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| Salford Terrace |
It was in this year financial grants became available to local authorities for the development of technical education. A one year lease was taken by the Tonbridge Board on 1 Salford Terrace, and the first technical school was born in the town. Here young people learned a trade in woodcarving, typing, carpentry, technical drawing, cooking, book-keeping, science and art. Its success was evident from annual lists of achievements published in the local press.
Salford Terrace, on Quarry Hill Road, is the row of buildings from Skinners Row to the pharmacy, close to St Stephens Church. At the end of the 19th century the terrace of town houses was occupied by a physician, surgeon and dentist, a music teacher and draper. Gone are the fancy iron railings, grand front doors, stained glass windows and stonework that have now been replaced with the shop frontages one finds in place today.
The Technical Institute would have been sited on the corner of Skinners Row and Arcadia.
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