Talk:Winstanley College

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[edit] Jon Culshaw

Jon Culshaw went to John Rigby, I doubt he went to both.

I removed his name from the article, as you say he went to John Rigby college and not Winstanley. Darksun 11:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I know nothing where Culshaw went, but Winstanley (as Upholland Grammar) and possibly John Rigby were previously grammar schools at one time or another. This means he could conceivably have gone to both, one as a grammar school and the other as a college?

[edit] Mathematics Department

Anyone who regards a bias to the mathematics department of this college as unfair is a fool, and clearly has never had the honour to be a student of it.

[edit] Notable Students

Please don't remove information on the past students.

Steven Gaskell attained a first at Oxford University, and Rob Taylor who was awarded a Professorship, for his work in Quantum Computing. -This should be removed; not only is it irrelevant, but incorrect. Neither of these students have even completed their undergraduate courses yet.

[edit] Removed

Sir Steven Gaskell is a students' myth/joke. The only google result for Sir Steven Gaskell is this very page. Unusual for a knighthood!

[edit] Deletion of seperate Article

I realy do think a large sixth form college deseves its own artcle, other such places have their own. It also takes up more than half of the article for billinge with winstanley.

[edit] Location

The college is located on Winstanley Road in the Billinge Higher End area of Wigan. Not in the Orrell area. Also its county is Greater Manchester not Lancashire.

  • See your optician, get new specs.. Winstanley College is connected, by development, to Orrell. There are houses from Orrell on both sides of the road, then the college, then several dozen hectares of open farmland. This probably explains why the college is in Orrell council ward.