The Grange boarding school for girls was opened in about 1900. It was commandeered in 1940 as a school for Belgian refugee boys in World War II. In 1945 it reverted to being the girls' school for a year. The building was vacant from 1949 until it was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by new houses. The original gate posts are still standing ...

2016年11月10日 · These seven buildings are just a selection of notable structures that have vanished from the landscape altogether. Cavendish Girl’s School, Corbar Road. For nearly 300 years, Buxton had segregated comprehensive schools. The boys went to Buxton College on College Road, now the co-educational Community School.

These seven buildings are just a selection of notable structures that have vanished from the landscape altogether. Cavendish Girl’s School, Corbar Road. For nearly 300 years, Buxton had segregated comprehensive schools. The boys went to Buxton College on College Road, now the co-educational Community School.

In the fall of 1900 at a cost of $600, the N.C. Watson School was built on the Gillette Road in the village of Chicopee in Buxton, adjacent to the site of the first school made of brick, which was condemned for sanitary reasons and demolished in the spring1900.

2021年3月20日 · The site gradually became Buxton Community School in the 1990s, expanding on the original construction shown in these photographs and uniting girls and boys. Board seemed particularly keen to immortalise the headmaster.

2022年12月29日 · Photos have revealed what the inside of an empty school in a 114-year-old building looks like today. Northwood House, on Corbar Road, Buxton, was completed in 1908 as a private home.

One of our oldest school photographs is from Fairfield Endowed School in 1910, showing three rows of smartly attired young gentlemen, some of whom are feasibly someone’s ancestor. They don’t look particularly happy but over a hundred years ago, smiling for photographs had yet to become a thing.

The original school building was probably in Buxton next to St Anne's Anglican Church on Bath Road. The school was placed in chancery between 1791 and 1816 and reopened in the, disused, St Anne's Church.

The school itself had been founded in 1674 and had been based within the town; however in 1876 the Charity Commissioners sanctioned a scheme for the reconstitution of the school and the...

Benjamin Pratt’s school is going to be bulldozed to make room for an amusement park—a dream come true or a nightmare? Jill starts digging for answers. They find things that the people with money and power don’t want them to see. Could the history hidden within an …