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Offline Eilleen

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Where is this school.
« on: Friday 17 August 18 12:51 BST (UK) »
Have found a little pile of postcards and old Birthday/Xmas cards in a charity shop.

wondered if anyone knew this place, has  no writing on back.

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EXTON, from Rutland, Stamford, Boston, Lincoln. LANES, from Coleby,to Bracebridge Lincoln.WAKEFIELD,PROUDMAN Cheshire and  Stafford.<br />PINDAR, MOORE, ,CHAMBERS mostly from Lincolnshire.
LAING from Elgin ,Scotland.
 HADDELSEY from Caistor,and Grimsby Lincolnshire.                   
 Parfitt, Le Gros ,Le Sueur, from Jersey.
Martin, from Doncaster  to whelyn garden city, London.
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Re: Where is this school.
« Reply #1 on: Friday 17 August 18 13:41 BST (UK) »
Are the other pictures local, I assume you found it in Lincoln(shire)   :-\

I can't see anything by searching 'CREEN House'  or Finn Cup
Maybe it is Green house  ::)
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Re: Where is this school.
« Reply #2 on: Friday 17 August 18 13:50 BST (UK) »
"Green house" may just mean one of the "houses" a school was divided into for purpose of competing at sports etc.

I was in the "red" house at the first school I went to and "blue" house at a later school.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Where is this school.
« Reply #3 on: Friday 17 August 18 13:54 BST (UK) »
I also think it was a 'house name'  my junior school had Bannister, Chataway, Hilary & Tensing - That shows my age  ;D

I tried increasing the picture size but still could not decide whether it started with a C or G
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Re: Where is this school.
« Reply #4 on: Friday 17 August 18 14:02 BST (UK) »
When I Googled Finn cup I got this

Finn Cup
www.pp.gaa.ie/history?tmpl=%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Ftemplates%2Fprint%2F...1
Competition suspended between 1949-1956 ... 1986 Birr Community School ... VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS SENIOR 'A' FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS (Finn Cup).

but the link gets a page doesn't exist message.

but this could be related

http://www.gaa.ie/postprimaryschools/

Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Where is this school.
« Reply #5 on: Friday 17 August 18 14:15 BST (UK) »
Hi rosie99,

yes Lincolnshire find, but Leicestershire address's on a couple of the scenic postcards ,

Mrs Ryneburg, 13, Storer ? road, Loughborough.

It looks like letter G , because the other two C's are different  :)

EXTON, from Rutland, Stamford, Boston, Lincoln. LANES, from Coleby,to Bracebridge Lincoln.WAKEFIELD,PROUDMAN Cheshire and  Stafford.<br />PINDAR, MOORE, ,CHAMBERS mostly from Lincolnshire.
LAING from Elgin ,Scotland.
 HADDELSEY from Caistor,and Grimsby Lincolnshire.                   
 Parfitt, Le Gros ,Le Sueur, from Jersey.
Martin, from Doncaster  to whelyn garden city, London.
BINT, Worchester, in Australian mint.

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Re: Where is this school.
« Reply #6 on: Friday 17 August 18 15:33 BST (UK) »
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk seems to have some mentions in the Grantham area...
1934...
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SPITALGATE SCHOOL. Annual Athletic Sports at Grantham, Blue House Wins Two Cups
 The Finn Cup, which awarded to the House doing the best work in the class and the field, was won by Blue House, with 173 points...

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5633689
 - this image of the old building, while I'm not sure it's at the same location the photo was taken, does show some windows very similar in layout as in the photo - the three tall narrow with three lines (vents?) above.
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« Reply #7 on: Friday 17 August 18 15:37 BST (UK) »
The only references I can see to the surname on the postcard on freebmd is more recent but also Grantham
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Re: Where is this school.
« Reply #8 on: Friday 17 August 18 15:41 BST (UK) »
interesting  :)
EXTON, from Rutland, Stamford, Boston, Lincoln. LANES, from Coleby,to Bracebridge Lincoln.WAKEFIELD,PROUDMAN Cheshire and  Stafford.<br />PINDAR, MOORE, ,CHAMBERS mostly from Lincolnshire.
LAING from Elgin ,Scotland.
 HADDELSEY from Caistor,and Grimsby Lincolnshire.                   
 Parfitt, Le Gros ,Le Sueur, from Jersey.
Martin, from Doncaster  to whelyn garden city, London.
BINT, Worchester, in Australian mint.
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