Westminster College

[Pea Brain]

In the 1920's / 1930's what type of establishment was Westminster College ?

[Count-A-Strong]

There are several Westminster Colleges. To which one do you refer?

[dotty.]

do you mean in the UK or the USA?

[Pea Brain]

Thank you very much for your replies. I understand that the Westminster College to which I refer is very close to Westminster Abbey in London, England. I would like to know what sort of college it was, i.e. Public School, Teacher Training College etc. I believe in the 1920s/30s it was attended by young men, I am not quite sure of what age.

[dotty.]

http://en.wikipedia.o...nster_College,_Oxford
http://www.westminstercollegeforum.net/

[ABerrant]

Oxford is quite a ways outside the City of Westminster.

Westminster College began as a School of Hospitality in Vincent Square in 1910 when a committee of academics and hospitality representatives, which included Auguste Escoffier and Isidore Salmon, came together to develop a school for professional cookery.

September 2000 saw the merger of Westminster and Kingsway Colleges to form Westminster Kingsway College.

http://en.wikipedia.o...ster_Kingsway_College

[dotty.]

I posted a link to the history of the westminster college that was in westminster until the second world war.

[dotty.]

then it moved to oxford

[boxtops]

My nephew went to Westminster in London twenty five years ago for the sixth form, it was definitely within sound of the bells of Westminster Cathedral then.

[ABerrant]

That'll teach me to not assume from just glancing at web addresses instead of adequately perusing the links.

Thus far we have ascertained that in the '20s / '30s there were at least two Westminster Colleges within the locality of Westminster Abbey.

[dotty.]

one of them was linked to the Methodists

[boxtops]

That makes sense now dotty, I went to a meeting up there a few weeks back, it was in a beautiful old building, the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster.

[mike11111]

There is a Westminster School (not college) located in the precincts of Westminster Abbey (not to be confused with Westminster Cathedral [RC]) which is a very old and reputable public school. The Deputy Prime Minister is an old boy.

[Count-A-Strong]

This is precisely why I asked for clarification of which Westminster college the poster was inquiring about.

[dotty.]

yes same here count, i think the OP is looking for a private school for senior pupils which suggests the upper years of the public school as opposed to what we would consider a college.

[Count-A-Strong]

Dot, people want to know if yr nephew was on XF

[dotty.]

not seen him yet

[Pea Brain]

Thank you for your varied comments. I seems to have discovered a numer of so-called 'Westminster' schools/colleges -- one which has moved, one which has amalgamated and one which had a meethodist connection. I had an uncle who in the 1920s went from a methodist-foundation grammar school to a 'college' in Westminster where I think he was preparing for teaching. (The methodist connection is interesting.) I am trying to establish which establishment it might have been.

[ABerrant]

The one which relocated to Oxford was the Methodist Teacher Training College.