The events of 1990 to 1992 are a perfect example of life's combination of tragedy and joy! There was for those who had worked and lived at WHS the tragedy of its closure, but for IHS (along naturally with a tinge of sadness at leaving their long-established home in Westerfield Road, Ipswich) there was the joy of moving to a wonderful new location. It must have been for all those connected with IHS a period of mixed emotions, but above all one of tremendous excitement and anticipation.

Here are three pages taken from the IHS Yearbook of 1992, which contains both a fascinating history of IHS from its foundation to the opening of the first term at Woolverstone Hall on Wednesday, September 9th, 1992.

As for the previous occupants, the sense of loss was hugely tempered by the knowledge that a great long-term friend of WHS was taking the place over, which would mean a certain continuity and feeling of still somehow belonging for anyone revisiting the school of their youth. Thank Goodness it did not become a health centre, hotel, remand home or snapped up by a Russian oligarch!