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Building of the College begun in 1868 and was completed five years later as the flagship independent boarding school of the midlands. The school is set in a site of more than one hundred acres of rolling Staffordshire countryside, close to the Derbyshire border. According to Pevsner, the building is Victorian Gothic "with sweeping composition" and is built on an 'H' principle with longer wings to the back and shorter to the front of school.
XRE305S was later re-registered 422AKN, and is seen in later livery at Denstone College prior to starting a private hire. The re-introduction of the rising sun was a pleasing touch.
LAB101T, a Leopard PSU5, came from Everton's of Droitwich in 1982 as a 32 seater with toilet. It was re-seated to 55 in 1983 and was re-registered AEH560A in 1986. The location is Denstone College.
Still going after all this time, and back where it began, also!! Starting with the company in July 2001 on Rainbow 4, the Excels lasted on there for just over five years, before being sent up north to what was the Dove Holes garage (now High Peak) for Skyline 199 between Buxton, Stockport and Manchester Airport. In 2010, the Skyline 199 was upgraded to Scanias, with the Excels returning South. This one ended up being stabled in Uttoxeter, as it as branded for the 409, which ran between Ashbourne, Denstone and Uttoxeter before being merged with The One into Swift and receiving yet another coat of paint!! When the Volvos took over the Swift route in the Summer of 2011, the three Excels were sent to Derby with 264 used as Skybus briefly (in Kinchbus Skylink base yellow [cheers Oneman]) before being painted into standard Trent Barton livery. Since then it has moved back home.
264 puts in a days graft on the Rushcliffe Greens Bingham Express service to Bingham direct along the A52.
The wide-ranging bus network serving the exclusive Denstone College operates - much like the college itself - on Saturdays as well as during the week. Notts & Derby's former Edwards and Taf Valley ADL Enviro 200 YX12DHY (51) is seen here at Quixhill as it nears the end of the 3 from Allestree, Belper, and Ashbourne. The structure to the left is Quixhill Gate which is the eastern entrance to Alton Towers, though nowadays rarely used.
A15 DHC (ex YIL 1112, B14 JCT, F648 EET, JIL 3716, F648 EET)
Bova Futura FHD12 C49FT
DH Cars, Denstone, Staffordshire
Stratford-upon-Avon, 2 August 2006
New to Wilfreda-Beehive, Adwick-le-Street
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no publisher's name. The card has a divided back.
Lancing College
Lancing College is an independent day and boarding school. The school is located in West Sussex, east of Worthing near the village of Lancing, on the south coast of England.
Lancing College was founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard, and educates circa 600 pupils between the ages of 13 and 18; the co-educational ratio is c. 60:40 boys to girls. Girls were admitted beginning in 1971.
The first co-ed, Saints’ House, was established in September 2018, bringing the total number of Houses to 10. There are 5 male houses (Gibbs, School, Teme, Heads, Seconds) and 4 female houses (Fields, Sankeys, Manor, Handford).
The college is situated on a hill which is part of the South Downs, and the campus dominates the local landscape. The college overlooks the River Adur, and the Ladywell Stream, a holy well or sacred stream within the College grounds, has pre-Christian significance.
Woodard's aim was:
"To provide education based on sound
principle and sound knowledge, firmly
grounded in the Christian faith, and the
discipline of the prefect's cane".
Lancing was the first of a family of more than 30 schools founded by Woodard. Other schools include Ardingly College, Bloxham School, The Cathedral School, Denstone College, and Ellesmere College.
65% of pupils are either full or weekly boarders, at a cost of £37,065 per year; The rest are day pupils, at a cost of £25,320 per year (2023).
The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school is dominated by a Gothic revival chapel, and follows a high church Anglican tradition.
The College of St. Mary and St. Nicolas (as it was originally named) was intended for the sons of upper middle class and professional men; in time this became Lancing College, moving to its present site in 1857.
The school buildings of the 1850's were designed by the architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter, with later ones by John William Simpson.
In 2003, Lancing College was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.
Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000, and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.
Lancing College Chapel
The foundation stone of the college chapel was laid in 1868, but the chapel itself was not finished in Woodard's lifetime. It stands at about 50 metres (with foundations going down 20 metres into the ground), but the original plans called for a tower at the west end which would raise the height to 100 metres.
The apex of the vaulting rises to 27.4 m (90 ft). It was designed by R. H. Carpenter and William Slater, and is built of Sussex sandstone from Scaynes Hill.
The chapel was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas in 1911, although the college worshipped in the finished crypt from 1875. St. Nicholas is the patron saint of children.
Inside can be found, among other things, the tomb of the founder, three organs, and a rose window designed by Stephen Dykes Bower, completed in 1977, and the largest rose window in England, being 32 ft in diameter.
People acknowledge it to be the largest school chapel in the world, despite the fact that there appears to be no study or survey publicly available that can confirm that.
The eastern organ is a two-manual mechanical organ built by the Danish firm Frobenius; it was installed and voiced in situ in 1986. That year also marked the completion of the rebuild of the four-manual Walker organ at the west end of the chapel – both of which were showcased in the opening concert by the American organ virtuoso, Carlo Curley.
A stained-glass window was commissioned in memory of Trevor Huddleston OL, and consecrated by Desmond Tutu on the 22nd. May 2007. Huddleston, a former pupil of the college, became an Anglican bishop and anti-apartheid activist.
The unfinished west end of the chapel, which had remained bricked up since 1978 (bricks replaced the previous corrugated iron), was completed in the summer of 2021 with the addition of an open three-arched porch designed by Michael Drury.
The chapel was closed to visitors during the coronavirus pandemic and, subsequently, during the completion of the west end porch and refurbishment work on the school kitchens opposite, reopening to the public on the 25th. April 2022.
Lancing College Campus in WWII
During World War II, students were evacuated to Downton Castle in Herefordshire. Both the main college and the prep school buildings were requisitioned by the Admiralty, and became part of the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS King Alfred.
Notable Alumni of Lancing College
-- George Warner Allen (1916–1988), artist of the Neo-Romantic school.
-- Sir Derek Alun-Jones (1933–2004), Chairman of Ferranti (1982–1990).
-- George Baker (1931–2011), actor best known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.
-- Thomas Southey Baker (1848–1902), amateur athlete who was on the winning crew that won The Boat Race in 1869 and played for England in the fourth unofficial football match against Scotland in November 1871.
-- Peter Ball (1932-2019), suffragan Bishop of Lewes (1977–1992) and Bishop of Gloucester (1992–1993), convicted sex offender.
-- David Bedford (1937–2011), composer and musician, worked with (among others) Mike Oldfield, orchestrating Tubular Bells.
-- Sinclair Beecham (born 1958), co-founder of Pret a Manger.
-- Sir John Gilbert Newton Brown (1916–2003), publisher of the Oxford University Press (1956–1980).
-- Sir Roy Calne (born 1930), pioneer of liver transplantation.
-- Giles Cooper (1918–1966), radio dramatist, injured in The Spanish Civil War, later working with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Kenneth Williams and Harold Pinter and dramatised the works of John Wyndham, Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
-- Col. Andrew Croft (1906—1998), explorer and member of the Special Operations Executive.
-- Sir Michael Darrington (born 1942), Managing Director of Greggs.
-- Jack Herbert Driberg (1888-1946), anthropologist.
-- Col. St. George Corbet Gore (1849–1913), Surveyor General of India (1899–1904).
-- Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint (born 1948), Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc (2006–2010), Minister of State for Trade and Investment (2011–2013).
-- Brodrick Haldane (1912–1996), art photographer whom Sir Cecil Beaton described as the founder of modern society photography.
-- Alex Horne (born 1978), comedian.
-- H.S.H. Maj. Prince George G. Imeretinsky (1897–1972), Grenadier Guards and Royal Flying Corps Officer.
-- Elphinstone Jackson (1868–1945), England footballer and co-founder of the Indian Football Association.
-- Capt. John Letts (1897–1918), First World War flying ace.
-- Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, 2nd. Baron Amulree (1900–1983), physician and geriatrician.
-- Sir Max Mallowan (1904–1978), archaeologist and scholar; British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, Mesopotamian civilization and the heritage of Nineveh.
-- Dunlop Manners (1916–1994), first-class cricketer.
-- Sholto Marcon (1890–1959), England field hockey player, gold medallist at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
-- Richard Mason (explorer) (1935-1961), last British person to have been killed by uncontacted peoples in the Amazon.
-- Sir Peter Pears (1910–1986), tenor, associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner.
-- Sqn. Ldr./Lt. Cdr. Jeffrey Quill (1913–1996), Spitfire test pilot.
-- David Reindorp (born 1952), vicar of Chelsea Old Church, Chaplain to the Honourable Artillery Company and to the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers.
-- Sir Tim Rice (born 1944), lyricist, best known for his work with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita.
-- Tom Sharpe (1928-2013), novelist.
-- Jeremy Sinden (1950–1996), actor in Chariots of Fire and Brideshead Revisited.
-- Jamie Theakston (born 1970), TV and radio presenter.
-- Thomas Percy Henry Touchet-Jesson, 23rd. Baron Audley (1913–1963), soldier, playwright.
-- AVM Sir Stanley Vincent (1897–1976), Air Officer Commanding No. 13 Group (1943–1944), Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group (1948–1950), only RAF pilot to shoot down the enemy in both world wars.
-- Gino Watkins (1907–1932), Arctic explorer.
-- Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), novelist.
-- John Williams (1903–1983), actor, appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Columbo, and Mission: Impossible.
-- John Dover Wilson (1881–1969), literary critic; professor and scholar of Renaissance drama, focusing particularly on the work of William Shakespeare.
-- Rear Admiral Sir Robert Woodard (born 1939), Commander of the Royal Yacht Britannia (1985–1990).
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200
Albert Street, Derby
Between my school duties on Denstone College 'route 3' on 3rd September 2025, I was spare and got asked to cover the 08:55 Link 2. I chose to take 51 for this seeing as it was already set up for me to drive, and it is seen on Albert Street in Derby ready to commence service.
1987 Bedford TL1300 turbo beavertail.
In the livery of Alan Ratcliffe of Denstone, Staffordshire (classic and vintage vehicles).
Thank you John !!
cf this other "Football Colours of Some Of Our Public Schools" 1925 ? www.flickr.com/photos/rugby_pioneers/1380582265/
ABINGDON, BERKHAMSTEAD, BEAUMONT, BEDFORD MODERN, BLUNDELL'S, BRADFORD G.S., CHRIST BRECON, BRADFIELD, BRISTOL GRAM., BROMSGROVE, CARDIFF HIGH, CARLISLE, CAMPBELL, CITY OF LONDON, DARTMOUTH R.N.C., DENSTONE, DOLLAR, DURHAM, EMMANUEL, EPSOM, EDINBURGH ACAD., EDINBURGH R.H.S.,FELSTED GIGGLESWICK, GLASGOW H.S., K.C.S. WIMBLEDON, KING EDWARD'S, KING'S CANTERBURY, LIVERPOOL, MONKTON COMBE, MANCHESTER GRAMMER, OAKHAM, OUNDLE, READING, ST. BEES, ST. PETERS, STONYHURST, SUTTON VALENCE, TAUNTON, TRENT, UNIV. COL. SCH., WATSON'S, WHITGIFT.
FJ17 PYH
2017 Mercedes-Benz Actros 2551LS
Swinson Transport, Denstone, Staffordshire
Towcester, 20 October 2020
Owner Luke S. Kahng of LSK121 Oral Prosthetics operates one of the most successful and innovative dental labs outside of Chicago. Kahng bought his first Vida from EnvisionTEC in the fall of 2016, followed quickly by EnvisionTEC’s Vector Hi-Res 3SP. When it comes to EnvisionTEC’s 3D printing technology, LSK121 uses:
• the Perfactory Vida to print night guards and other appliances that can be printed in E-Guard, an FDA-approved crystal clear biocompatible material.
• the Vector Hi-Res 3SP, which he uses to 3D print dental models and even full jaws in E-Denstone Peach.
LSK 121 Oral Prosthetics
Vector Hi-Res 3SP
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Vida
Denstone College (Staffordshire), Christopher Whall. The Mothers' Window given partly by mothers in 1916 who had lost their sons in the Great War. In the middle the Holy Mother (motherhood) walking on flowers (joy) and thorns (sorrow); the sword has pierced her heart (bereavement) and she has gathered other children to follow the sons' example, one even in khaki.
On the left, a son killed in battle his crown of thorns by his side and tended by angels. On the right his death gives victory, sword in hand and bearing 7 stars, riding a white horse as he goes to conquer; the crown of thorns on his helmet is starting to blossom. In the tracery angels hold a crown, symbolic of the reward of the mothers' sacrifice and they gaze down on the perfect mother.
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200
Rolls Royce Ranesway, Derby
My shift on 15th September 2025 found me on our Denstone College run, but I was asked to cover a couple of trips on Rolls Royce 5 in the afternoon. With Denstone requiring a belted vehicle, 51 was my steed for this and it is seen at Raynesway.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by Photonews of Brighton. The image is a glossy real photograph, and the card has a divided back.
Lancing College
Lancing College is an independent day and boarding school. The school is located in West Sussex, east of Worthing near the village of Lancing, on the south coast of England.
Lancing College was founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard, and educates circa 600 pupils between the ages of 13 and 18; the co-educational ratio is c. 60:40 boys to girls. Girls were admitted beginning in 1971.
The first co-ed, Saints’ House, was established in September 2018, bringing the total number of Houses to 10. There are 5 male houses (Gibbs, School, Teme, Heads, Seconds) and 4 female houses (Fields, Sankeys, Manor, Handford).
The college is situated on a hill which is part of the South Downs, and the campus dominates the local landscape. The college overlooks the River Adur, and the Ladywell Stream, a holy well or sacred stream within the College grounds, has pre-Christian significance.
Woodard's aim was:
"To provide education based on sound
principle and sound knowledge, firmly
grounded in the Christian faith, and the
discipline of the prefect's cane".
Lancing was the first of a family of more than 30 schools founded by Woodard. Other schools include Ardingly College, Bloxham School, The Cathedral School, Denstone College, and Ellesmere College.
65% of pupils are either full or weekly boarders, at a cost of £37,065 per year; The rest are day pupils, at a cost of £25,320 per year (2023).
The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school is dominated by a Gothic revival chapel, and follows a high church Anglican tradition.
The College of St. Mary and St. Nicolas (as it was originally named) was intended for the sons of upper middle class and professional men; in time this became Lancing College, moving to its present site in 1857.
The school buildings of the 1850's were designed by the architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter, with later ones by John William Simpson.
In 2003, Lancing College was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.
Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000, and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.
Lancing College Chapel
The foundation stone of the college chapel was laid in 1868, but the chapel itself was not finished in Woodard's lifetime. It stands at about 50 metres (with foundations going down 20 metres into the ground), but the original plans called for a tower at the west end which would raise the height to 100 metres.
The apex of the vaulting rises to 27.4 m (90 ft). It was designed by R. H. Carpenter and William Slater, and is built of Sussex sandstone from Scaynes Hill.
The chapel was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas in 1911, although the college worshipped in the finished crypt from 1875. St. Nicholas is the patron saint of children.
Inside can be found, among other things, the tomb of the founder, three organs, and a rose window designed by Stephen Dykes Bower, completed in 1977, and the largest rose window in England, being 32 ft in diameter.
People acknowledge it to be the largest school chapel in the world, despite the fact that there appears to be no study or survey publicly available that can confirm that.
The eastern organ is a two-manual mechanical organ built by the Danish firm Frobenius; it was installed and voiced in situ in 1986. That year also marked the completion of the rebuild of the four-manual Walker organ at the west end of the chapel – both of which were showcased in the opening concert by the American organ virtuoso, Carlo Curley.
A stained-glass window was commissioned in memory of Trevor Huddleston OL, and consecrated by Desmond Tutu on the 22nd. May 2007. Huddleston, a former pupil of the college, became an Anglican bishop and anti-apartheid activist.
The unfinished west end of the chapel, which had remained bricked up since 1978 (bricks replaced the previous corrugated iron), was completed in the summer of 2021 with the addition of an open three-arched porch designed by Michael Drury.
The chapel was closed to visitors during the coronavirus pandemic and, subsequently, during the completion of the west end porch and refurbishment work on the school kitchens opposite, reopening to the public on the 25th. April 2022.
Lancing College Campus in WWII
During World War II, students were evacuated to Downton Castle in Herefordshire. Both the main college and the prep school buildings were requisitioned by the Admiralty, and became part of the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS King Alfred.
Notable Alumni of Lancing College
-- George Warner Allen (1916–1988), artist of the Neo-Romantic school.
-- Sir Derek Alun-Jones (1933–2004), Chairman of Ferranti (1982–1990).
-- George Baker (1931–2011), actor best known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.
-- Thomas Southey Baker (1848–1902), amateur athlete who was on the winning crew that won The Boat Race in 1869 and played for England in the fourth unofficial football match against Scotland in November 1871.
-- Peter Ball (1932-2019), suffragan Bishop of Lewes (1977–1992) and Bishop of Gloucester (1992–1993), convicted sex offender.
-- David Bedford (1937–2011), composer and musician, worked with (among others) Mike Oldfield, orchestrating Tubular Bells.
-- Sinclair Beecham (born 1958), co-founder of Pret a Manger.
-- Sir John Gilbert Newton Brown (1916–2003), publisher of the Oxford University Press (1956–1980).
-- Sir Roy Calne (born 1930), pioneer of liver transplantation.
-- Giles Cooper (1918–1966), radio dramatist, injured in The Spanish Civil War, later working with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Kenneth Williams and Harold Pinter and dramatised the works of John Wyndham, Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
-- Col. Andrew Croft (1906—1998), explorer and member of the Special Operations Executive.
-- Sir Michael Darrington (born 1942), Managing Director of Greggs.
-- Jack Herbert Driberg (1888-1946), anthropologist.
-- Col. St. George Corbet Gore (1849–1913), Surveyor General of India (1899–1904).
-- Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint (born 1948), Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc (2006–2010), Minister of State for Trade and Investment (2011–2013).
-- Brodrick Haldane (1912–1996), art photographer whom Sir Cecil Beaton described as the founder of modern society photography.
-- Alex Horne (born 1978), comedian.
-- H.S.H. Maj. Prince George G. Imeretinsky (1897–1972), Grenadier Guards and Royal Flying Corps Officer.
-- Elphinstone Jackson (1868–1945), England footballer and co-founder of the Indian Football Association.
-- Capt. John Letts (1897–1918), First World War flying ace.
-- Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, 2nd. Baron Amulree (1900–1983), physician and geriatrician.
-- Sir Max Mallowan (1904–1978), archaeologist and scholar; British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, Mesopotamian civilization and the heritage of Nineveh.
-- Dunlop Manners (1916–1994), first-class cricketer.
-- Sholto Marcon (1890–1959), England field hockey player, gold medallist at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
-- Richard Mason (explorer) (1935-1961), last British person to have been killed by uncontacted peoples in the Amazon.
-- Sir Peter Pears (1910–1986), tenor, associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner.
-- Sqn. Ldr./Lt. Cdr. Jeffrey Quill (1913–1996), Spitfire test pilot.
-- David Reindorp (born 1952), vicar of Chelsea Old Church, Chaplain to the Honourable Artillery Company and to the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers.
-- Sir Tim Rice (born 1944), lyricist, best known for his work with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita.
-- Tom Sharpe (1928-2013), novelist.
-- Jeremy Sinden (1950–1996), actor in Chariots of Fire and Brideshead Revisited.
-- Jamie Theakston (born 1970), TV and radio presenter.
-- Thomas Percy Henry Touchet-Jesson, 23rd. Baron Audley (1913–1963), soldier, playwright.
-- AVM Sir Stanley Vincent (1897–1976), Air Officer Commanding No. 13 Group (1943–1944), Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group (1948–1950), only RAF pilot to shoot down the enemy in both world wars.
-- Gino Watkins (1907–1932), Arctic explorer.
-- Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), novelist.
-- John Williams (1903–1983), actor, appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Columbo, and Mission: Impossible.
-- John Dover Wilson (1881–1969), literary critic; professor and scholar of Renaissance drama, focusing particularly on the work of William Shakespeare.
-- Rear Admiral Sir Robert Woodard (born 1939), Commander of the Royal Yacht Britannia (1985–1990).
The peach colored E-Denstone creates highly accurate models with removable dies similar to the standard gypsum color. The matte finish allows models to be scanned accurately for verification purposes and the high viscosity of the formula produces superior details and surface finish. The pictured models were printed on the 3Dent 3SP.
E-Denstone
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E-Partial material was developed for creating wax-like partial dentures for direct investment casting in semi precious metals. E-Partial material maintains flexural strength to ensure clasp flex without breakage. The stiffness of E-Partial allows for production of a very hard retention grid and super tight thin clasps to deliver a metal partial with the perfect fit every time.
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REVILL, WALTER EDWARD
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Hertfordshire Regiment
Age: 23
Date of Death: 23/07/1916
Service No: 266554
Additional information: Son of Charles and Sarah Revill; husband of Sarah Ann Revill, of 37, West Rd., Sawbridgeworth, Herts.
Cemetery: CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
Walter Richardson
ROBERTSON, ARTHUR DOUGLAS
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Unit Text: 1st/9th Bn.
Date of Death: 14/08/1916
Service No: 3850
Cemetery: TOTTENHAM CEMETERY
SEARCH , Albert George
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Unit Text: 16th Coy.
Date of Death: 25/09/1916
Service No: 10600
Cemetery: GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Frederick Stone
Ernest James Storey
STUART, Kenneth Ernald
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Welsh Regiment
Unit Text: 13th Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 27/08/1918
Service No: 56116
Additional information: Son of Montrose and Ellen Stuart, of Hatfield Heath, Harlow, Essex. Born at Denstone, Staffs.
Cemetery: FIENVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Sydney James Trott
?TROTT
Initials: S J
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 23/09/1917
Service No: 201131
Additional information: Son of G. and F. Trott, of Barnstaple, Devon; husband of Clara Trott, of London.
Cemetery: GREVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Arthur Whybrow
Horace George Cooper
The brick works at Witton Hall and on Manchester Road, Northwich, were eventually run by Jabez Thompson (1838-1911). Jabez produced common, fine and moulded bricks and terracotta, providing bricks for the Victorian architect, John Douglas. All the fine and moulded bricks are stamped and have been identified at demolition sites across the North West. He also specialised in ornamental pieces and panels. The façades of Moseley Road Swimming Baths, Birmingham and the Sanatorium at Denstone College, Uttoxeter are by him, as is a terra-cotta alto reredos of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper at St. Michael and All Saints Church, Little Leigh, near Northwich.
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC
Palm Court Island, Allestree
When not required on 'Unibus' work, the pair of E200's branded for these routes can be found elsewhere on the N&D network, and I ended up with 271 on 2nd September 2025 for a trip to Denstone College just outside Uttoxeter on 'route 3', a private contract for the school. It is seen at Palm Court Island prior to heading over the roundabout to commence service.
BJ54 RZE
Ford Transit M16
Express Travel, Aylesbury
Buckingham, 23 July 2014
New to Denstone College
Express Travel is one of the Aylesbury-area taxi firms to have expanded into PSV operation in recent years and the fleet now includes a couple of full-size coaches for school work. This anonymous white Transit was found parked in Buckingham one evening.
British postcard by Ross Verlag Foreign, no. 3932/1. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Handsome English actor Ralph Forbes (1904 – 1951) started his film career in the British cinema before he became a Hollywood star of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Later he turned into a noted Broadway actor.
Ralph Forbes Taylor was born in London, England in 1904 (some sources say 1896). He was the son of E.J. Taylor and actress Mary Forbes and brother of actress Brenda Forbes. He met with an accident on the football field at Denstone College, Staffordshire that resulted in a scar on his cheek. According to William McPeak at IMDb, Forbes had other ideas than the family wish for him to seek a career in law or the navy. He became interested in acting and began stage work in England. By 1917, he had come to the US to get his feet wet in the film medium with his first silent that year. But he returned to the UK to work in the early British film industry. His first British film was the drama The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's (1921, A.E. Coleby). He then appeared in A Lowland Cinderella (1922, Sidney Morgan), a modern version of the Cinderella Fairy tale with Joan Morgan as the vulnerable Hester Stirling, who must overcome the evil schemes of a Dr Torpican to find true love. He then appeared opposite Alma Taylor in the successful romance Comin' Thro the Rye (1923, Cecil M. Hepworth). The following year he co-starred with Betty Balfour and Stewart Rome in the war drama Réveille (1924, George Pearson). In Sweden he appeared in the comedy Charleys tant/Charley’s Aunt (1926, Elis Ellis). In 1926, he joined fellow expatriate and A-list star Ronald Colman to play younger brother John in the first Hollywood rendering of Beau Geste (1926, Herbert Brenon). It became Paramount's biggest hit of 1926. The following years, Forbes would work with some familiar names: with Lon Chaney in Mr. Wu (1927, William Nigh), Lillian Gish in The Enemy (1927, Fred Niblo), Norma Shearer in The Latest from Paris (1928, Sam Wood), Dolores del Rio in The Trail of '98 (1928, Clarence Brown), and with John Gilbert in The Masks of the Devil (1928, Victor Sjöström). Forbes’ handsome features and bright blues eyes gave him an intense look that suited numerous a series of dinner-jacketed leading roles.
Ralph Forbes’ rich, full voice made the sound transition a smooth one. The unevenness and muffled nature of early sound movies was apparent in his first effort Lilies of the Field (1930) which was an early American-based effort by Alexander Korda. His six films in 1930 prophesied a busy decade to come. In 1931, he did a sequel to Beau Geste which took up the continuing adventures of youngest Geste brother John, Beau Ideal (1931, Herbert Brenon). In 1933 he co-starred with Katherine Hepburn and Colin Clive in Christopher Strong (1933, Dorothy Arzner). By then, Forbes was much in demand with five or six movie roles a year through most of the decade. He made the costume rounds: including, the first sound The Three Musketeers (1935, Rowland V. Lee), Mary of Scotland (1936, John Ford) starring Katherine Hepburn, and the classic Romeo and Juliet (1936, George Cukor) in which he played Juliet's suitor Paris. Forbes was in the sand dunes again for the lead of The Legion of Missing Men (1937, Hamilton MacFadden). His roles became smaller and his last years before the camera were spent in such supporting roles as Sir Hugo Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield) with Richard Greene, and Henry Tudor in Tower of London (1939, Rowland V. Lee). He was not offered a part in the more famous remake of Beau Geste (1939, William A. Wellman) with Gary Cooper. Interestingly, this William A. Wellman directed version is almost a carbon copy of the 1926 effort. After 1940, Forbes film work was sporadic. During his last years he worked on Broadway in such plays as The Little Minister and The Doctor's Dilemma. One of his last stage appearances was in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell in 1948. He also did some early TV playhouse productions in 1950 before his untimely passing the next year. Forbes married three times. In 1924 he married his former leading lady, who was 11 years his senior. They divorced in 1932. Forbes dated Lucille Ball, but she turned down his marriage proposal. In 1934 he married actress Heather Angel; but that marriage also ended in divorce. His last wife was actress Dora Sayers, whom he married in 1946. The wedding took place in the home of Ruth Chatterton, his first wife. After an illness of several weeks, Ralph Forbes died at Montefiore Hospital in New York City in 1951.
Sources: William McPeak (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AlMovie), Find A Grave, Wikipedia and IMDb.
Saved on my computer this is quite big, but uploaded it got small. && it's a scan of me from my baby book, so sorry about the quality. I was 4 years old when this was taken, in my back garden of the house I lived in at Denstone College.
Today: Read Breaking Dawn. Did a teensy bit of History revision. My brother tested me & I totally sucked. We had a Shepherd's Pie for dinner (vegetarian of course) & now I'm lying on my stomach feeling full. The atmosphere in the house is a little sombre right now. Liverpool didn't beat Chelsea tonight, which means they're outta the running. Even my Mom & I watched the end of it. Very tense.
I'm wearing my red plaid pyjama trousers right now. Just the trousers, because I didn't like the top that came with it. Instead I wear various t-shirts & vests. Today I'm wearing a "I Love My Little Pony" t-shirt. My brother thought it read "I Love My Little Porn" at first, & was giving me a really weird look. I absolutely love my plaid trousers. They are so amazingly comfy. Lots of people have commented in the last month or more that wherever I am it is amazingly comfy. The room just feels comfy. That made me laugh. Today my Mom was sitting in the kitchen with me while I finished making a cup of tea, & she said that too, which is odd, because the kitchen is not comfy.
Oh &, sorry for giving too much information, but I have the most awesome underwear. They're black & electric blue with 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' written in silver. On the front there's this silver pumpkin charm. They're totally awesome.
Hannah text me this afternoon to tell me she wasn't doing well with revision. That made me feel a little better, but I know that when Hannah works hard then she works very, very hard. Whereas I'm just lazy.
I keep meaning to quit flickr, but I can't help it. If I suddenly stop uploading, you know why. BUT I'll be back in time for my birthday. So yay!
Listen. Just a lovely peppy song. I use the word 'lovely' far too often.
I have to get up early (relatively) for my Spanish lesson, followed by my Maths lesson. Oh joy. I'm going to have to be up at 9. 10 at the very latest I think. Buenas noches.
View south-east near the eastern boundary of Carleton Cemetery, Carleton, Blackpool. Walker’s Farm/Hill House would have been on the right behind the broken concrete fence and the four tree trunks. I am stood on what was the course of the old footpath. Friday 22 January 2021
I was going to walk up to the fence however the ground was very boggy due to all the recent rain so I shall explore more during the long hot summer of 2021.
CARLETON – BISPHAM VILLAGE (LONG VANISHED DIRECT FOOTPATH)
In the olden days when it was just fields between Carleton and Bispham village there was a footpath that linked the two communities, over time as the land was developed this path disappeared. The route of the footpath is described below:
Stocks Lane commences at the junction with Blackpool Road B5268, it is the lane that you go down to Carleton Crematorium which continues north for a short distance past the left turn in to the crematoriums private driveway located opposite the southern end of Robbins Lane.
Stocks Lane was originally longer than it is now with the footpath to Bispham village commencing at Walker’s Farm (also known as Hill House) the path ran alongside the lane on the north side of it in a westerly direction through what is now Carleton Cemetery. Just west of the current western boundary of the cemetery the lane ended and only the footpath continued north-west to where Bristol Avenue is now. The path then turned north crossing a watercourse via a foot stick (footbridge) and continued north through what is now the recycling centre (formerly the destructor) it then then turned sharp left and ran parallel on the southern side of what is now Wakefield Road (cul-de-sac). From this point it continued west crossing todays Ashfield Road and roughly along the current back garden boundary fences of properties on Buxton Avenue and Denstone Avenue until reaching todays Bangor Avenue where it turned north-west coming out on to Blackpool Road just north of Myrtle Bank (todays junction with Denstone Avenue). You then continued north for a short distance along Blackpool Road to reach Bispham Village.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B
It is not generally known that the Jabez Thompson works at Northwich produced a wide range of bricks, pipes and terracotta. On this letterhead, the list of buildings to which the firm had supplied terracotta work provides ample scope for further investigation.
'The brick works at Witton Hall and on Manchester Road, Northwich, were eventually run by Jabez Thompson (1838-1911). Jabez produced common, fine and moulded bricks and terracotta, providing bricks for the Victorian architect, John Douglas. All the fine and moulded bricks are stamped and have been identified at demolition sites across the North West. He also specialised in ornamental pieces and panels. The façades of Moseley Road Swimming Baths, Birmingham and the Sanatorium at Denstone College, Uttoxeter are by him, as is a terra-cotta alto reredos of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper at St. Michael and All Saints Church, Little Leigh, near Northwich.'
(Source: THE LION SALTWORKS, NORTHWICH, CHESHIRE: THE RESTORATION OF A VICTORIAN SALT WORKS, Andrew Fielding.)
Hello
I think this is actually John A Adamson who spent most of his career as a Classics, Rugby, Cricket and Fives teacher at Denstone College, Staffordshire.
I suspect that the ‘All Black’ strip is more probably that of Oxford University (aka the Dark Blues). He had an England Rugby trial, was reputed to have been the only scorer of a century against Don Bradman’s tourists in the 1930s (needs checking) , possibly for Minor Counties for whom he also played (and Staffordshire).
He went to Bow School, Durham - www.durhamschool.co.uk/old-bowites.asp where I believe his brother may have also been Headmaster.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Alan
Herbert Charles Clive Collis
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Service No: 192422
Date of Death:27/09/1991 - Age:92
Place of Death Rose Hill
Royal Field Artillery
Commissioned - 01/10/1917
Dis-embarked - 15/12/1917 - France
Regular Army Emergency Comm. - 11/10/1943 - 2nd Lieu
Awarded
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
New Year Honours 1962
Chairman, Stoke on Trent War Pensions Committee
Military Cross - Distinguished Service - 19/04/1918
Gazette No. 30643 - 4824
BWM & VM
Solicitor and Notary Public.
11 Villias, Stokeville, Stoke-on-Trent.
Born 1898 at Fenton. Son of late Frank Collis.
Educated at Denstone.
Married 1926, Dorothy Elizabeth, daughter of John Riley.
1934, Chairman Stoke-on-Trent Conservative Association;
1932, Vice-Chairman, Stoke-on-Trent War Pensions Committee ;
1925 President of Stoke-on-Trent Branch British Legion ;
1931 Member Stoke-on-Trent Employment Committee.