STAFFORD SCHOOL OF ART
Stafford School of Art held their first art classes in an upstairs room at the Borough Hall Stafford in 1873 and one of its early masters was Frederick Davy in 1883. In 1896 the School of Art joined the County Technical School in the Earl Street building which later became the County Education Offices. Then known as the Stafford College of Art and Crafts, in 1963 it moved into the Girls’ High School building at The Oval, Lichfield Road, Stafford. After another name change in 1971 when the Stafford School of Art and Design merged with Stafford College of Further Education, the art school becoming a department of the college at Victoria Square, Stafford. Suffolk artists who studied at Stafford include Michael Coulter, Malcolm Cudmore and Jane Moncur and where Bessie Ellen Lingwood exhibited one of her works and John Thomas Scrivener was a later tutor.