Wellington School, Bebington
former private grammar school in Wirral, England
Wellington School was a small private day school in Wellington Road, Bebington, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, England, active between 1953 and 1995.
History
Founded by John Philip Fogg (born 1917) in 1953, the main school building (Mount Allars) was bought with the accrued 'war pay' owed to Fogg, who was an officer in the mercantile marine, captured in 1941 by the Japanese and held as a POW for four years. A visionary and an idealist, Fogg was deeply influenced by the educational reforms which were realised by a series of Christian school masters in the nineteenth century. His interests included: playing the organ; the Middle Ages; mediaeval art, literature and architecture; chivalry; the Romantic poets; the Lake District and motoring in his vintage pre-war motor car. His churchmanship was "low" with a strong affiliation to nonconformity.
The school was run for many decades by the owner, Fogg (who was known as "The Gaffer"), and who served as the headmaster and a teacher of languages (Latin, German and French,) and by deputy headmaster Brian E. Bristow (who taught geography, geology, commerce, and 'current affairs'). Fogg's wife, Enid, assisted in the running of the domestic side of the school.
Until 1968–1969, the school's official uniform, supplied by Messrs Watson Prickard of North John Street, Liverpool, consisted of both a winter and spring blazer in a deep bottle green, and a summer blazer, which was striped in the school colours: green, yellow, black and red. Both had matching caps.
The school had four houses, each with its own colour: School (red), Frobisher (blue), Grenville (black) and Marlborough (green).
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