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Essex / Re: Where is Sunborn, Essex?
« on: Saturday 03 March 18 07:30 GMT (UK)  »
Not sure if it is going to help or confuse the issue, but there is a Sunborn Festival in Essex;

https://en-gb.facebook.com/sunbornfestival/

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Essex / Re: Dovercourt Essex School?
« on: Monday 08 August 11 13:27 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Harwich on Sunday 07 August 11 09:43 BST (UK)
Quote from: Lorrie127 on Saturday 28 March 09 16:36 GMT (UK)
Can any one give me any information or point me in the right direction as to where to find any as to what school was located at Orwell Terrace, Dovercourt. One of my relatives was there in 1911.
Thanks
Lorrie


Hi I Was wondering if you found any more info re dovercourt convent, im trying to find picture and
stories from the convent for my web site on harwich & dovercourt
would be interested to hear from you

thanks
steve

Just found on another web site;

The Convent in Orwell Road
I was brought up in a Convent in Orwell Road between the years 1947 and 1954. The Convent was vacated in the summer of 1954 and moved to Hastings a year after the sea wall broke which demolished the old school in Harwich.
When I visited the convent again in 1980 it was still there, only standing derelict. I wondered if the building was still standing.

Ruth Wright

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Essex / Re: Michaelstowe Hall - Ramsey
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 16:14 BST (UK)  »
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Essex / Re: Michaelstowe Hall - Ramsey
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 15:44 BST (UK)  »
No sign of an email address in my 'messages' box?
Actually the only surname in your list that I am not personally familiar with  locally is the name Grant.
I drive through Ramsey a couple of times a week, so if you need any modern local photographs let me know.
I live a mile or so from Ramsey at Tollgate, although I was born in Little Oakley.
Sorry, I don't know the name of George's parents, I only remember him from Ramsey school, but he did live in Ramsey. There was also a (Ron?) Barfield who was a plumber with a local company, Gordon's I believe, he would probably be in his mid-eighties or probably more by now.

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Essex / Re: Dovercourt Essex School?
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 12:32 BST (UK)  »
In that case, I probably know one or both of your parents!
Orwell Terrace was built around 1847 by John Bagshaw, an East India Merchant, who had big ambitions for Dovercourt, just as well that he cannot see the condition of the town now!

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Essex / Re: Michaelstowe Hall - Ramsey
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 12:21 BST (UK)  »
The first recorded date for Michaelstowe Manor is 1379. In 1639 the Darvall family owned it. Michaelstowe Hall was re-built for Squire Garland in 1903, in 1920 it was sold to Richard Coombe Abdy.  During WW2 it was variously, a convalescent home, military camp, and officers club. In 1946 it became an approved school known as Chafford school. It is now a residential home for the elderly.
Barfield was a local name, I went to Ramsey school in the 1950's with a George Barfield who lived in Ramsey.
Nelson Cottage, I assume was/is close to The lord Nelson Public House?

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Essex / Re: Dovercourt Essex School?
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 11:54 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Necromancer on Saturday 28 March 09 17:02 GMT (UK)
just posting so I can follow this - have a similar query about Dovercourt school attended by 3 brothers from this very period !

There were several schools in Dovercourt and the surrounding area at this time, more than ten as a guess, if you can be more specific, I may be able to help.

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Essex / Re: Dovercourt Essex School?
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 11:51 BST (UK)  »
The convent alas is no more. It was the end building of Orwell Terrace, closest to the sea. About 5-6 years ago, possibly more, the foundations became unstable and the whole building fell down. Orwell Terrace still exists, mostly converted into flats, it's only the convent that collapsed.
What photographs in particular did you want? I could probably find one of the convent as it was originally.
I assume that you don't live in the area?

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Essex / Re: Dovercourt Essex School?
« on: Thursday 30 September 10 20:08 BST (UK)  »
There was a convent and small school at the top end of Orwell Terrace run by the sisters of the Convent of Mary Help for Christians.  The following from"Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston, Then and Now" by Phil Cowley may be of interest; "Over the years there have been several small schools in Orwell Terrace, including one run by Thomas Lermit (born in the East Indies) described as Clergyman and Master at Dedham School in the 1860's. He had seven scholars living in. By the turn of the century Rosa Bidwell ran a school from several of the houses."
In 1888 J.Whickham Towser had his Dovercourt High School for Boys at No. 9 Orwell Terrace.

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