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From: "David Lamb" <>
Subject: Re: TORQUAY SCHOOLS
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:19:51 +0100
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Hello,

It might help you to know that the former Audley Park School is now called
"Torquay Community College". Many comprehensive schools (that is, schools
which cater for pupils aged 11 to at least 16, of all abilities except for
pupils whose
special educational needs are so great that their needs are better met in
special schools) are now called "community colleges", to reflect the fact
that their facilities are designed to serve the whole community, with
evening classes and activities for adults, as well as the usual daytime
lessons. I mention this because my dictionary tells me that in the US and
Canada, a community college is something quite different - "a nonresidential
college offering two-year courses of study." Here are the contact details
for Torquay Community College, including a website which has a photo:

Torquay Community College
Fairfield Road
Torquay
Devon
UK
TQ2 7NU

Email:
Website: www.tccnetwork.net


The Cockington school is Cockington Primary School (that is, it covers ages
5 to 11). Cockington is a village on the outskirts of the seaside resort of
Torquay, and very much a conservation area, with horse-and-cart "taxis", a
working blacksmith, glass-blower, basket-maker, and so on, and plenty of
thatched roofs. However, the school is in Old Mill Road, which is not quite
so idyllic, and in the area of Torquay known as Chelston. Here are the
contact details (I've included the website, though when I tried it, I got a
message saying, "Site Under Construction":

Cockington Primary School
Old Mill Road
Torquay
Devon
UK
TQ2 6AP

Email:
Website: www.cockington-primary.torbay.sch.uk

Regards,

David Lamb (Paignton, Devon, UK)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyn Tregilgas" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:33 AM
Subject: TORQUAY SCHOOLS


> Hello listers, I am wondering if anyone would have a picture of two
schools that my father went to in the 1930's. One is Cockington School and
the other Audley Park.
>
> I am also interested in their history. I have been on-line and can't find
anything relevant.
>
> Many thanks
> Lyn
> Adelaide
> South Australia
>


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