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Sir William Turner's Grammar School (Coatham)
Redcar and Cleveland College is a further education college, based in Redcar, North Yorkshire, England. The college offers apprenticeship training as well as A-level, vocational and higher education courses. It is part of the Education Training Collective (Etc.), including Stockton Riverside College, Bede Sixth Form College, NETA Training and The Skills Academy. The college is situated on the A1085 between Westfield and West Dyke, and very near Redcar Central railway station. It is in the Coatham part of Redcar. History Grammar schools Historically, the campus began as the Sir William Turner's Grammar School in Coatham. Sir William Turner left money to form a school in Kirkleatham in 1709, which was rebuilt on ''Coatham Road'' in 1868. In 1963 it moved to buildings on ''Corporation Road'', opposite the current college. The boys' grammar school and the Cleveland Grammar School for Girls, on ''Redcar Lane'', went comprehensive in 1975, with both sixth forms merging to form the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redcar
Redcar is a seaside town on the Yorkshire Coast in the Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority. It is in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, and is located east of Middlesbrough. The Teesside built-up area's Redcar subdivision had a population of 37,073 at the 2011 Census. The town is made up of Coatham, Dormanstown, Kirkleatham, Newcomen, West Dyke, Wheatlands and Zetland. It gained a town charter in 1922, from then until 1968 it was governed by the municipal borough of Redcar. Since the abolition of County Borough of Teesside, which existed from 1968 until 1974, the town has been unparished. History Origins Redcar occupies a low-lying site by the sea; the second element of its name is from Old Norse ''kjarr'', meaning 'marsh', and the first may be either Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ''rēad'' meaning 'red' or OE ''hrēod'' 'reed'. The town originated as a fishing hamlet in the 14th century, trading with the larger adjacent hamlet of Coatham. U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Brenchley
Thomas Frank Brenchley CMG (9 April 1918 – 7 July 2011) was a British diplomat. Career Frank Brenchley was educated at Sir William Turner's School, Coatham, North Yorkshire, and Merton College, Oxford. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals 1939–46 as an intelligence officer in the Middle East. He was assistant military attaché at Ankara 1943–45 while the spy Cicero was operating, and was Director, Telecommunications Liaison, Syria and Lebanon, 1945–46. After leaving the army he spent two years as a civil servant at GCHQ before transferring to the Foreign Office in 1949. He served in Singapore, Cairo, MECAS, Khartoum and Jeddah before returning to London as Head of the Arabian Department of the Foreign Office 1963–67 and then Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1967–68. Brenchley was Ambassador to Norway 1968–72, Ambassador to Poland 1972–74 and finally Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office, 1975–76. He retired from the Diplomatic Service a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Keen
David Alan Keen (25 November 1937 – 10 November 2011) was a British Labour Co-operative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Feltham and Heston from 1992 until his death in 2011. Early life Although born in London, Alan Keen was brought up in the Grangetown and Redcar area in the present day unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland in the north-east of England. He went to the Sir William Turner's Grammar School in Redcar. He joined the British Army in 1960 and after nearly three years of service, in 1963, he started his career with the Fire Protection Industry where he remained until his election to the House of Commons. He also worked as a tactical scout for Middlesbrough F.C. for eighteen years. Parliamentary career He served as a member of Hounslow Borough Council from 1986 to 1990 and was elected to Parliament at the 1992 general election when he unseated the sitting Conservative MP Patrick Ground. In Parliament he served on both the Education (1995 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
