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:
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“And the Harvard students in the brick
hallowed houses studied Sappho in cement rooms.
And this Sappho danced on the grass
and danced and danced and danced.
It was a death dance.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)