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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.

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• 1960s: A schoolboy crush - part 2

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• Ashover: History project

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• Belper: The Herbert Strutt School
• Bemrose Grammar School - A talented lot of 'Bucket Bangers'
• Bemrose Grammar School: A 1960s summer spent playing pitch and putt at Markeaton park

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• College move recalls pain and a visitor set for fame

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• Derby Boys' Grammar School
• Derby Central School for Boys
• Derby College of F.E: Princess Diana's 1985 visit
• Derby Diocesan College: Girl students were locked in at dances so there was no hankey pankey
• Derby School - The Lost Generation!
• Derwent Schools

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• Education
• Enjoyable days at Spondon House School in the 1940s

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• Fond memories of wartime schooldays at Darley Hall

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• Gayton Junior School

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• Happy junior school memories of mashed swede, blue knickers and playground games
• Happy memories of Darley Abbey village school
• Hargrave House School became Hotel International

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• Headline History
• Home Economics: Advice to pamper men in a 50s-style

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• John Port Grammar School: A Grammar for just nine years
• John Port was not the only co-ed grammar

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• Kedleston Road School memories

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• Longland, Jack: Director of Education

M

• Mackworth School: School taught us to read learn and inwardly digest
• Markeaton Girls’ School, Derby
• Matlock county Junior School

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• Nottingham Road School, Derby

P

• Parkfield Cedars Grammar school
• Pastures Hill School: School choir made a record
• Pioneering farming college that started with handful of students

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• Repton School
• Repton School days straight out of the pages of Billy Bunter
• Repton through the eyes of a "village urchin"
• Repton: Basil Rathbone's old school house is given a 21st century revamp
• Ridgeway Infant School
• Royal School for the Deaf
• Royal School for the Deaf welcomes the Queen

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• Royal School for the Deaf: Duchess makes a private visit

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• Spondon House School: Praise for school which gave education for life
• St James' Church Boys' School
• Students escaped women's rooms through wardrobes
• Stunning painting displays city's old elegance

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• Teachers and parents produce book to mark the opening of new primary school
• The story behind those giant snowballs
• Tomlinson, Fred - popular lecturer known as ‘Mr T’ by students
• Twin brothers who both overcame 11-plus failure

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• University of Derby
• University of Derby - A Guide to its Coat of Arms

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• Wartime memories of St James's School, Derby
• Why you should never offer to be 'it' in a prewar playground game of baste the bear
• Willington School remembered
• Willington School's Ian Ross-Harpur
• Wirksworth, JW Beeson's Excelsior School
• Wonderful teachers planted a desire to succeed in life

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