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'''Grosvenor Hall''' is an [[Estate (land)|estate]] in [[Kennington, Kent|Kennington]], [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]], [[Kent]]. At first a [[sanitorium]], it was repurposed as a training site for [[police]] recruits and called the '''Ashford Police Training Centre''' between 1973 and 2006. It is now a youth educational and adventure centre.

==Early years==
Grosvenor Hall was originally called Bockhanger Hall and built in 1875 by James S. Burra (1838–1911), an Ashford banker.  Burra was a keen [[arborist]] and the Hall was surrounded by a collection of trees (many of which were destroyed in the storm of 1987). In 1913 the Hall and estate were purchased by Percy H. Jones, who converted it into a [[tuberculosis]] sanatorium. He transferred patients from a sanatorium called Grosvenor House in [[Sandgate, Kent]], and renamed Bockhanger Hall to Grosvenor Hall.<ref>((Cite web |title=Ashford Sanitorium |url=https://45aid.org/history/hostels/ashford/ |access-date=2023-04-03 |language=en-GB|work='45 Aid Society))</ref> During its time as a sanatorium a notable patient was the poet and philosopher [[Simone Weil]], who died there on 24 August 1943.<ref>((Cite magazine |title=How Simone Weil set about ‘refashioning the soul of a country’ |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/how-simone-weil-set-about-refashion-soul-country-essay-robert-zaretsky/ |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=[[The Times Literary Supplement]] |language=en-GB|first=Robert|last=Zaretsky|date=17 August 2018))</ref>

Advances in antibiotics following the [[Second World War]] gradually made tuberculosis sanatoriums obsolete. Grosvenor Hall closed as such in 1955, became a private clinic from 1956 to 1958 and then a conference centre.

==Police training centre==
[[File:Ashford PTC logo.png|right|160px|thumb|Ashford PTC badge]]
In 1961 Grosvenor Hall was bought by the [[Metropolitan Police]] for use as a cadet training school. New classrooms and dormitory blocks were constructed in the estate. During this period Metropolitan Police cadet training was split between [[Hendon Police College|Hendon]] and Ashford, but in 1972 was moved completely to Hendon. 

The Grosvenor Hall estate was bought by the Home Office for use as a regional training centre on 1 January 1973 and was officially opened by [[Mark Carlisle]], the Secretary of State for the Home Office on 6 July 1973. Staff, including the first commandant, were moved from a training centre at Nutfield in Surrey which was closed down. To begin with Ashford was used for continuation courses (see below), the initial training being provided at Sandgate in Kent and Eynsham Hall near Oxford. However Sandgate closed in 1975 and Eynsham Hall closed on 22 May 1981 consolidating all probationer training for the south east region at Ashford.
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  | title = Police Training Centre Ashford, Kent. Passing-Out Parade Friday 11th October 1991 2pm. Booklet available on Facebook
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[[File:Ashford PTC passing out parade.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A typical passing out parade at Ashford PTC in the mid-1980s. The drill sergeant can be seen wearing a red sash in the centre of the parade ground.]]
Although Ashford PTC had the ability to accept overflow from anywhere in England and Wales it usually trained recruits from the following forces:<ref name=times />
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*[[Hampshire Constabulary]]
*[[Kent Police]]
*[[Suffolk Constabulary]]
*[[Sussex Police]]
*[[Surrey Police]]
*[[Essex Police]]
*[[City of London Police]]
*[[Royal Parks Police]]
*[[British Transport Police]]
*[[States of Jersey Police]]
*[[States of Guernsey Police Service|Guernsey Police]]
*[[Hertfordshire Constabulary]]
*[[Buckinghamshire Constabulary]]
*[[Cambridgeshire Constabulary]]
*[[Thames Valley Police]]
*[[Norfolk Constabulary]]
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In 2006 police training in England and Wales underwent a significant change. All initial training was de-regionalised and became non-residential. Ashford PTC and the other remaining regional training centres, Aykley Heads in [[Durham, England|Durham]], [[Bruche Police National Training Centre|Bruche]] in [[Warrington]], Cwmbran in Wales, Ryton in [[Ryton-on-Dunsmore]] and [[RNTE Shotley|Shotley]] in [[Ipswich]] were closed. 
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In 2014, ''[[The Times]]'' reported on a [[Facebook]] group for former Ashford attendees, after a member of the group brought it to their attention. One image posted to the group shows trainee police officers at Ashford in costume using [[blackface]] and [[Nazi symbols]], and another shows female trainees posing in [[Suspender belt|suspenders]]. The officer, whose name was not given, described Ashford as "a drink fest and a shag fest."<ref name=times>((Cite web |last=Palmer |first=Ewan |date=6 February 2014 |title=Blacked-Up Nazi Police Leave Kent Academy Red-Faced |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/blacked-nazi-coppers-cause-red-face-police-acadamy-1435408 |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=International Business Times UK |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite news |last=Simpson |first=John|last2=Billy |first2=Kenber|title=Sexism, swastikas and suspenders . . . the secret police webpage exposed |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sexism-swastikas-and-suspenders-the-secret-police-webpage-exposed-mt6c5wc7j2q |access-date=2023-04-03|date=6 February 2014 |issn=0140-0460))</ref>

== Current owner ==
Grosvenor Hall was bought by Kingswood Learning and Leisure Ltd (part of Inspiring Learning) in 2010 and turned into an outdoor education and adventure centre which ((as of|2023)) remains open.<ref name="Kingswood">((cite web|url=https://www.kingswood.co.uk/locations/grosvenor-hall/|title=Grosvenor Hall, Ashford, Kent|website=Kingswood|publisher=Kingswood|accessdate=2009-08-28))</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Kent]]
[[Category:Police training colleges in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Defunct universities and colleges in England]]
[[Category:Ashford, Kent]]

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