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 Founded c1898 as Lytham &
Fairhaven College for Girls, Church Road, principal Miss Florence Morris
(b.1874). By 1901 she had married George E Lindley (b.1873).
George became a Music Master at the school. About 1904 the school
was renamed Lowther College for Girls. There was also a hostel on
Church Road (pictured right).
In 1914, in a bid to expand the college,
the Lindleys acquired "Westwood". This large house, set in its own
grounds and overlooking the cricket ground, became "The Hostel" and the Senior
House.
In 1918 the school acquired Lonsdale House (see below) which
stood opposite Lowther College and alongside the old hostel.
After the 1914-18 War the school still needed to expand but
couldn't on its present site.
Building costs were prohibitive at this time so it removed to Bodelwyddan Castle,
Wales, in the 1920s.
For more pictures of the school in the early 1900s, view
the
Lowther College Image Gallery
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"The Hostel", Lowther College c1905
People resident at Lytham & Fairhaven
(Lowther)College for Girls on the day of the 1901 Census (31st
March) and their ages:
Florence Lindley,
Principal, 27
George E Lindley Music Master, 28
Bessie Morris (Music Tutor/Florence's
sister), 20
Ethel Dalby (Governess), 25
Lia Kachler (Governess), 24
Annie Moore (Governess), 24
Nellie Reid (Governess), 33
Freda Smyth (Governess), 23
Hilda Bonchier (Boarder), 14
Nancy Edwards (Boarder), 8
Florence Fairclough (Boarder), 8
Dorothy Fletcher (Boarder), 17
Jessie Goodbehere (Boarder), 15
Lucy Goodbepere (Boarder), 14
Ethel Hancock (Boarder), 15
Jessie Hulton (Boarder), 15
Dora Johnstone (Boarder), 12
Annie Lund (Boarder), 15
Reita Lund (Boarder), 14
Charita Lunn (Boarder), 16
Minnie Lycett (Boarder), 15
Gertrude Mawdsley (Boarder), 13
Murrie Mawdsley (Boarder), 11
Alice Oldfield (Boarder), 16
Robert Perks (Boarder), 6
Maggie Roebuck (Boarder), 13
Elsie Shaw (Boarder), 12
Millicent Shaw (Boarder), 14
Elsie Smith (Boarder), 8
Gertrude Smith (Boarder), 13
Jessie Smith (Boarder), 14
Annie Sutcliffe (Boarder), 13
Ethel Williams (Boarder), 15
Ivy Williams (Boarder), 12
Louie Williamson (Boarder), 13
Marion Harrison (Cook), 46
Emma Barlow (Housemaid), 50
Lucy Whiting (Housemaid), 25
John Wilson (Pageboy), 15
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