debbie britnell wrote:Sorry an elderly lady I know said that she used to go to this school but she couldnt have gone to a grammer so was curious as to what the building was used for before the girls grammer x
There is a centenary year history of the DGGS on the link below but curiously it ends at 1928 with the statement "In December 1928 the first headmistress, Miss Chapman retired. On her retirement she said that she looked ahead to a time when the girls might occupy the boys' premises in Frith Road, and have ample space and benefit from cold and hot water!"
Lillian Kay's book states that the girls school was evacuated to Caerleon in Wales in 1940 and returned to Dover in 1945. By that time it had changed its name from the Dover County School for Girls to the Dover Grammar School for Girls but it is not apparent in which year between 1928 and 1945 this took place.
Possibly the elderly lady to whom Debbie refers attended the school at Frith Road before it changed to the DGGS.
http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1uvah/CentenaryHistory/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffree.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F444019%2FCentenary-History