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Is this the Sacred Heart Convent, Leamington? [has been confirmed as Convent of the Sacred Heart at East Dean, Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight]
Image courtesy of Patrick T del C. Nisbett
Dear Sirs,
I came across your website and wondered if you could confirm or otherwise, that the attached postcard is of the Sacred Heart Convent?
Following my mother’s death last year, I have been sorting out her papers etc. and came across the attached in a pile of papers of her mother.
My Italian grandmother was in fact brought up in Paris and in 1905 was taken to the Sacred Heart sisters, where she spent a year learning and perfecting her English. She loved it and must have had a pretty modern father.
I do not know if the two identical postcards I have are of the 1905 vintage or possibly later.
Comments
The Convent of The Sacred Heart was in Leamington between 1903 and 1914/15. It occupied a building in Binswood Avenue that was to become Leamington Collage for boys and is now the Audley Retirement Community.
The building pictured is the former Convent of the Sacred Heart at East Dean, Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight.
Thank you Richard Neale – another small mystery solved!
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