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A Website in Tribute to the Huddersfield College of Education (Technical), later Huddersfield Polytechnic's 'School of Education', and to its Life and Times on the Hollybank Road Site
To mark its 70th Anniversary in 2017, here is an updated website for former staff and students of 'HollyBank', the affectionate name for the College once located on Hollybank Road in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Begun by its charismatic Director Alexander MacLennan ('Mac') in 1947, the College trained thousands of lecturers working, or planning to work, in further and higher education in the UK and throughout the world. The College grew to form the heart of a network of over 30 Extramural Centres, based in colleges of further and higher education across Northern and Eastern England.
Merged with Huddersfield Polytechnic in 1974 (whereupon Mac retired), the HollyBank site was transformed into a Wimpey housing estate in 2002 and its work transmogrified into the School of Education and Professional Education in the newly-formed University of Huddersfield.
 Contributions to this website in words and/or images are very welcome from any former staff and students willing to share their experiences of HollyBank or any of its centres. Please just contact myself, Barry Williamson (pictured on a winter's day by the pillar box at the upper entrance to the site from Holly Bank Road, soon after the bulldozers moved in).
I spent my working career at the college, reaching the dizzy heights of Principal Lecturer, working mainly on the In-Service Certificate of Education at Holly Bank and its many extramural centres. I also spent long periods working in India and other countries, training staff on exchange schemes with sister colleges. I early-retired in 1994, having developed new curricula for all the courses at Holly Bank (Certificate, Bachelor and Masters level) based on a Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
After retirement, I became a full-time traveller with my wife Margaret, roaming the world by motorhome and bicycles (visit MagBazTravels and/or MagBazPictures).
I look forward to hearing from you
Barry Williamson
Updated in December 2020 |
