Girls’ County School, Collier Road, Cambridge
History of the Girls' County School
Built 1900
Cambridge 1925 OS map
In WWI this was a temporary depot for the Cambridgeshire Regiment.
28 October 1938
The Cambridge & County Girls School started in 1900 in the Drill Hall, East Road, then known as the Technical Institute. By 1903 they overflowed into rooms belonging to the Zion Chapel Sunday School and it was not until 1909 that they moved to the present buildings, retiring headmistress, Miss Dovey said. But in August 1914, when war broke out, the school was taken possession of by the Welsh Fusiliers and other regiments. For a year the school was housed in Emmanuel College lecture rooms and St Andrew’s Street Sunday School. Soon they would move to new premises in Long Road
Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge East Road Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, references 38 10 28 & a.
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