ODHS, High st Westbury on Severn (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, October 09, 2018, 00:56 (2244 days ago) @ Mike Pinchin

That's interesting Mike, does seem an odd choice of name from a geographical viewpoint, but I wonder why it gave "confusion" in 1949 ?
At first thought it seemed obvious, as when we were primary school kids c1970 we all knew the term "Dean Hall" related to children with learning difficulties, not that we called them that at the time, sadly...
In those circumstances it seems easy to see why some 1950s folk at Westbury might object to a perceived link.

BUT apparently that Dean Hall, apart from being miles away near Speech House, wasn't opened as such until 10 years later in 1958. At least this was when the Council school started, perhaps it was a privately owned before that c1948 ???.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol5/pp405-413#h3-0003

I find that the old (Speech House) Dean Hall was built in 1915 to be a Forestry School, but instead became NCB offices. So I guess even then it was government owned, so unlikely to be briefly privately-owned before becoming a council school in 1958 ?.
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101288976-old-dean-hall-school-west-dean#.W7vsN2dSRkg

Ah well... think I'm reading too much into things... again !
Thanks again sir.