Location

The College Business Centre is in the heart of Derby just a few minutes walk from the city centre. However you are travelling we are easy to get to and have parking on site:

·                     CAR:

We are ideally placed to give easy access to the A38, M1, M42 and soon the new Ring Road. Click for a map or put DE22 3WZ into your satnav! The car park entrance is to the left of the building.

·                     TRAIN:

Derby station is a short walk, bus or taxi ride away. Click to be taken to National Rail Enquiries.

·                     BUS:

Derby Bus station is a brief walk away with local and national services or there is a bus stop outside The College Business Centre with frequent buses going to the centre of town, the station and the new hospital. Click to be taken to bus info for Derby.

·                     PLANE:

East Midlands Airport can be quickly reached by car/taxi, train or bus for Domestic and International Flights. Click to be taken to the airports site.

·                     ON FOOT:

We are about halfway between the City Centre and the new hospital, opposite the graveyard. Click to be taken to Walk It and get a route for your journey.


A History of the Building

A College for forty students (1851 -1894)
'A training school for the training of School Mistresses to be employed in educating children of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes.' Thus was the Derby Training College to be described in the Trust Deed of February 23rd 1850.

The foundation stone laid in 1850
The Derby Mercury remarked on June 26th that 'The laying of the foundation stone on June 22nd was marked by considerable pomp and ceremony' and that prior to the laying of the foundation stone a 'large company of friends and subscribers, partook of an elegant breakfast.'

Fifteen months later the building was completed and furnished. It opened on September 29th, 1851, with 12 students.

The new Collage - The Derby Institution for the Training of School Mistresses as it was for many years called-is described in the Derby Mercury for October 8th: 'The building has a very picturesque and pleasing aspect. Its structure is of the period of James I...

The above is taken from the book: The History of the First Hundred Years of the Diocesan Training College Derby - by Margaret Dobson