Genealogy in Hertfordshire

Schools
 

Lockers Park School

Hemel Hempstead

  

Places

Hemel Hempstead

H. Montague Draper started a preparatory school at Hillside, in Heath Lane in 1872. He moved to the purpose built Lockers Park in 1874, which was designed by the architect Sidney Scott.

School Web Site

Wikipedia Entry

 

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Lockers Park, Hemel Hempstead

  

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The Chapel

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The Gymnasium

Published by Lofthouse, Crosbie & Co., Hampton, Middx

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Dining Room

  

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The School

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Swimming Bath

Photographed and Published by Lofthouse, Crosbie & Co., Hampton, Middx

The Library

 P. A. Buchanan & Co Ltd.

Chiswick, London. E.

(No 3999)

Published circa 1909

 

Compare this with the later picture, below. While much is unchanged the large gas? lights have been replaced with electric lights and a doorway has been added in the far corner of the room.

 

[Click on picture for much larger image]

  

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The Library  (No. 46519) Published 1930s?

  


Drawing Room
(No. 46521)

 

P. A. Buchanan & Co Ltd. Queenswood Avenue, Thornton Heath, Surrey

 
February 2009   Page Created
February 2010   Brief history note and link to school web site
August 2011   circa 1900 card of Lockers Park