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In more recent years, so many exciting
new internal developments have been implemented.
One of these is the Chapel, such a priceless asset for the
school, where multifarious creeds and cultures start the day
unified in the bond of common worship. The chapel’s
alterations, which initially raised a few eyebrows, particularly
among some OTs until the benefits became manifest, allow greater
flexibility of usage.
Another great innovation took place in 1997, when the Lower
and Upper School libraries were amalgamated, upgraded and
relocated to the room below the Chapel, formerly known as
‘big school’, which until 1954 was where most
of the school’s teaching had taken place.
The modernisation of the Boys’ Boarding House has been
a phenomenal success- the contented boarding house ‘
family’ parented by a devoted team of staff flourishes
as never before in modern times.
In 1998, the Drive School moved from its Wrottesley Road
site, to the modern purpose built school situated on the former
‘Towers Lawn’; another planning master stroke.
The adjacent Lower School opened in 2002 and is already proving
its worth. The Towers building, former home of Lower School
is today a base for the flourishing Music department and other
academic departments in Upper School.
The Theatre continues to be a popular venue for the Colleges
many drama and musical productions.
Superb floodlit tennis/ netball courts have been created
on a part of Towers field. A new car park is situated upon
waste ground which was the Towers kitchen garden, during an
earlier epoch.
A new two-tiered balconied showpiece cricket pavilion was
opened on June 7th 2003, on the occasion of the Old Tettenhallians’
annual reunion weekend. This replaced the original Horace
Pearson memorial cricket Pavilion which was destroyed on the
windy night of Tuesday 23rd May 2000 by a fallen tree. (Horace
Pearson was Headmaster, 1927-1941) The Old Tettenhallians
Club had presented this former building to the College in
1953.
In September 2004, a complete refurbishment of our Victorian
swimming pool has produced a stunningly attractive modernisation.
The architect responsible, not only for the aforementioned,
but also the Pavilion, The DriveSchool, and Lower School is
long serving College Governor Ron Whild (25 years’ service
to the Governing Body).
For Old Tettenhallians returning to pay us a visit, wandering
down memory lane later in life, the grace and conviviality
of this great old school is as it has always been; memory
seekers are rarely, if ever disappointed.
As we strive to develop and advance, keeping to the forefront
of ever more sophisticated and complex educational advancement,
while all around our surroundings bloom and flourish ever
more gloriously, all of us working here still hold dear the
ideals and traditions that have made Tettenhall the place
it is and Tettenhallians the people they are; a place where
memories, friendships and associations are bonded.
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