The typewriting classroom at 'The Hawthorns' Elmfield Road, with shorthand on the blackboard

Date:
Dec 1918
Location:
The Hawthorns, 24 Elmfield Road, Bromley, Greater London Authority, Br1
Reference:
BL24400/005
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

At this date 'The Hawthorns' was a commercial college, teaching typing, shorthand, book-keeping etc., later to become part of Bromley High School which had opened premises in Elmfield Road in 1883. The photograph was taken for Mr William Bowman and Miss Shafto (probably Winifred Annie Shafto who is recorded as a headmistress living at The Hawthorns in 1911).

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Client: Bowman, William

Client: Shafto

Keywords

Classroom, Early 20th Century Commercial College, Education