Westmount College - Dover - June 2011

[nelly]

This report is left over from a day out in Kent last month. To be honest the place is in pretty bad shape but it's easy to imagine what it must have looked like in it's hey day

Splored with Skeleton Key, Priority 7 and Tstranger

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The History


Westmout College started life as a Jewish School founded in 1847 by the Rabbi Raphael Cohen

Renamed as Mount Ellis in 1865 for Leicestershire colliery owner and jewish businessman Joseph Joel Ellis, After Ellis's death in 1885 it became a school once more and was run by Robert Chignell.
He later sold it to a group led by Dover Mayor Dr Astley who had recently formed the Dover College Company.

In later years it was run by Dover Council as an adult education centre it was soon to close and fell into disrepair.


The upper floors were gutted by fire in 2007

Thanks for looking
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[tommo]

chuck friday nights eure lotto at it and it would make a grand looking house, nice one fella

 

[Priority 7]

Just need to spend the lotto on the rest of the street its in too though lol. Nice shots Nelly

 

[godzilla73]

Now that takes me back....there was a rumour that they closed it down because there wasn't ever actually much adult learning going on there. This may have had something to do with the fact that it was situated right next to the place where HMRC used to incinerate all the drugs they confiscated. Now that did used to make walking home from school a pleasure...imagine a big group of 14 year old boys all walking a long sniffing the air trying to passively take in the fumes!
Happy memories of a teenage Dovorian.....
Godzy

 

[Acebikerchick]

Loved those photos, thank you..