Ashford residental home . middlesex

[molund]

Was Ashford assiciated with the Catholic Church?

Great-grandmother had 14 children with 2 different husbands.  The children from the first marriage were Catholic, and at least 4 of them (including my grandfather) went to St Vincent's Mill Hill, after their father died in 1914.

In the second marriage, I'm not sure if they were Catholic.  After my great grandmother died in 1926, four of her children from the second marriage were sent to Ashford. 

- William -------- (b. 1922)
- Jane Catherine ------- (b 1924)
- Walter ------- (b. 1926)
- Arthur ------- (b.1926)

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They were admitted in on October 30, 1926.  Arthur died shortly after.  We have traced William and Jane, but have no idea what happened to Walter.

[Argyll]

I entered the school in 1929 when I was just 2 years old and I was there until I was evacuated to Maidenhead in 1939. I remember Mr Wright (English), and the first Headmaster I recall was Mr Tregonning (unsure of the spelling). Every Summer we enjoyed a holiday in either Dymchurch (for the under 11's) or Wallton on the Naze. I lost touch with my friends Bill ------ (who I shared a dorm with), Gerald -------, and Bernard ------- so if anyone knows anything of them, or indeed anyone who was at the school at this time, I would be pleased to hear from you. 

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[frederickay]

Hi argyll, you would have been in Ashford the same time as my father James aka jimmy and his three sisters doll, Winnie and olive Wharton . dad would have been in there late 1927 at age three and stayed until he went out at 16 .
do you recognize any of these names . am i right in looking for the address of ashford residential home near Woking in old middlesex. dad told me nothing .
thanks
Jan

[gnashers]

I have been trying to trace inmates from Ashford Residential School for years and came across The Rootschat by accident.
I can't help the originator of this enquiry but can confirm that I was there, along with my younger brother from 47 to late 49
(5o in his case)
Yes it was situated at the bottom of Woodthorpe road on a bend. It was, as has been commented, very Dickensian (Victorian). In my day it was a school for children with problems, of all sorts, at home.
I remember a few names 'Quigley' who I had a fight with,
Cedric ------- and his brother. George -----------. About 6 of us won a scholarship and travelled to a Central School in Southfields (a journey of well over an hour in each direction but that's another story. We used to go to Saturday morning pictures in Staines. one or two of us would pay 6old pence to go in, then charge 3old pence as we held the fire exit open for the rest! We had two (typically ex Army types) in charge 'Wally' Hammond and a Mr Walton. Although the discipline was tough (I had to stand facing a wall with my arms stretched out for about two hours just for scrumping) I found them both to be decent men and fair.

Does anyone remember 'The Tunnel' ? well it was a ditch that ran under the railway we used it often as a short cut to go to Staines or to escape if confined to quarters.

I was eventually stretchered out via 'The infimary' with suspected scarlet fever, which, as it turned out was the more serious Rheumatic Fever?!

By the time I left hospital some 10 months later my Mother had found a nice Council house in Kent, so I never returned to Ashford.

I could write a book about experiences there (mostly good ones).

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[stonechat]

I think it must have been where the Remand Centre later was (Now knocked down and the site of a Women's Prison)

Bob

[Uncle Reff]

I could write a book about experiences there (mostly good ones).

Those are the sort of current day memories that should be recorded, they are tomorrow's history.

It would be very interesting (but now probably impossible) to compare those days with my grandfather's experiences at the turn of the last century...

Thanks for that gnashers and welcome to Rootschat 

John

[Gentry]

I am posting this message on behalf of my freind phil ------, he and his brother john were at the school from 1933 to 1945 . he can remember all that was bad from this period of his life, Maidenhead, beatings cruelty  sexual abuse ect his toothe brush number.I am writing his memoirs and his life was not a bed of roses.

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[Florentina]

I have been trying to trace inmates from Ashford Residential School for years and came across The Rootschat by accident.
I can't help the originator of this enquiry but can confirm that I was there, along with my younger brother from 47 to late 49
(5o in his case)
Yes it was situated at the bottom of Woodthorpe road on a bend. It was, as has been commented, very Dickensian (Victorian). In my day it was a school for children with problems, of all sorts, at home.
I remember a few names 'Quigley' who I had a fight with,
Cedric Budd and his brother. George Warner. About 6 of us won a scholarship and travelled to a Central School in Southfields (a journey of well over an hour in each direction but that's another story. We used to go to Saturday morning pictures in Staines. one or two of us would pay 6old pence to go in, then charge 3old pence as we held the fire exit open for the rest! We had two (typically ex Army types) in charge 'Wally' Hammond and a Mr Walton. Although the discipline was tough (I had to stand facing a wall with my arms stretched out for about two hours just for scrumping) I found them both to be decent men and fair.

Does anyone remember 'The Tunnel' ? well it was a ditch that ran under the railway we used it often as a short cut to go to Staines or to escape if confined to quarters.

I was eventually stretchered out via 'The infimary' with suspected scarlet fever, which, as it turned out was the more serious Rheumatic Fever?!

By the time I left hospital some 10 months later my Mother had found a nice Council house in Kent, so I never returned to Ashford.

I could write a book about experiences there (mostly good ones).

It would be great if you would think about writing a book on the subject of Ashford Residential School, Gnashers

[Valda]

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