• Sarah Yelf

    Sarah Yelf was the first principal of Edge Hill College from 1885 to 1890. On her retirement on health grounds the committee had the following to say: Miss Yelf by the wisdom with which she arranged the general rules, discipline and curriculum of the College, not less than by the conscientiousness, earnestness and christian temper…

  • Gateway

    Thank you to Hazel Gee for saving my bacon this bank holiday and emailing me some postcards of Edge Hill so I can post this while out for lunch!

  • Twelve Pictorial Postcards

  • The Gymnasium

  • Lady Margaret

    Karin Arkinstall from Finance write: Hi Mike, We were fascinated with the picture of Clough hall which is a replica of our room (Finance-Lady Margaret). Do you have any pictures of our room?…If so, we would really appreciate an A4 picture which we could get framed for the office. If not the copy of Clough…

  • Clough Hall Second Edition

    The second version of this postcard of Clough Hall Common Room was published for Taylor’s Stationers of Moor Street, Ormskirk – still there today!

  • Greetings from Edge Hill College Ormskirk

    Sorry postcard geeks but I didn’t get a scan of the back of this one – I think it might have been damaged – but instead you have the excitement of five pictures in one!

  • Edge Hill Training College, Liverpool – The North Cloister

    Printed by prolific publisher of postcards, P. A. Buchanan & Co., Croydon, Surrey.

  • Spot the difference

    Yesterday, Roy commented on the postcard of the Courtyard: One of ther least-changed views of the campus? I decided to find out, so iPhone in hand went down to the courtyard to recreate the classic photo: Pretty close but the lens angle isn’t quite wide enough to get the full vista. Of course it wouldn’t…

  • The Courtyard, Edge Hill Training College, Ormskirk

    A couple of weeks ago while rummaging through the archives I came across a box of blank, unused postcards. It’s quite hard to date them, indeed it’s likely they were produced over a period of time. I believe postcard geeks like to see the back of the card, so here it is! Printed by Valentine…