1985 saw a major step towards the present University of Greenwich when Thames Polytechnic ‘merged’ with Avery Hill Teacher Training College.
Avery Hill College was opened in 1906, as a non-denominational college for the training of women teachers, in the former mansion of the late Colonel J. T. North a.k.a. ‘The Nitrate King’. Eighty years later it was absorbed into the Polytechnic system, as were many other similar colleges at the time.
To give a taste of the College’s extensive archive in Avery Hill Library here are the covers from our sadly incomplete collection of the college prospectus.
1985-1986
1984-1985
1983-1984
1982-1983
1980-1981
1979-1980
1977-1978
1976-1977
1975-1976
1974-1975
1973-1974
1972-1973
1966-1967
1943-1944
(Note, College evacuated to Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)
1927-1928