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Offline arabrab

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King's School Chester during ww2
« on: Sunday 25 February 18 14:44 GMT (UK) »
My brother attended King's School Chester briefly during ww2 . I wonder if anyone knows whether the school was still in the original buildings near the cathedral at this time or was it moved elsewhere before its final move to the Wrexham Road ?
 I am making a collection of photos of places where he lived, went to school etc   I looked at the online school archive catalogue but couldn't work it out. Any help most welcome as I was born at the end of the war and we moved away soon after that,  so I have no memories from that time.
Bucks- Young,Neale,Wright,Ludgate,Todd,Turney,Crouch,Roberts,Hoare
Oxon Whichello,Roberts,Slatter,Kimber
Kent-Fox,Medhurst,Pearson,Wimble,French,Tilby,Bassage
Herts-Pellant,Martin,Figg,Turney
London, Scotland, Ireland - McWatt
Suffolk-Fox,Sage,Scarfe,Palmer
Berks - Kimber,Dorman

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Re: King's School Chester during ww2
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 25 February 18 15:32 GMT (UK) »
It does say that in the 1940's, to accommodate increases in pupil numbers, that The King's School took over part of the former Bluecoat School buildings on Upper Northgate Street.  Why don't you contact the school itself  :-\

A hint of nostalgia for me, seeing the striped blazers.  My school in the 50's, Verdin County Grammar School in Winsford, had very similar blazers, but the green was exchanged for claret
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