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cire
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Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« on: Friday 20 June 08 16:52 BST (UK) »
I am looking for information on the Shaftesbury Home in Bisley, in the period from about 1905 to 1918. I know there were 2 Shaftesbury establishments there at a later date but I don't know what the situation was earlier. I would think that the person I am researching would have been at the secondary school if that existed at that time as he later became a schoolmaster and headmaster.
I thought he was there because he was an orphan but I'm not sure about that. His family were living in the Guiness Building in Bermondsey in 1901, but he was born just after the census was taken.

Are there any records of the children there at that time and where might I find them?

Thanks
Eric
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #1 on: Friday 20 June 08 16:55 BST (UK) »
Hi

Have you tried contacting the Surrey History Centre?  http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/surreyhistoryservice/

Rosie
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #2 on: Friday 20 June 08 17:14 BST (UK) »
Hi Rosie
Thanks for your reply. I didn't get anything from the "search" but I have sent them an e-mail.

Eric
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #3 on: Friday 20 June 08 17:16 BST (UK) »
Hi Eric

Fingers crossed - I hope they are able to help.

Rosie
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 23 September 08 19:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Eric
I am also looking for information on someone who I believe was an in the same home during the same period, and just wondered if you had any success with your search?
Regards
Debbie
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 24 September 08 17:10 BST (UK) »
Hi Debbie
I sent an e-mail to the Shaftesbury Homes but got no reply. I don't know if it was the right part of the organisation. The Surrey History Centre gave me an address

The Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa
The Chapel
Royal Victoria Patriotic Building
Trinity Road
London

SW18 3SX

but I haven't written to them yet.
Someone suggested that their records had been destroyed in a fire in the 1950s.
Eric
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 05 October 08 13:55 BST (UK) »
Hi Eric,

I was a pupil athe Bisley boys school frfom 1936-1941 and have a lot of memeories of my time there and
see that you are interested in a period around 1918 obviously before my time but in my searches I have come across quite a lot of information on the web which might interst you ie.1891 census at the school   
               
                  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engsurry/bisley/ss-1891.pdf.

There is another one that I will search as it gave details of a period about 1920 where there was obviously an epidemic and quite a few died in a very short space of time and I will try and recover it and forward.

The headmaster of my period was a Bertram L.Read which might be the one that you are looking for and I probably have a picture of him taken at on eof the Empire Day celabrations in 1937/1938 so feel ffree to contact me further if you are interested.

Regards John
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 10 March 09 20:25 GMT (UK) »
My dad. Norman Wells was at Bisley at the same time as you and he has asked me to find out what I can so ...... what can you tell me to pass on to him?
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 10 March 09 20:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi Lesley
The person I was looking for was at the school during the First World War. I did in the end find a contact at the Shaftesbury Homes organisation, but all she could tell me is that their records were destroyed in a fire in the records building in the 1950s. I had already heard that from someone else searching for information, so I'm afraid there doesn't seem to be much chance of finding much else.
The photo came over well!

Eric
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 10 March 09 22:10 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: lesleyblahblah on Tuesday 10 March 09 20:25 GMT (UK)
My dad. Norman Wells was at Bisley at the same time as you and he has asked me to find out what I can so ...... what can you tell me to pass on to him?

Please refer to previous reply as i am now enclosing the pic

Regards John
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Re: Shaftesbury Home Bisley
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 22 April 09 11:02 BST (UK) »
I was at  Bisley Boys School in the middle fifties 53 - 56. Are the School building still there??
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