St Annes College Grammar School, St Annes on Sea

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234305

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NST20110816003

Title

St Annes College Grammar School, St Annes on Sea

Place

St Annes on Sea

General notes

Originally St Annes Ladies College, the school was......" .... founded by the Misses Frances & Lilly Oldfield about 1882 in Middlewich, Cheshire, it became established in 1886 when it moved to Newton Hall. In 1888, it made the 50-mile move to St.Annes.

At one stage, housed at Claremont, South Promenade, it is listed as being in St.Annes Road West ...... in 1895. A purpose-built school was erected on Clifton Drive c1898 .... and it was named St.Annes College for Girls. It is the only one of the private schools which still exists (in St Annes)"

From the www.amounderness.co.uk web site 16/08/2011

Although built c.1898 the school was actually opened in 1902. The 1911 Census shows that May Frances and Eliza (presumably Lilly) Annie Oldfield were the joint heads of the school. Boarders came from across the country but principally Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire.

At one stage the pupils at the school would have had their own chairs with name inscribed on the back and some of the older furniture is still used in the school. The name Alero Eboh is on the back of this chair. She was at the school in 1963 when she was Head Boarder and winner of the Corner Cup.

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