looking for a girls school that used to exist in acton or london
england 1n 1920 on jerningham rd- i think. name is/was haberdashers
aske's .is it there
or has the name been changed. thank you

Hello richarde, 

I believe that I have located the school that you are looking for:

http://www.hahc.org.uk/

The contact information for the school is available here:
http://www.hahc.org.uk/contact/contactframe.htm

One of the Aims of the schools currently is:
"To provide single-sex education for students up to the age of 16 and
co-education in the sixth form."
http://www.hahc.org.uk/The_College/collegeframe.htm

Admissions information is available here:
http://www.hahc.org.uk/admissions/admissionsframe.htm

You can view a map here:
http://uk8.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=SE145NY&title=Haberdashers'+Aske's+Hatcham+College+-+Jerningham+Site

I hope this is what you were looking for. If you need any
clarifications, let me know and I will do my best to further assist
you.

tisme-ga


Search Strategy:

haberdashers jerningham
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=haberdashers+jerningham

---

Clarification of Answer by tisme-ga on 07 Jan 2003 20:31 PST

Hello again,

I do believe this map will better serve you:

http://uk8.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=536000&Y=177000&width=500&height=300&client=&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&scale=10000&down.x=14&down.y=23

You can actually see Jerningham Road marked on this one. The "Sec Sch"
marked on the map appears to be the actual building.

I recommend that you use the contact information above to contact the
organization/school directly for further information.

tisme-ga

---

Clarification of Answer by tisme-ga on 07 Jan 2003 20:45 PST

Just have one more bit to add to my answer that I just discovered:

Haberdashers Askes Girls
020 7652 9500 (phone)
Jerningham Rd
http://www.habsgirls.org.uk/start.htm (website for the school)

There are also some email addresses available to contact the school directly.

All the best,

tisme-ga

thank you so very much-our family is looking for info on our mother
who attended this school in 1920 and you were a great help-we hope to
visit this area.

Dear Richarde,

Your question is, in fact, ambiguous, as it refers to both Acton (a
district of west London) and Jerningham Road (a street in south-east
London).  There are or were two separate schools in these places.

The Haberdashers' Company, a city livery company, administer a number
of schools, more than one of which were founded by Robert Aske and are
therefore known as Haberdashers' Aske's schools.  You can find details
of all the Haberdashers' schools on the Haberdashers site at

http://www.haberdashers.co.uk/Haberdashers/education/Schools.asp

A description of the history of the schools is at

http://www.haberdashers.co.uk/Haberdashers/education/THEHABERDASH.asp

As you will see, schools were originally founded in both Hoxton and
Hatcham.  The Hatcham schools are still there (in what is more often
called New Cross) in south-east London.  These are the schools that
Tisme has described in most of his/her answer.  For information about
the Hatcham girls' school, see

http://www.hahc.org.uk

The Hoxton girls' school was later moved to Acton in west London.  So
as you will see, the Acton school and the Jerningham Road school were
quite different schools.  You may have to investigate both to find out
which one your mother attended.  The Acton girls' school was moved
again in 1974, this time to Elstree in Hertfordshire, just north of
and outside Greater London.  Here it joined, on neighbouring sites,
the Hoxton boys' school, which had moved to Elstree earlier (via a
period in Hampstead).

The Elstree girls' school's web site is at

http://www.habsgirls.org.uk

(Tisme's reference in his/her second clarification is to this school's
site, in fact.)

A map showing the location of both the Elstree schools is at

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=516989&y=196398&z=1&sv=516750</a>,196250&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

Use the "-" button to zoom out and see where the location is.

I trust this will help you in your search.

Search strategy:
personal knowledge, having taught some time ago at the Elstree boys'
school.

Carnegie

Dear Richarde,

Apologies for bungling the last link in my comment, but the first part
of it does work.

Carnegie