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Friends' School (known as Walden School from 2016–17) was a Quaker private co-educational day and boarding school located in Saffron Walden, Essex, [2] situated approximately 12 miles south of the city of Cambridge, England. The school taught pupils between the ages of three and eighteen.
Saffron Walden was initially named Saffron Walden International College (SWIC) and later changed to Bell College. In addition, Bell runs residential courses for over 3000 young learner students (aged 8 – 17 years), mostly during the British summer, in a range of locations including St Albans, and summer camps at The Leys School in Cambridge ...
The earliest schools in Walden dated from 1423 under the control of the neighbouring monastery. [1] The Grammar School was founded by Dame Joan Bradbury in 1522. Lady Joan was the wife of London's Lord Mayor Thomas Bradbury (d.1510); her brother, John Leche, was the Rector of Saffron Walden.
Saffron Hall, which is attached to Saffron Walden County High School, opened in 2013. The 730-seater venue came about as a result of a £10 million donation by an anonymous music loving donor. [ 40 ] In 2014, former head of music at the Barbican Centre Angela Dixon became its director.
Joan Leche (c. 1450 – March 1530), benefactress, was the wife successively of Thomas Bodley, and of Thomas Bradbury, Lord Mayor of London in 1509. She founded a chantry in London, and a grammar school in Saffron Walden, Essex.
The only cinema in Saffron Walden has operated within the school since 2006. [12] It is a not-for-profit cinema run by volunteer projectionists using both digital projectors and 35mm film. [13] Both Saffron Screen and Saffron Hall are open to the public outside of school hours and used by the school otherwise.
He was housemaster at the Friends School, Saffron Walden from 1938–43 and then moved to Abbotsholme School, Derbyshire from 1943-44. He lectured in education at University College, Nottingham (now the University of Nottingham) and at the University of Wales in Cardiff from 1944-50.
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