• Pontville School 1910 – 2010

    Edge Hill isn’t the only educational establishment in Ormskirk celebrating an anniversary this year – Pontville School on Black Moss Lane is 100 years old in 2010 – happy birthday!

  • Directory 1885 – 1915

    The archive contains a very interesting artefact – a directory listing every student to pass through the College in its first 30 years. The back page of the booklet lists some fascinating statistics including the following snippets: Number who have passed through the College: 1,705 Number who did not complete the training: 4 Total number…

  • The First Eleven 1911-12

    You wouldn’t mess with these ladies!

  • Our Twenty-Fifth Anniversary

    On day one of this blog I posted Sarah Hale’s invitation to the Twenty-Fifth anniversary of the College and today we get to see a glimpse of the event itself with the photo of those who attended taken at 4pm, July 2nd, 1910.

  • The Principal

    There is no doubt that Miss Hale was a very great lady; to most of us a remote and powerful presence, yet to anyone in real distress she could be infinitely kind. Her mental capacity and her ability to deal with the many difficulties that wartime brought were without parallel. She was really an old…

  • Memorandum from the Principal

    100 years ago and Edge Hill was celebrating it’s twenty fifth anniversary: May 18th, 1910. Memorandum from the Principal. My Dear Students, You will be glad to know that the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the College will be kept on July 2nd next. Note the date, for the fourth Saturday in June – the date of…