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Derby Diocesan College for the Training of School Mistresses was opened in 1851 in a formidable building in Uttoxeter Road, and its regime was equally forbidding. The young women who applied to study at this austere establishment had to undergo a rigorous entrance interview before being accepted, and a century later nothing much had changed.

Bright nail varnish was banned and the girl students were locked in at dances so there was no hankey pankey. Yet Brenda Kellock and Pat Fitton have nothing but fond memories of their time at the Church of England College. Read their account of the rigid discipline there and other people’s recollections of their schooldays, including the games that children used to play.







 

Education

'How can starvation strike in such a town as Derby?'

IN 1838, local businessman Herbert Mountford Holmes offered to help out with the running of St Peter's Sunday school following the resignation of its superintendent.

His account of his association with the school makes fascinating reading and sheds light on the...

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Joanna's photographic bid for Homelands memories

learning:  Joanna Bradshaw, nee Dyer, is second from the right, on the front row, in this picture of prefects taken in 1966.

I ATTENDED Firs Estate School in the 1950s before passing my 11-plus exam and going to Homelands Grammar School from 1959 until 1966. I have sent in...

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Plea for Hopwell Hall school photos

I AM trying to find any photographs or information about Hopwell Hall Boys School, near Ockbrook, from between 1960 and the present day. I would like...

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Were you Laurie's mystery caller? Is this your photo?

query:   Normanton Rovers 1949-1950. Back, from left: Ken Hamilton, Frank Proctor, Bill Lawrence, Ken Riddings, Bill Grenville, Gordon Haslam and ? Blower. Front: Roy Rodgers, Bruce Byard, Roy Morton, Lol Brooks and Reg Horsley.

IN October last year, Bygones very kindly reproduced my comments and photographs from my years at Bemrose School in the 1940s. The letters I have...

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'Show and tell' pupil came out with gun and Nazi flag

SURPRISE:  Harvest Festival celebrations in Miss Bennett's classroom at Allen Street Infants School in the early 1950s.

I THOROUGHLY enjoyed reading Mike Marwood's recollections of his time as a GPO telegram boy. It made me wonder if it was he who had come into our...

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School with elite group of talented young artists

School with elite group of talented young artists

AT the age of 13, Annette Millett parted with all the friends she had made during her formative years at Dale Infants and then Hastings Street schools...

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Markeaton Girls' School remembered

​Yvonne Osborne, of Mackworth, was a pupil at Markeaton Girls' School from 1956-60. She writes: “I loved it. The teachers were so helpful....

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Youth clubs: Youth clubs to '50s kids were a godsend

​Back in the 1950s, Derby was bristling with youth clubs. Marilyn Clampitt had a choice of at least three within walking distance of her home in...

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Wonderful teachers planted a desire to succeed in life

The teaching staff at Spondon House School in the late 40s/early 50s. They were an inspiration, according to one of their many students.

​Terry Mathers moved to Spondon House School with some trepidation in 1949 as it had a reputation for the being the “last resort”...

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Wirksworth, JW Beeson's Excelsior School

A chart of the solar system by John Dean aged 13, at Mr J W Beeson's Excelsior Schools, Wirksworth, Christmas 1866

​John DEAN was only 13 when he completed this remarkable "Chart of the Solar System" in 1866. He was a pupil at "J.W.Beeson's Excelsior Schools"...

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