Impact
The impact of Bourne College upon the insular community of Quinton’s farm labourers, shop keepers and small-time metal workers was enormous. As its arrival brought new talent and new blood into the village, there was a very real sense in which it also brought the world to Quinton. During the forty-seven years of its existence in Quinton, some 39 Quinton boys attended the College, in company with 1,159 boys not from Quinton. They came from Welshpool to Warrington; from Berwick-on-Tweed to Redruth and from parts of the world as diverse as France, British Guinea, and that favourite preaching ground of Primitive Methodist missionaries, Fernando Po, from where Rev Napoleon Barleycorn sent his sons to Quinton to be educated. An elderly lady who as a girl had lived in Quinton commented, “We children used to go and stand at the gates of Bourne College because we had heard that there were overseas students there and we had never seen anyone foreign!”
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