Headlands School, Penarth
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Headlands School, Penarth
Image: © Eirian Evans Taken: 4 May 2019
Built in 1868 as 'Penarth Hotel' by the Taff Vale Railway Company. It was bought and presented to National Children's Home by the widow of Major J A Gibbs in memory of her husband who was killed during First World War, opening in July 1921. It was a nautical training school known as the J A Gibbs Home; subsequently renamed The Headlands School. It became an "approved" school, in 1936 and remained so until approved schools were abolished in 1969. In 1978 it became co-educational.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.44288
Longitude
-3.16757