WALTHAMSTOW SCHOOL OF ART
Walthamstow School of Art was formed in 1883 by the Walthamstow Literary Institute and based at the Trinity School, in West Avenue, which related to the Science and Art Department in South Kensington which is now known as the Royal College of Art. In 1892 it moved to Grosvenor House, Hoe Street, and in 1900 to Court House, Hoe Street and in 1906 the administration was taken over by the Walthamstow Higher Education Committee. In the early 1960s Walthamstow was one of the best schools of art in the country and the Royal College of Art admitted more students from Walthamstow than from any other school. The Coldstream art school curriculum changes in UK art schools from 1960 when the accreditation for the new Diploma in Art and Design (DipAD) was withheld from many well-regarded schools, including Walthamstow. In the 1970s, it was merged into Northeast London Polytechnic and now part of the University of East London. Suffolk artists tutors who taught at Walthamstow or Northeast London Polytechnic include Lionel Bulmer, Fred Dubery, Margaret Green, William Henry Milnes, Tom Phillips, Simon Read, Terry Shave and Frank Hillyard Swinstead and those that studied at Walthamstow include Rosemary Elliott, Emilie Gwynne-Jones, Doug Kemp, Noel Myles, Peter David Polaine and Jack Stephenson.