Salisbury College Of Art

A Memory of Salisbury.

In 1960 this was the main building of Salisbury College of Art. The college specialised in photography, fine arts and, when I joined, was one of the first provincial art colleges to award a recognised graphic design qualification. It also offered courses in hairdressing and sign writing. There were several very popular tutors, Tony Brown, Fox-Talbot (not the original) and Charles Cusden among them. Mr Cusden, who had previously been my art master at Bishop Wordsworth School, went on to have his own television programme on the arts.
As the college grew it expanded to take in other buildings in Salisbury including what is now the older part of the coffee shop opposite the entrance to St Thomas's Church. Here was printing and typography with studio space on the first floor.
Earlier in the 1900s the New Street building had also housed the Bishop Wordsworth School's girls.