Share your memories of Wolverhampton College campus before closure
Former students and staff at Wolverhampton College's Paget Road campus are being asked to share their memories of the site before it closes later this year.
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The college's new state-of-the-art £61million campus, set in the City Learning Quarter in the centre of Wolverhampton, is due to open in the autumn and all courses currently delivered at the site in Compton will move to the new premises.
The campus, which opened in 1962, was originally the site of Wulfrun College before it merged with the former Bilston College, in Wellington Road, to become Wolverhampton College in 1999, adapting the title to include City of following the granting of city status in 2000.
Staff are keen to gather stories and photographs from former students and employees about their experiences of studying and working at the Paget Road campus, the qualifications they gained, the careers they progressed to and the friends they made.
Information received will form part of a historical archive that will be on display at the new campus and also feature at a celebration event to mark the end of an era of the much-loved site and recognise the contribution it has made to education in the city for more than six decades.
Dr Adam Dwight, tutor in educational studies, who is leading the college's heritage project, said: "The Paget Road campus has been a well-known landmark in the area since the 1960s and, in this time, has educated thousands of people from across the West Midlands and beyond.
"At college events we often hear parents or grandparents saying that they studied at the campus and we are keen to capture those memories, celebrate achievements and capture the site's history as we get ready to move to the new City Learning Quarter."
Anyone with tales to tell is welcome to attend a meeting of the heritage group at the campus on Monday, March 31 at 4pm.
For more information about the meeting or to email memories, contact dwighta@wolvcoll.ac.uk
The new city centre campus forms part of Wolverhampton Council's City Learning Quarter masterplan, which is transforming learning facilities for people across the city and saw the opening of a new £8.1 million Advanced Technology and Automotive Centre at the Wellington Road campus, in Bilston, in September 2024.
