Historic Long Eaton - Trent College Traditional Cache
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Historic Long Eaton - Trent College
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Trent College was founded in 1866 by Francis Wright as a private school.
Following an extensive building programme, the school took its first contingent of 53 boys in 1868 - two years after the foundation stone had been laid by the Duke of Devonshire. By 1870, the number of boys had increased to 250, and the opening of the Victorian Chapel in 1875 - one of the school's founding principles had been to combat the pro-Catholic Oxford Movement - led to a further increase in boys.
In 1892, Trent College was taken over by The Evangelical College and School Company, established by Francis Wrights surviving family, which remained its directors until 1966, when the school became Trent College Ltd.
In 1922 the school was ravaged by fire which spread quickly because of the large quantity of dry wood within the structure, leaving three dormitories, the dining hall, part of the Prep School and classrooms gutted. Although no-one was killed in the blaze, for safety reasons the juniors were moved out to Bramcote Hall to make way for the seniors while the gutted main building began to be restored. The Long Eaton Advertiser at the time reported that the fire damage amounted to between £50,000 and £60,000.
In 1975, Sixth Form girls were admitted to Trent.
September 1992 girls aged 11+ and 13+ were allowed into Trent and is still going strong today
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