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Description: | Aldin House, which today houses St. Bernard's School, had a long tradition of education. Originally built as a home for Baroness Burdett-Coutts, it was opened as St. Michael's School on 22 September 1869, and educated, amongst others, the Conservative Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. After St. Michael's moved to Westgate, Aldin House was bought as a college in 1884 by a group of French Jesuits. They stayed for eight years, and then the house was eventually bought by the Bernardines in 1897. It re-opened its doors to local children in 1906, when a room in the convent's tower was set aside as a classroom. The School was renamed St. Bernard's, and was in the care of the Bernardine nuns until the early twenty-first century. In July 2006 the last of the Bernadine nuns left St. Bernard's and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton took over as trustees. St. Bernard's Convent School had become St. Bernard's Catholic Grammar School. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Roman Catholic Church ; Nunneries ; Schools ; Fireplaces St. Bernard's Convent ; Aldin House ; St. Michael's School ; St. Bernard's Grammar School ; St. Bernard's School | Temporal: | start=2006-01-01; end=2008-02-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Michael Day | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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