Hi There
I just looked at the 1956 street directories of Weston-Super-Mare & see that 17,19 & 21 South Road are for La Retraite Convent School For Girls which was a boarding & day school.
also 23 South Road is the senior girls house for La retraite.
I hope that this is some help to you
All the very best
Phil
ps Im sending this posting from the main library at Weston-super-Mare
Thank you very much for that information, I was wondering whereabouts on the road it would have been.
The building (now the Leawood Court) still looks to be pretty much intact from the image I have of La Retraite Convent from the early 1900's.
Weston Super Mare Gazette and General Advertiser, 14 May 1910
Educational
EASTERN HOUSE, SOUTH ROAD
Weston Super Mare
HIGH CLASS HOME SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
Careful Preparation for Examinations
Outside pupils can be received for Music, Singing and Languages
For Prospectus apply to Misses Cruse and Helmsly
The 1911 Census shows about 50 boarders
Well this is a problem. I was lead to believe that the Eastern House School was not a girls school until the early 30's. If it was a girls school as early as 1910 then there is every possibility that it was that school that my relative attended and not the La Retraite school.
Is there any other sources I should be looking for to help narrow this down? Other than finding my relatives name in school records (which I can't seem to find any of) I am all out of ideas sadly