College asks for memories of campus due to close

Former staff and students have been urged to share their memories of a college campus due to close later this year.

The City of Wolverhampton College's campus on Paget Road will shut when the new £61m campus opens in the city learning quarter this autumn.

The Paget Road site opened in 1962 and was originally the base of Wulfrun College, before it merged with the former Bilston College in 1999 to become Wolverhampton College.

Staff have asked people who studied or worked at the site to share their stories and photographs, which will form part of an archive to be displayed at the new campus.

The project is being led by Dr Adam Dwight, educational studies tutor, who said the college was keen to capture people's memories of life at the campus.

"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," he said.

People who want to share their stories have been urged to attend a meeting of the heritage group at the campus on Monday.

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