slash1 northampton All posts by this member | 1 of 14 Tue 2nd May 2017 11:18pm Member: Joined Apr 2011 Total posts:153 Have travelled up Holyhead Road a few times recently.
I notice on a corner a hotel, not sure how long it has been there.
Does anyone else remember when it was a college?
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 2 of 14 Wed 3rd May 2017 7:37am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5157 Hi! Can you be a bit more specific regarding the exact location? |
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slash1 northampton All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 14 Wed 3rd May 2017 5:28pm Member: Joined Apr 2011 Total posts:153 Near Barras Lane. |
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 4 of 14 Wed 3rd May 2017 6:40pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1782 I think you must mean the Days Hotel on the corner of Barras Lane. I am sure that was a hotel in the 50's. I went to my dad's works Christmas party there and saw Harry Corbett and Sooty! It was just the old building then, the extension being added later but they may have demolished some of the old building. I am sure someone else may know. |
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Heathite Coventry All posts by this member | 5 of 14 Wed 3rd May 2017 7:00pm Member: Joined Aug 2012 Total posts:699 It was the Aston Hotel for many years. I'm sure many others could confirm. |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 6 of 14 Wed 3rd May 2017 7:22pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5157 Also Godiva Hotel. It was mentioned elsewhere, but only as a hotel - no mention of a "previous life" ![]() |
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woodford coventry All posts by this member | 7 of 14 Wed 3rd May 2017 9:11pm Member: Joined Feb 2013 Total posts:128 On 3rd May 2017 6:40pm, Annewiggy said:
I think you must mean the Days Hotel on the corner of Barras Lane. I am sure that was a hotel in the 50's. I went to my dad's works Christmas party there and saw Harry Corbett and Sooty! It was just the old building then, the extension being added later but they may have demolished some of the old building. I am sure someone else may know.
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PeterB Mount Nod All posts by this member | 8 of 14 Thu 4th May 2017 12:33am Member: Joined May 2014 Total posts:301 I don't know if this is related, but old ordnance survey maps show a "College House" at 64 Holyhead Road (on the site of St Osburg's School) from the earliest 1888 map to 1914. In 1937 it is shown as "Club" and post war it is shown as the BTH (British Thomson-Houston) Social Club until it was demolished in the late 1950s/1960's to make way for the school.
Regards,
Peter.
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 9 of 14 Thu 4th May 2017 8:16am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5157 It's a coincidence if it is, as 64 Holyhead Road is currently being discussed here on the "Working Men's, Sports and Social clubs" thread ![]() |
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 10 of 14 Thu 4th May 2017 1:01pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1782 From my wonderful book "Coventry up to date 1896". College House was "ladies Collegiate School". The principal was Mrs J W Newsome.
"The house occupies an excellent position in Holyhead Road, and is enclosed in its own spacious grounds on one of the healthiest sites in the district. It was a day and boarding school . The course of study embraces religious instruction, reading and elocution. English language and grammar. English history and literature, geography and map drawing, arithmatic and mathematics, writing and composition, book keeping, French, hygiene, geology, botany, political economy, drawing, music - theory and practice, harmony and class singing - Swedish and musical drill, shorthand and physiography. There was also gymnastics, drill, calisthenics, dancing, swimming etc. There were also extras including German and Latin. The salubrious situation of the establishment renders it peculiarly suitable for Indian and Colonial Children who will find a happy and comfortable home."
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 11 of 14 Thu 4th May 2017 2:11pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:3632 Hi & thank you Anne, ![]() |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 12 of 14 Thu 4th May 2017 3:15pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:2882 Some will shoot me for saying this but it's a great pity college education is not the same today! A brilliant post from Anne. |
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 13 of 14 Thu 4th May 2017 3:53pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1782 Thank you. I think this book was best ever buy at £3.99 the information and illustrations are brilliant.
I would think that Mrs Newsome was quite forward thinking at the time as well, when "Ladies" education was probably not so common |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 14 of 14 Thu 4th May 2017 4:05pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5157 She was Ellen Ratcliff Newsome (nee McWatt) who died in 1900 aged 70. She married John William Newsome in 1862 - he died in 1901 aged 65 (his address is given as 35 The Crescent, Holyhead Road)
J W Newsome was a tobacconist, and he and Ellen lived at 2 Fleet Street (1871/1881 censuses) - she is listed as "Ladies School" and "School Mistress"
The 1901 census shows a number of assistant teachers and pupils at "College House" - the Newsomes had by then passed away
Their son, Frank William Newsome, followed his father's profession, and in 1901 lived at 32 Holyhead Road - in Spennells Directory 1912-13, he lives at 32 The Crescent, Holyhead Road, which is listed as "Crescent Art School"
Spennells confirms "College House" as 64 Holyhead Road, by then the residence of Walter Turrall, who was a Textile Manufacturer (1911 census) |
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