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Description: | The Licensed Victuallers' School was opened by Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent in 1938 on the former site of The Royal Hotel and the British Orphan Asylum. The Society of Licensed Victuallers had taken over the abandoned British Orphan Asylum building in 1920 when it moved its school from London. This building was later demolished and a new school constructed. Showcases in the entrance hall of the school displayed large model dolls dressed in childrens' costumes of 1837 and 1897 (Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee) as well as in contemporary dress. The school moved to Ascot in the late 1980s. The land was purchased by Tesco in 1989 and a supermarket opened on the site in September 1990. The cedar tree shown in this image may be the same tree which Tesco removed in December 2004, despite local protest, in order to redevelop the site.
The postcard was published by T.V.A.P. Oxford , Series XXXV, no 1512, probably during the 1950s. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Schools Licensed Victuallers' School ; British Orphan Asylum ; Tesco ; T.V.A.P. Oxford | Temporal: | start=1938-01-01; end=1960-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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