Kathryn Cronin, who studied Level 2 and Level 3 Floristry courses at Reaseheath College, successfully set up her sustainable floristry business Fierceblooms in 2016, which continues to flourish. Kathryn shares her Reaseheath experience in the article below. I started studying Floristry at Reaseheath College as a mature learner in 2014. I have a botany degree […]
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95-year-old alumnus Albert Bailey returned to campus to reminisce during our 100th anniversary, almost eighty years after studying Horticulture with us in the 1940s. During Albert’s visit to Reaseheath in November 2022, he shared his memories with staff and toured parts of campus, including our Main Hall and horticulture facilities to see how they have
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John Ketteridge, Cheshire School of Agriculture, 1962 – 1963 I was first introduced to farming on a ‘ten-day schoolboy course’ at Reaseheath in July 1957, when the College was known as the Cheshire ‘School’ of Agriculture. I then left Reaseheath to gain further work experience on Cheshire farms and returned as a full-time student at
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Cheshire School of Agriculture alumnus Martin Bourne shares his fantastic memories from his time studying with us in 1952/53. I saw an advertisement in either the Farmer and Stockbreeder or the Farmers Weekly (we used to read both from cover to cover) for government funded scholarships, tenable at any farm institute in the country. There
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Photo shows students butter churning at Reaseheath, taken around 1940 Doreen Taylor-Brown, a dairying student at Reaseheath from 1945, sent us this letter in 2021, sharing her experience of studying with us and what she went onto do in her career. I, Doreen Taylor-Brown (nee Pickwell) entered the college as a student studying dairying in
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Reaseheath: A Notable Year 1935-36 By Victor F. Dutton Included in Reaseheath Association Magazine 1961 I think it must have been the pleasant memories of happy days at Reaseheath which awakened me one hour before schedule – 1935 and 1936 in company with such colourful personalities as John Meldrum, Harold Morton, Harry Blackburn, Tom Kinsey,
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*Photo taken during a horticulture lesson in 1926* ‘A very old student looks back’: article written by Arthur L Barritt, who studied Horticulture at Reaseheath from 1931 – 1933. It was sent for inclusion in the Reaseheath Association 1962 edition. Since leaving Reaseheath in 1933 it may be fairly pertinent to say that a great
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BSc (Hons) Equine Science alumnus Mary Lennon has been honoured for her tireless support of the British Horse Society (BHS) in the society’s latest annual awards. Mary, who is Treasurer of the BHS Greater Manchester Committee, received the BHS Volunteer of the Year Award 2020 from BHS Chief Executive Officer James Hick in a presentation
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BSc (Hons) Zoo Management alumnus Charlotte Daniels has started an exciting new chapter in her career by beginning an internship with the United Nations Environment Programme Great Ape Survival Partnership (UNEP-GRASP). The partnership is a unique alliance of governments, research institutions, United Nations agencies, conservation organisations and the private sector and was launched by the
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Written by alumni Steve Waterworth I attended Reaseheath College from 2011-13 as a very mature student enrolled on the Level 3 Countryside Management course. It was a big risk as I not only gave up a permanent job in the motor trade, but I had a family and mortgage to worry about so there was
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