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School in Felixstowe
« on: Friday 17 May 24 10:21 BST (UK) »
I am doing some research for a friend. In the '1939 England & Wales Register' for the Felixstowe area the Old Felixstowe House School is listed along with a list of some of the boys attending the school. This is the only reference I can find to the school. It is presumably a private school. I have looked through the pages of the register immediately before and after the relevant page in the hope that I might find a helpful street name, but to no avail. If anybody wants to take a look for themselves you can enter 'John S. Doyle', DOB 18th August 1930 in the register (Ancestry). I would appreciate any help.

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Re: School in Felixstowe
« Reply #1 on: Friday 17 May 24 10:34 BST (UK) »
Ad in local paper from January 1936. No address or contact details
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Re: School in Felixstowe
« Reply #2 on: Friday 17 May 24 10:35 BST (UK) »
If you go back to the 1939 Register then the next entry is for another school - Fleet House Girls School and then Bartlet Convalescent Home.

This map shows the location of the Convalescent Home, so gives an indication of where the schools are.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/101578847
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Re: School in Felixstowe
« Reply #3 on: Friday 17 May 24 10:35 BST (UK) »
Searching British newspapers for Old Felixstowe House School brought up a handful of results with the earliest being in the Felixstowe Times, 4th January 1936 -- an advert which indicates that it was a preparatory school. (image courtesy of Find My Past)

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« Reply #4 on: Friday 17 May 24 10:37 BST (UK) »
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Re: School in Felixstowe
« Reply #5 on: Friday 17 May 24 10:44 BST (UK) »
AllanUK, BumbleB, ShaunJ, knocked out by the swiftness of your replies. Very much appreciated. Quite a bit of new information to go on.

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Re: School in Felixstowe
« Reply #6 on: Friday 17 May 24 11:00 BST (UK) »
Doesn't help with where exactly it was, however an obituary of Freddy Bannister says he went there.
Thursday,  Aug. 22, 2019
Publication: The Times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Bannister
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