Mary Linwood
Mary Linwood (1755–1845) was an English needle woman who exhibited her worsted embroidery or crewel embroidery in Leicester and London and was the school mistress of a private school. In the 20th century, Mary Linwood Comprehensive School w ...
Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in the
English city of
Leicester
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popula ...
.
The school was an all-girls school till 1976 when it started to admit boys from the, closing, Linwood Boys school, the last year of all girls left in 1980. Before closure in 1997, the school became an annex o
Riverside Business & Enterprise College(formerly Riverside Community College) and after Mary Linwood School's closure most of the teachers and any remaining students transferred to Riverside.
In 2007, Leicester City Council considered the establishment of a City Academy on the site of the former Mary Linwood Secondary School. The principal sponsor of this Academy is the Church of England. The Council transferred the site of the former secondary school (Mary Linwood) to the sponsors.
[Determination https://web.archive.org/web/20071030233727/http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk/upload/STP000156%20-%20Newry%20Southfields.docSamworth, Leicester's first City Academy]
was built on the site of the old Mary Linwood school and completed in September, 2007.
The children of author Sue Townsend
Susan Lillian Townsend (; 2 April 194610 April 2014) was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole.
After writing in secret from the a ...
attended the school during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their experiences influenced her highly successful Adrian Mole
Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of epistolary novels by English author Sue Townsend. The character first appeared (as "Nigel") as part of a comic diary featured in a short-lived arts magazine (called simply ''mag ...
books. ''The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole'' was reputedly based on Sue Townsend's son's experiences at the school. Several of the teachers who appear in the book (such as Mr. Dock and Miss Fossington-Gore) are based on actual staff who worked at the school in the early 1980s.
External links
Mary Linwood School
References
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Defunct schools in Leicester
Educational institutions disestablished in 1997
1997 disestablishments in England