 The school closed at Yelverton, and Mr Bailey left to teach temporarily at the Junior School section of Monkton Combe School from 1942 to 1944.In 1945, with his wife Mary, H. F. Bailey re-established his own school, at Beckington Castle in the village of Beckington, Somerset.This had previously been the home of Captain John Hamilton, Coldstream Guards, later 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, and it was the birthplace of his second son the politician Archie Hamilton, Baron Hamilton of Epsom.