Thursday, 9 July 2009

CHATHAM HOUSE COLLEGE RAMSGATE 1797-1917

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6 comments:

  1. Judi and ChrisJuly 09, 2009 6:48 pm

    My dad went to Chatham House school.His name is Brendan Martin Hynes.Is this name familiar to you?He probably went to school there in the thirties before w.w.11.I also think that my grandfather may have been a teacher there also.His name was Timothy Joseph Hynes.Please let me know.Thanks.

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  2. Bertie BigglesJuly 10, 2009 12:18 am

    I suspect this picture shows many young men who gave their lives in service of their country just a few years later. Is there a list of names attached and do records from Charham House show how many of those in this picture died between 1914-18?

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  3. Michael ChildJuly 10, 2009 10:40 am

    Judi and Chris there is nothing on the old boys part of the their website but I think the forum there would be a good place to start http://www.chathamhouse.kent.sch.uk/ click on the old boys link on the left of their homepage.

    I couldn’t find anyone of that name in the 1939 Thanet Kelly’s either.

    Bertie my son who studied there says there is a plaque with the names of those killed in WW1 on the wall of the school’s library, but I am sorry no I don’t have names for the picture.

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  4. Bertie BigglesJuly 10, 2009 10:24 pm

    Thanks for that, Michael. A pity as it would perhaps have illustrated the casualty rate from just one school's CCF.

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  5. Alpha A1 TeacherApril 22, 2023 5:21 pm

    Hi there Judy and Chris, I know you posted this a long time ago but I think the person you are describing in your post is a relative of mine. My grandmother was a Hynes from Tarbert in Co Kerry and her brother was Timothy who moved to Ramsgate and became a teacher and then joined the Air Force during the war. They had a son Brendan and a daughter Kathleen named after her mother. I think Brendan had a daughter Penelope. Does any of that sound familiar to you?

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.