Portal House School, Sea Street
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Portal House School, Sea Street by John Baker as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Portal House School, Sea Street
Image: © John Baker Taken: 28 Apr 2015
Portal House school is a Victorian building which was built in 1840. It was known as Marine House and it was owned by Mr James Temple. It was run as a ladies[‘] boarding school and by 1851 the 20 pupils had increased to 38 - one from as far away as India! Later on in 1891 the building was purchased by the Portal Benevolent Institution to be used as a convalescent home for working men, called Morley House after the founder of the institution. From 1914 to 1918 it was occupied by the military and then in 1947 it was sold to the KCC to be used as a home for the elderly until 1977 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-636000-144000/page/8 A public notice, published in the East Kent Mercury of 15 January 2015, gave the information that there was a proposal to demolish the school and rebuild it, on its existing site, with an additional 20 places http://consultations.kent.gov.uk/consult.ti/PortalHouse/consultationHome
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
51.152582
Longitude
1.373724