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Down Our Way<br />

ACH 3W<br />

PERSONAL NUMBER PLATES<br />

T34 CHR<br />

PERSONAL NUMBER PLATES<br />

ACH 3W and T34 CHR are both available<br />

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P54<br />

Built in 1715 Chew's House, situated<br />

in High Street South, was established<br />

as a charity school for forty boys from<br />

poor families.<br />

Its founder, William Chew, who was<br />

sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1709, had<br />

declared his intention to erect a<br />

school-house in Dunstable, but died<br />

in 1713 before his ambition could be<br />

realised.<br />

As William had made no will, it was<br />

left to his heirs to fulfil his intention,<br />

which they did in good faith and in<br />

deference to his wishes. For many<br />

years before his death, Chew had paid<br />

for the clothing of thirty, poor local<br />

boys.<br />

William Chew's family were originally<br />

from London and were distillers by<br />

trade, having acquired the 'Sugar Loaf',<br />

The World of Personal <strong>Number</strong> <strong>Plates</strong> Regtransfers.co.uk<br />

Chew’s House<br />

Article and photograph:<br />

Stan Thompson<br />

one of Dunstable's most<br />

famous coaching inns of the<br />

18th century.<br />

On its opening, the school's<br />

master was paid the princely<br />

salary of £40 p.a. to 'teach the<br />

charity boys so far as to make<br />

them perfect in reading the<br />

English tongue, and in the<br />

rules of grammar and in<br />

writing and accounts, so as to<br />

fit them for handycraft trades'.<br />

The master's salary was still<br />

only £40 some hundred years<br />

later, though it was increased to<br />

£60 in 1823!<br />

The school finally closed in<br />

1905, and today the fine old<br />

building serves as offices and<br />

meeting rooms for nearby<br />

Dunstable Priory.<br />

Volume 3 Issue 2

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