It was to Tonbridge Technical Institute that Kent Education Committee steered Hosey School headmaster ‘Dick’ Forsey when teaching staff in the School requested to start a programme of evening classes in the mid 1920s to provide further education for the senior boys. These proved very popular and were soon opened to the younger boys as ...
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The boys shown here are L-R Jack Bateman, Bernard Chilman, Reg Hooker, Ron Curtis and John Cafferty. The photograph was taken by Frederick Benson at Keswick Studio. If you look carefully in the refection on the shield, you can see Mr Benson, wearing a homburg hat which he favoured.
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