Berkhamsted, Ashlyns School c.1960
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B407039
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Ashlyns School was built in 1933-35 and accepted its first pupils in September 1935. It originally offered places for 400 pupils aged between 5 and 15 years. The site had been used as an overflow for Thomas Coram's Bloomsbury Foundling Hospital, but had passed to the estate of nearby Ashlyns Hall prior to its purchase in 1929. The new school was inaugurated by Prince Arthur of Connaught in July 1935; it became a Secondary Modern School in January 1951. Amongst its treasures were the original coat of arms from Coram's Hospital, which still forms part of the pediment, and an organ donated by G F Handel to the Foundling Hospital. Unfortunately, the organ was removed when the County Council completed the purchase of the school in 1955.
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