be subservient to the senior boys, mainly the Year 12s, who had the power to decide how much the smaller boys could eat and to dish out tasks and punishment as they saw fit.

Along with other senior staff, London introduced key reforms during Forrest’s time at Walters, including a smorgasbord which prevented the Year 12s from controlling the food.