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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.
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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.
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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.