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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: erica236 on Friday 05 April 24 14:49 BST (UK)
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On the 1921 register, 79 Hornby Road, Blackpool, I have found an ancestor, (Jesse Hardacre, born 1897, Keighley), teaching at the Mc Stinson Private School, Blackpool. The name of the school may have been mis-transcribed but I can't find any school with this or similar name in Blackpool in the 1920s. He was a musician, so presumably taught music! Can anyone help find where this school might have been? I did wonder if it was the now Rossall Boarding School but the history is not conclusive.
Thank you for looking.
Erica
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The address for the school appears to be St Annes on Sea = Lytham St Annes.
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It’s Kilgrimol (!) School. (The 1921 entry clearly says this, once you know what it says.)
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There are lots of adverts in the Blackpool Gazette and Herald for a first class day and boarding school for boys, principals Arthur Anderson and C Bertram Stinson. It also mentions that it is on the South Shore. (Don't have a sub, so can't see full advert)
Added: address in 1915 is The High School, Alexandra Road, South Shore, Blackpool
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Indeed. Charles Bertram Stinson
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC%2F1921%2FRG15%2F20725%2F0643&parentid=GBC%2F1921%2FRG15%2F20725%2F0643%2F01
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Is that 44 South Drive?
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Picture of the School and a bit of history: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Lytham_St_Annes_The_Postcard_Collection/Hst5DAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=kilgrimol+lytham+st+annes&pg=PT124&printsec=frontcover
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More on the school: https://amounderness.co.uk/kilgrimol_school_for_boys.html
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Thank you all so much for this. Unfortunately I only splashed out on a FindMyPast transcription - I might have done better to pay the extra pound and viewed the image! They are an unusual family - Jesse's father was an occult scientist! So I now have a more complete picture of their lives.
Many thanks,
Erica.
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Based on the information at the site linked to in reply #7, here it is on streetview:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bh8WVyQWsRKifbRs9?g_st=ic (https://maps.app.goo.gl/bh8WVyQWsRKifbRs9?g_st=ic)
and here on a large scale OS map from 1911, the hammer-shaped building on the corner of Hornby Road.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/126517346#zoom=7&lat=5456&lon=4644&layers=BT (https://maps.nls.uk/view/126517346#zoom=7&lat=5456&lon=4644&layers=BT)