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Gravesend, Technical Institute 1902
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Memories of Gravesend, Technical Institute 1902

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Gravesend, Technical Institute 1902

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If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

I was a pupil at the Gravesend Technical School for Girls and remember walking along from Pelham Road to have our school lunches at the Boys School, housed in the Technical Institute - sausage and mash and some puddings with custard. Was at the school when it moved out to Wombwell Hall. Remember Mrs Pike (she had lost her pilot husband during the war) who taught us Pitmans Shorthand, which I went on to teach at our ...see more