Queens Hospital
Burton baths were built and donated to the town by Richard and Robert Ratcliff, the sons of the brewer Samuel Ratcliff. They were handed over…
Several requests for a Burton public swimming baths had been made with the only available swimming in the river Trent. These were most strongly voiced…
Burton Grammar School’s history can be traced back to Burton Abbey in 1520. In 1834, it moved into premises in Friar’s Walk which can still…
In this time of much educational change, in 1884, the boys from Allsopp’s Foundation Charity School were amalgamated into the new Bond Street Grammar School,…
It is not certain when it first came into being but there was a ‘school house’ on the site of the Friars Walk school in…
By the amalgamation of Finney’s Allsopp’s and Astle’s Charities, together with the Grammar School Endowments, provision was made for three Burton Endowed Schools, two for…