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Offline hazel.bevis

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The College, Ashford, Kent
« on: Sunday 17 December 06 16:04 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone have any information about The College, Ashford, Kent c. 1930?

Thank you.

Elaine
Slingsby- Ashford, Kent
Bevis - Hastings, Sussex
Avery - Hastings, Sussex
Harding - Hampshire, Surrey
Breakspear - Oxfordshire
Rigden - Whitstable, Kent
French - Hastings and Rye, Sussex
Bond - Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Butcher - Whitstable, Kent
Kemp - Whitstable, Kent
Josey - Berkshire
Marshall - Ashford, Kent
Papps - Berkshire

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Re: The College, Ashford, Kent
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 17:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi Elaine

Could it be the Wye College, Ashford, Kent which is an Agriculteral College which I believe is located on outshirts of Ashford.

Regards Linda
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Re: The College, Ashford, Kent
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 17:49 GMT (UK) »
Hi Linda

No, I don't think that it is Wye Agricultural College. It could possibly be a private school. I believe that it was in the centre of Ashford.

Thanks for your reply.

Elaine
Slingsby- Ashford, Kent
Bevis - Hastings, Sussex
Avery - Hastings, Sussex
Harding - Hampshire, Surrey
Breakspear - Oxfordshire
Rigden - Whitstable, Kent
French - Hastings and Rye, Sussex
Bond - Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Butcher - Whitstable, Kent
Kemp - Whitstable, Kent
Josey - Berkshire
Marshall - Ashford, Kent
Papps - Berkshire

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Re: The College, Ashford, Kent
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 18:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi Elaine

Have you got any other clues at all ie. who went there/how old they were .................. anything at all?

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Re: The College, Ashford, Kent
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 19:11 GMT (UK) »
Hello

The only information that I have is that this was given as my Great-grandfather's address on my Grandmother's wedding certificate. My great grandfather was Frederick Harding and was an army bandsman in the Devonshire Regiment until he retired from the army. His occupation on the certificate is Gentleman's Service. I am assuming that this was at The College, Ashford.

Thanks for your response.

Elaine  ::)
Slingsby- Ashford, Kent
Bevis - Hastings, Sussex
Avery - Hastings, Sussex
Harding - Hampshire, Surrey
Breakspear - Oxfordshire
Rigden - Whitstable, Kent
French - Hastings and Rye, Sussex
Bond - Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Butcher - Whitstable, Kent
Kemp - Whitstable, Kent
Josey - Berkshire
Marshall - Ashford, Kent
Papps - Berkshire

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Re: The College, Ashford, Kent
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 19:43 GMT (UK) »
Wye, Old College
Located just 60 miles east of London ( 7 miles from Ashford and 12 from Canterbury)in the North Downs 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty', Wye's Old College was originally founded in 1447 by Cardinal John Kempe, a son of Wye, as a College for the training of secular priests.

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Re: The College, Ashford, Kent
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 19:50 GMT (UK) »
I am fairly sure that The College, Ashford is not the college at Wye.

Are there any local people out there with memories of Ashford in the late 1920s/early 1930s?

Thanks.

Elaine
Slingsby- Ashford, Kent
Bevis - Hastings, Sussex
Avery - Hastings, Sussex
Harding - Hampshire, Surrey
Breakspear - Oxfordshire
Rigden - Whitstable, Kent
French - Hastings and Rye, Sussex
Bond - Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Butcher - Whitstable, Kent
Kemp - Whitstable, Kent
Josey - Berkshire
Marshall - Ashford, Kent
Papps - Berkshire

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Re: The College, Ashford, Kent
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 21:45 GMT (UK) »
Elaine, does the marriage certificate specify that your grandmother's father was "of the college" or would it be the address where your grandmother was living at the time ie. not necessarily that of her father as is the norm on marriage certificates?  Is there an occupation for your grandmother?

There is a 1934 directory on the following site which you could look through

http://www.hereshistorykent.org.uk/

Could it be this?

http://www.rootschat.com/links/011j/

Search for (freetext) college in (town) Ashford for a picture

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

Casalguidi
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Re: The College, Ashford, Kent
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 23:29 GMT (UK) »
Hello Casalguidi

This is the address that my grandmother married from and I believe that she was living in the family residence at that time. She did not work until after WWII. As my great-grandfather's occupation is stated as in 'Gentleman's Service' I assumed that he worked at 'The College'.

Thank you for the interesting links that I will follow up tomorrow.

Elaine :-\
Slingsby- Ashford, Kent
Bevis - Hastings, Sussex
Avery - Hastings, Sussex
Harding - Hampshire, Surrey
Breakspear - Oxfordshire
Rigden - Whitstable, Kent
French - Hastings and Rye, Sussex
Bond - Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Butcher - Whitstable, Kent
Kemp - Whitstable, Kent
Josey - Berkshire
Marshall - Ashford, Kent
Papps - Berkshire