Teachers in training as Great War finally comes to an end
WE turn the clock back just over a century to bring you these fine photographs.
Anyone who trained as a teacher in Dudley may well recognise the setting – Dudley Training College at Eve Hill, and the young women pictured were all residents of the campus’s South Hostel. The helpful words were possibly painted onto the stone finials just for the photograph.
The main picture, above, shows students of the 1918-20 intake, just after the end of the First World War. We have no
names for them, but we do for those in the smaller picture, below left.
On the back of this one, in pencil, are the words ‘Reunion, 1921’, and the following names: Margaret, Jane, Edith Abbott, Dot Tyson and Marian Gray.
The college, which trained many generations of teachers throughout most of the twentieth century, was expanded over time, and became part of Wolverhampton Polytechnic in the 1980s; eventually it housed the Humanities Department of Wolverhampton University. Sadly, all of its buildings, including the original ones shown here, were demolished in the early 21st century.