The Bar End Playing Field, about a mile from the College, purchased in 1935 provided an outlet for energetic students as this cricket match with the rugby posts beyond shows. It was turned over to pasture during the Second War and needed much reclamation thereafter. Today the all-weather track and sports field, the latter a … Continue reading Diamond Jubilee Exhibition (A look Back) Part 5

May 1959. Almost the last Summer of the all-male College. Much of the Victorian detail survives, but the ivy has not reappeared or been replaced. May 1959. Men stroll past the 1930 three-classroom block, also called the #Lecture Loggia' west of the main building where the Herbert Jerman Building now stands. c 1976, two Art … Continue reading Diamond Jubilee Exhibition (A look Back) Part 4

The Coronation, June 1953. King Alfred's men in cricket whites (and boaters) bear the Church of England Training Colleges banner past the guildhall in the celebratory procession. "Dickie's Dragon" honoured Principal Dickinson - in the Coronation Procession representing King Alfred's. Another picture of the procession in this collection shows the rural nature of the Sparkford … Continue reading Diamond Jubilee Exhibition (A look Back) Part 3

One of the other images showed the modern map of the university with the text below: 1952-2012 "Our sixty-year Jubilee story since the Accession in 1952 starts here. Taking a broadly chronological approach depending on when the sites were acquired and/or developed we began with the 1862 building and contrasted it with the aerial photographs … Continue reading Diamond Jubilee Exhibition (A look Back) Part 2