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Wedgwood Memorial College

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The buildings were also rented out for weddings, parties and small conferences, with eight rooms available that accommodated from ten to 40 people per room. One of these rooms is the
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offers a partial subsidy to Esperanto learners attending the Wedgwood Memorial College programme and who have first completed such an introductory course.
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Between 1960 and 2011, the last opportunity prior to its 2012 closure, Wedgwood Memorial College offered a week-long
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Fifty Years A-Growing: A History of the North Staffordshire District, the Workers' Educational Association 1921-1971
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every January and a weekend residential course in Esperanto language every October. The
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until it was closed down by the council in March 2012. It still houses the centre of
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summer school every August. This came about partly through the influence of
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has its main office on the Estoril site of Wedgwood Memorial College.
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in the 1930s, and the college opened in February 1945 in
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Index

Wedgwood Institute
Barlaston
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire, England
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Esperanto
Burslem
Wedgwood Institute
Adult Residential Colleges Association
Montagu C. Butler Library
Esperanto House
Wedgwood
Barlaston Hall
coal mining
geological fault
Esperanto Association of Britain
Esperanto
Horace Barks
Esperanto theatre
Esperanto Association of Britain
"Staffordshire Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Staffordshire"
"College Tutors"
"College Library"
"Seminars and Small Conferences"
"Languages taught"
cite book
link
Esperanto Association of Britain
Montagu C. Butler Library
Catalogue of Buter Library (downloadable)

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