Guess the Place

[pete.mason]

Well done, a curious pub -public bar seats were all old bus seats possibly due to the fact it was opposite Borogh Green Bus garage 

[grandarog]

The Black Horse at Borough Green. 


http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project/Black-Horse-Borough-Green.html

[pete.mason]

Another boozy one!

[grandarog]

Thanks John Walker ,all clear now. I thought I was having a senior moment trying to work it out.

[John Walker]

John Walker ,
You have completely confused me. Great write up but I cannot find any relevance to where the place is .Googling the Caldicott Foundation /School gives the impression the place is Smeeth,Ashford. Presume as this is Guess the place you would have given the place it is at. I am completely befuzzled ,Put it down to Age.

Sorry Grandarog   I've just noticed that final paragraph was missing which stated where the GTP location is.   I've now added the missing paragraph and attached a map to this post.   Red Arrow is where the GTP photo was taken - the Caldecott Foundation HQ.  The Blue Arrow is the previous location - Mersham le Hatch where the Foundation was until around 2000.  So,  Smeeth is the nearest location.

[grandarog]

John Walker ,
You have completely confused me. Great write up but I cannot find any relevance to where the place is .Googling the Caldicott Foundation /School gives the impression the place is Smeeth,Ashford. Presume as this is Guess the place you would have given the place it is at. I am completely befuzzled ,Put it down to Age.

[John Walker]

Caldicott School?

Well done Pete - that's the place.  Caldecott Foundation, (formerly The Caldecott Community).  The building in the photo is the Foundation HQ - the school is in the grounds behind the house.

History as the CaldecottCommunity.  The Caldecott Community began its life in 1911 when Leila Rendel and her friend Phyllis Potter set up their own nursery school based on the progressive ideas of Margaret McMillan and Leila's aunt Edith Rendel who was an active critic of the English Poor Laws, a pioneer girls' club leader and a militant suffragist. Their school was located at Cartwright Gardens in St Pancras and mainly catered to the children of women working in a nearby matchbox factory. An admirer of Randolph Caldecott's children's book illustrations, Rendel named the nursery school in his honour and adorned its walls with a frieze of his pictures. Rendel's grandfather, Alexander Meadows Rendel, provided them with an endowment and further donations were received from her large circle of family and friends. By 1914 the school was well-established with a written constitution and Percy Nunn as its chairman. Princess Louise served as its president.


Charlton Court in East Sutton, Caldecott's home from 1917 to 1924The continued German bombing of London and subsequent condemnation of the St Pancras building by the local council in 1917 led the Caldecott Community to move with its teachers and children to Charlton Court, a large country house near Maidstone. In the process it became the first co-educational boarding school in the UK for working-class children. When the lease on Charlton Court expired in 1924, the school moved to another country house in Goffs Oak, a village in Hertfordshire and remained there for the next eight years. During its time there the community increasingly took in distressed and vulnerable children whose family lives had been disrupted by death, illness, and divorce.The school moved back to the Maidstone area in 1932 where it occupied Mote House. The World War II bombing of Maidstone led to the community moving to Hyde Heath in Dorset in 1941 where they remained for the duration of the war. Lord Lytton served as chairman of the school's trustees. During that period 100 boys and girls, including 15 Jewish refugees, were living in the community. They ranged in age from 1 to 16. At the time, only children up to the age of 11 were educated within the community itself. The older boys and girls went to local secondary schools. Over the years, ten Caldecott pupils were sent to Gordonstoun School on scholarships. Leila Rendel was a life-long friend of Kurt Hahn, Gordonstoun's founder, and was a founding trustee of the school.

Mersham-le-Hatch in Mersham, Caldecott's home from 1947 to 2000 In 1947 the community moved to Mersham-le-Hatch, a large country house designed by Robert Adam surrounded by parkland. Located near Ashford in Kent, it had served as a military hospital during World War II. That same year with a grant from the Nuffield Trust, Rendel set up the first experimental reception centre in England to assess the most appropriate placement for children who had been taken into care. Mersham would remain Caldecott's home for over five decades. Its owner, Lord Brabourne became a long-time supporter of the community and served on its board of governors for over 40 years. Leila Rendel retired from active directorship of the community in 1967 and died two years later at the age of 86. James King succeeded her as the director and served in that post until his retirement in 1993. Like Rendel, he was awarded an OBE for his work with the community. During his tenure he reorganised the community's structure and set up smaller family units for the residential care of the children and young people in its care.

With the impending expiry of the lease on Mersham-le-Hatch in the late 1990s, the community's organization underwent further structural changes, and in 1997 changed its name to the Caldecott Foundation. An £8m appeal was launched to fund the future accommodation and expansion of Caldecott. In 2002, the foundation's new headquarters were opened at Caldecott House, a large Victorian residence in Smeeth. Several residential homes were constructed on its grounds as well as a purpose-built school nearby which opened in 2003.  The foundation launched another appeal in 2011, its centenary year. The appeal raised £750,000 which was used to upgrade the foundation's supported accommodation and to set up two vocational training centres.
As of 2018, the foundation's services include therapeutic residential care, emergency and assessment centres, vocational training and education both through tutoring and small classes in their residential care homes or at the Caldecott Foundation School, and fostering placement. The foundation is governed by an eight-member board of trustees whose chairman is Charles Lister OBE.

[pete.mason]

Caldicott School?

[John Walker]

Not Hythe or Westenhanger


Remember the clues -


About 3 km from Sellindge
On the side of a previously busier 'A' Road
On the side of an 'A' Road and close to a motorway and rail line, all of which head toward Folkestone.


Further clues.


A Lord has a strong connection with this organisation.
There are 4 tracks of rail line at this point.
A fairly new school within the grounds.
The organisation was in another large property on the other side of the road until the lease expired.

[Diapason]

Hythe?


But have no idea where!

[pete.mason]

Westenhanger

[John Walker]

Sellinge

About 3km out Pete.  The organisation at this property started in the St Pancras area London,  in the early 1900s.

[pete.mason]

Sellinge

[John Walker]

Folkstone area?

Well Shoot999 - the A Road, the Motorway and the rail line are all heading that way.

This building can be seen on GSV but only in one shot.  Otherwise, it's hidden be trees.

[shoot999]

Folkstone area?