THIS IS THE BLOG OF COLIN JONES, RHYL TOWN COUNCILLOR: BODFOR WARDl
The opinions expressed in this blog are entirely my own and not the views of the town council.
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This is Colet House, 36 East Parade, which is opposite crown green bowling and the lifeboat station. Colet House has the year 1903 inscribed over its front entrance and was a 'prep school'. It prepared children up to the age of 11 or 13 for the fee-paying institutions that we British describe perversely as ‘public schools’.
The photograph is undated and you would be brave to hazard an exact guess because the building’s appearance hasn’t changed a lot in more than a century; I would say that the picture is pre-1945. These days Colet House is St David’s Residential Home for the Elderly and worth a second glance as you stroll along.
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TUE 17th AUG 2010 UPDATE: The postcard below shows another use of Colet House. It is a card from 'Billy' to his parents in Rossington near Doncaster, postmarked 1956:
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