Description
Founded by Non-Conformist businessmen from the town’s industrial power base, the woollen mills and the engineering works, to provide a non-sectarian education for their children, Newtown School, Trowbridge has seen it all. This is its story.
The book offers an often unique and insightful view of the developing face of education in the twentieth century. Its author provides an introductory framework, giving the history of the school and its staff. The assembled stories of former pupils take us from the late nineteenth century through to the 1990s. This gives an organic feel to the narrative; of differing perspectives, of fresh eyes discovering the school. The school, was described by an early HM Inspector as “the most beautiful and up-to-date school in the West of England” and its plans were sent to the Paris International Exhibition of 1900 as a fine example of a British school.
The book is a celebration of how the school developed over the years reflecting the town’s growing manufacturing base which attracted an increasing number of newcomers, always welcoming and well known for handling challenges successfully and effectively.
You might also enjoy our book Trowbridge A History and Celebration found here
About Trowbridge Museum:
Trowbridge Museum tells the story of the town and its residents. As well as the impact of the woollen cloth trade and industrial revolution.
The museum has been housed in the Grade II listed Home Mills since 1990. The Mill was the town’s last working woollen cloth mill and Trowbridge’s largest, built in 1862-1863.
Fascinating objects, unique textile related machinery and wonderful images. Learn how the town developed from a Magna Carta Baron town to a prominent mill town, eventually producing West of England Cloth that people sought after across the world. Click here. Explore this history in our exclusive handmade lino print found here
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