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Nevill, Emmie
Person
Emmie Nevill attended the Regent street Polytechnic in 1922 and obtained a certificate for book-keeping. She was 21 at the time. She was later employed by the Anglo Persian Company. Emmie continued her book-keeping work until she was in her 80's and this certificate she proudly had hanging on her wall. Her parents (William and Alice Nevill) along with Mr. & Mrs. Binstead were the first four students at the Regent Street Polytechnic and were pupils numbered 1,2,3 and 4.
Baker, Alice G (fl.1923-1946), alumna
Person · fl.1923-1946

Born, c1923; volunteered for the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1940; basic training at Guildford; posted to the Records Office at Winchester; moved to Bournemouth; the work included writing up secret war diaries; posted to London to study for six months at Regent Street Polytechnic, 1942; kept apart from the civilian students; taught in the electrical and radio workshops; sent to Gainsborough for the final stages of training, including learning how to search for signals which could be relayed to guns and to calibrate the information; posted to Charminster, working in the radio workshops and on the gun sites; posted to various workshops around England, eventually at Kippings Cross near Pembury, Kent; discharged, 1946; married P R Baker.

The Schools of Engineering at Regent Street Polytechnic were used between 1940 and 1945 for training technicians in various disciplines for the army, navy and air force. Departmental laboratories were used under a double-shift system, and several thousand personnel were trained over the period. Civilian day courses were maintained, but with a restricted number of students, and evening courses were discontinued until the end of the war.
Blamey, John T
Person
John T Blamey attended engineering classes at the Poly in the 1930s. His son, Mike, attended the Royal Masonic School and was present at a Polytechnic Masonic Service in 1959, and also served as a VSO at the Technical Institute in Guyana in 1964/5.
Corby, E Roy (1905-1990), alumnus
Person · 1905-1990
E R Corby (1905-1990) was an architectural student from the late 1930's of the Regent Street Polytechnic. Several drawings attributed to Corby are stamped Riley and Glanfield Chartered Architects, 6 Raymond Buildings, Grays Inn, WC1., suggesting that he was employed at this firm in the late 1930s-1950s. Further information provided by the donor indicates that Corby was also employed by Giles Gilbert Scott and produced drawings for him of Coventry and Liverpool Cathedrals and the Houses of Parliament during its restoration in 1945/6.
Jackson, Ernest William
Person
Bill Jackson received his BSc (Eng) from Regent Street Polytechnic in 1951. He moved with his civil engineering career a great deal, spending 5 years in Nigeria 1955-60 and 2 years in Northern Ireland 1967-69. Bill was engineer in charge of the construction of the Cookstown Cement Works, later bombed by the IRA. In 1975/6 Bill was in charge of part of the M4/M5 motorway junction at Almondsbury, Bristol. Bill hadjoined Sir Lyndsey Parkinson & Co. in 1960. In 1982 the company was taken over by AMEC and soon after Bill retired to run a small hotel with his wife in Bournemouth which they did for the next 24 years. Bill died aged 80 in 2008.
M.B.R.
Person