3-039-071 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Eastbourne College, Sussex, 1871. 'Our Engraving represents the new buildings recently erected for the college at Eastbourne by the munificence of the president, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. The site is a compact rectangular piece of land about seven acres in extent, four acres of which...have been set apart for the cricket and football ground. The main building of the college faces the north, and has a frontage of 105 ft. This part contains the large school-room, class-rooms, dormitories, and bath-room. Behind this are the dining-hall, the studies, the master's room, and the head master's house. This last has been built some years, and the garden round it is ornamented with well-grown trees or shrubs, which, standing at some distance in the rear of the college, form a pretty background to the new red-brick building...The present Head Master, the Rev. Thompson Podmore...was appointed by the council in the summer of last year. The college comprises a classical and a modern department. In the latter the Master is the Rev. G. R. Green. M.A., late scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford. We ought not to omit to mention that the architect is Mr. H. Currey, whose noble buildings for St. Thomas's Hospital are now completed at Lambeth'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.