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Brooksby Melton College
SMB College Group, formerly Brooksby Melton College and Stephenson College, is a further education college based in Leicestershire. The college has three campuses: Stephenson Campus is in Coalville, Melton Campus is in the heart of Melton Mowbray and Brooksby Campus is about west of Melton in the village of Brooksby including the late–16th-century manor house, Brooksby Hall. Notable alumni *Owen Warner - actor * Tom Marshall - artist and photo colouriser * Adrian Scarborough - actor and patron of the college *Amy Wren - actress *George Martin - rugby union player *Will Wand Will Wand (born 31 December 2001) is an English professional rugby union player for Coventry in the RFU Championship. His usual position is centre, but he can also play on the wing. Early life Wand joined Spalding RFC at the age of 4 and progre ... - rugby union player External links College website Further education colleges in Leicestershire Melton Mowbray {{UK-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Further Education
Further education (often abbreviated FE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland is education in addition to that received at secondary school, that is distinct from the higher education (HE) offered in universities and other academic institutions. It may be at any level in compulsory secondary education, from entry to higher level qualifications such as awards, certificates, diplomas and other vocational, competency-based qualifications (including those previously known as NVQ/SVQs) through awarding organisations including City and Guilds, Edexcel ( BTEC) and OCR. FE colleges may also offer HE qualifications such as HNC, HND, foundation degree or PGCE. The colleges are also a large service provider for apprenticeships where most of the training takes place at the apprentices' workplace, supplemented with day release into college. FE in the United Kingdom is usually a means to attain an intermediate, advanced or follow-up qualification necessary to progress into HE, or to begin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melton Mowbray
Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester, and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town had a population 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promoted as Britain's "Rural Capital of Food", it is the home of the Melton Mowbray pork pie and is the location of one of six licensed makers of Stilton cheese. History Toponymy The name comes from the early English word Medeltone – meaning "Middletown surrounded by small hamlets" (as do Milton and Middleton). Mowbray is the Norman family name of early Lords of the Manor – namely Robert de Mowbray. Early history In and around Melton, there are 28 scheduled ancient monuments, some 705 buildings of special architectural or historical interest, 16 sites of special scientific interest, and several deserted village sites. Its industrial archaeology includes the Grantham Canal and remains of the Melton Mowbray Navigation. Windmill sites and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, Staffordshire to the west, and Derbyshire to the north-west. The border with most of Warwickshire is Watling Street, the modern A5 road (Great Britain), A5 road. Leicestershire takes its name from the city of Leicester located at its centre and unitary authority, administered separately from the rest of the county. The ceremonial county – the non-metropolitan county plus the city of Leicester – has a total population of just over 1 million (2016 estimate), more than half of which lives in the Leicester Urban Area. History Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book in four wapentakes: Guthlaxton, Framland, Goscote, and Gartree (hundred), Gartree. These later became hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooksby
Brooksby is a deserted village and former civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ..., now in the parish of Hoby with Rotherby, in the Melton district, in Leicestershire, England. It was the ancestral home of the Villiers family. Brooksby and surrounding villages were served by Brooksby railway station. In 1931 the parish had a population of 69. The name 'Brooksby' means 'farm/settlement of Brok' or 'farm/settlement with a brook'. On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Hoby with Rotherby. Brooksby Hall, a 16th-century manor house, and the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Brooksby, are all that remains of a village that was cleared to enable sheep to be grazed. The church was once the living for Henry Gregg who was married to the writer Elizab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coalville
Coalville is an industrial town in the district of North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England, with a population at the 2011 census of 34,575. It lies on the A511 trunk road between Leicester and Burton upon Trent, close to junction 22 of the M1 motorway where the A511 meets the A50 between Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Leicester. It borders the upland area of Charnwood Forest to the east of the town. Coalville is twinned with Romans-sur-Isère in southeastern France. History Coalville is a product of the Industrial Revolution. As its name indicates, it is a former coal mining town and was a centre of the coal-mining district of north Leicestershire. It has been suggested that the name may derive from the name of the house belonging to the founder of Whitwick Colliery: 'Coalville House'. However, conclusive evidence is a report in the ''Leicester Chronicle'' of 16 November 1833: 'Owing to the traffic which has been produced by the Railway and New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooksby Hall
Brooksby Hall is a late16th-century manor house on 3.2 square kilometres (800 acres) of land between Leicester and Melton Mowbray. Situated northeast of Leicester, the hall and the neighbouring church of St Michael and All Angels are the last remnants of the medieval village of Brooksby, which was founded during the period of the Danelaw in the 9th century AD. In the 15th and 16th centuries Brooksby was depopulated by enclosures carried out by the estate's owners, which turned its cultivated land into sheep pastures in order to profit from a boom in wool. A 31-acre garden adjoins the hall, leading down to the River Wreake and the railway line from Leicester to Peterborough. The hall, which is Grade II* listed, was occupied for centuries by the Villiers family and later by Admiral David Beatty, the British commander at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. It is now part of the Brooksby Melton College and is also used as a wedding and conference venue. Architecture A manor house has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Warner
Owen David Warner (born 8 June 1999) is an English actor. He is known for portraying the role of Romeo Nightingale in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. For his portrayal of Romeo, Warner won the Digital Spy Reader Awards, Digital Spy Reader Award for Best Soap Newcomer in 2018. In November 2022, Warner appeared as a contestant on the I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British series 22), 22nd UK series of ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' finishing in second place. Early life Warner was born on 8 June 1999 in Leicester, Leicestershire and attended Gartree High School before going on to study performing arts at SMB College Group's Melton Campus, formerly Brooksby Melton College, completing his studies in July 2017. He has two older brothers. Warner further studied acting at the Actors Workshop Nottingham. He later returned to the city to raise money for the Nottingham-based charity Footprints Conductive Education Centre, where he participated in a charity footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Marshall (artist)
Tom Marshall (born 25 February 1988) is a British artist, model maker and image editor known for his colourisations of historical black and white photographs, often working under the name ''PhotograFix''. Early life Marshall was born in Leicester, England and grew up in Rutland and Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He studied Media Production at Brooksby Melton College and the University of Lincoln. Work Marshall's creative process involves adding colour to black and white photographs using Photoshop. For images where the colors aren't known or for historical photographs he relies on research for accuracy and his best judgement. In a 2016 BBC interview, Marshall explained his motive behind photo colourisation. ''"People'' ''sadly don't take a lot of interest in a black and white photo, whereas if they see something that's turned into colour from 100 years ago, it generates a lot more interest".'' In 2016 the ''Irish Independent'' commissioned Marshall to colourise a seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Scarborough
Adrian Philip Scarborough (born 10 May 1968) is an English actor. He has appeared in films including ''The Madness of King George'' (1994), ''Gosford Park'' (2001), ''Vera Drake'' (2004), ''The History Boys'' (2006), ''The King's Speech'' (2010), ''Les Misérables'' (2012) and '' 1917'' (2019). He is also known for his roles in television such as '' Cranford'' (2007–2009), ''Gavin & Stacey'' (2007–2010; 2019), ''Upstairs Downstairs'' (2010–2012), '' The Paradise'' (2013), '' Crashing'' (2016), ''A Very English Scandal'' (2018), ''Killing Eve'' (2019), and '' The Chelsea Detective'' (2022). Scarborough is also an accomplished theatre actor and has twice won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; he won in 2011 for his role in the Terence Rattigan play '' After the Dance'' and in 2020 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's play ''Leopoldstadt''. Early life Scarborough was born and raised in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He attended Brooksby Melt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Wren
Amy Wren (born 14 October 1989) is an English actress. Personal life Wren attended ''Parsnips Youth Theatre'' in Harborough for four years. She was featured in the ''Mail'' in July 2006, when she and two others from Parsnips were chosen to be a part of the ''National Youth Theatre''. Career Wren started acting when she was talent spotted by Disney UK at the age of 16. She was then engaged for Disney’s comedy sketch show ''Life Bites'', playing the lead role as Chloe. She moved onto working with Nickelodeon in ''Genie In The House'' and '' Summer in Transylvania''. In 2010 she appeared in Andrea Arnold's film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel ''Wuthering Heights'', in which she played Frances Earnshaw. In 2016 she played Lady Evelyn Herbert in Guy Burt's TV mini-series ''Tutankhamun'' which is the story of the archeologist Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun Tutankhamun (, egy, twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn), Egyptological pronunciation Tutankhamen () ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Martin (rugby Union)
George Frederick Martin (born 18 June 2001) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers and the England national team. Early life Martin attended Rawlins Academy in Quorn, Leicestershire where he was selected for England's under-16 rugby union team. He then attended Brooksby Melton College where he was selected for England's under-18 side. He scored a try against France under-18 during their 2018 summer tour of South Africa and in April 2019 captained at the under-18 Six Nations Festival. Martin was part of Leicester Tigers two successive under 18 league titles. Club career In July 2019 Martin signed his first professional contract for Leicester Tigers. On 21 September 2019 Martin made his first team debut for Leicester in a Premiership Rugby Cup fixture against Worcester Warriors. On 7 July 2020 he signed a new contract with Leicester. Martin was named as BT Sport's man of the match for Leicester's wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
