Houses
As with the majority of independent schools, Worksop College is split into houses. There are a total of 8 houses which are currently open and one which has closed.
Boys' houses:
- Mason House (formerly Cross, opened in 1895)
- Pelham House (formerly Fleur de Leys, opened in 1895)
- Talbot House (formerly Crown, opened in 1897)
- Portland House (opened in 1948 when Prep moved to Ranby)
- Shirley House (opened in 1925)
Girls' houses:
- Derry House (opened in 1978)
- Gibbs House (opened in 1986)
- School House (opened in 1930, closed in 1986, re-opened in 2007)
Closed house:
- Mountgarret (formerly Lion, opened 1895, closed 1993)
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this observance?’ you shall say, ‘It is the passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.’”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:26-27.
“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A new disease? I know not, new or old,
But it may well be called poor mortals’ plague:
For, like a pestilence, it doth infect
The houses of the brain ...
Till not a thought, or motion, in the mind,
Be free from the black poison of suspect.”
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)