Buxton College

Buxton College was a boys' grammar school in Buxton, Derbyshire.

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History

The school was founded in the 16th century and moved to a new building in 1881. The new building was by William Pollard of Manchester. It became a County Grammar school in 1923/4. It had a boarding house.

It later merged with the comprehensive, giving it two campuses, at Kent's Bank (former site of Kent's Bank Secondary Modern Boys School), and College Road (former site of Buxton College). It merged with the local girls' school in 1990; this was the former Cavendish Grammar School on Corbar Road and Silverland Secondary Modern School for Girls on Peveril Road - these two school sites are now housing estates. It formed Buxton Community School at the College Road campus. [1]

Current use

The Kent's Bank site became the site for Buxton Library. Former pupils of the school denote themselves as Old Buxtonians.

See also

Former pupils

References

  1. ^ HICKLING, Reginald Hugh, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 13 Dec 2008
  2. ^ [HODGKINS, David John’, Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 accessed 13 Dec 2008
  3. ^ [‘RADFORD, Edmund Ashworth’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 13 Dec 2008
  4. ^ WRIGHT, Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 13 Dec 2008
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