COALBROOKDALE SCHOOL OF ART
Coalbrookdale School of Art was founded in 1856, it was set up as part of the Coalbrookdale Scientific and Literary Institute, which was created in 1853 for the purpose of giving ‘the inhabitants of Coalbrookdale and the Neighbourhood, the means of acquiring useful knowledge on literary and scientific subjects. The Coalbrookdale Scientific and Literary Institute, which housed the School of Art, had close ties to the Coalbrookdale Company. Representatives from the company were present when the institute was founded, and the company paid to have a building purpose-built to house the institute. They also paid for some of their employees to attend art classes in an effort to create more skilled designers for their art castings department. In 1928 the institute was purchased by Shropshire County Council who relocated the technical and art colleges to the Walker Technical College in Wellington. The headmaster at Coalbrookdale in 1911 was William Henry Gates.
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