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Welcome to the Prior Pursglove College Archive Website

Welcome to the online home of Prior Pursglove College Archive. The archive spans over eight hundred years, and contains thousands of documents and objects. In t...
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Football photographs!

We've been busy adding to the website, and the football photographs from the 1890s until 1950 are up on the website.
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New photo galleries: sports and more!

Our website continues to grow, with the addition of hockey, cricket, netball and athletics photographs, as well as more photographs of staff and students.
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The School Museum – An Exciting Discovery

We knew that a School Museum was established by Rev. Eves in the 1890s and continued for some 40 or 50 years.
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School's War Honours Board - Now Available

We have now completed the research into the names of the fallen listed on the School’s and you can find this in the History Section. We hope you enjoy rea...
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The School Museum - now available

We have now added to the website information and photos of the artefacts that were in the Old School Museum, the oldest of which is over 3,000 years old! Read m...
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More Sports Photos Added

We have now been able to add more sports photos including cricket, athletics and old boys football teams. See our Photo Galleries.
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The Sports Pavilion

In the summer, the very difficult decision was made that the old Sports Pavilion, built in 1936, would have to go. Read more about the history of the Pavilion h...
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Guisborian Magazines available

We have available a number of spare copies of The Guisborian Magazines covering the years 1964, 1967, 1969, 1970 and 1972. If you would like a copy, please cont...
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VE Day Commemoration

As part of the 70th anniversary of VE Day, we are researching the names of old boys of the School listed in the Guisborian Magazines as Prisoners of War during ...
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Guisborough Priory Celebrates 900 Years

Gisborough Priory Project will be holding it’s biggest event of the year on Saturday 15th June 2019 from 10am to 4pm. The Medieval Pageant in the Priory i...
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