Location

The College Business Centre is located on Uttoxeter New Road close to Derby City Centre. It is within easy reach of Derby bus and train stations, the M1 and M42 motorways as well as the A38 and Nottingham East Midlands airport.

So where ever you are we are not far away!

      The College Business Centre,
      Uttoxeter New Road,
      Derby.
      DE22 3WZ

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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