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Wedgwood Memorial College is a small residential college in Barlaston, near Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. The college was owned and operated by Stoke-on-Trent City Council until it was closed in March 2012.〔http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Bid-save-college-Wedgwood-Memorial-College-fails/story-15678351-detail/story.html#axzz2S8NWB7jS〕 It still houses the centre of Esperanto education at Estoril House. There is also a similarly named building in Burslem, the Wedgwood Institute, which is sometimes called the "Wedgwood Memorial Institute". This is a completely separate institution. The college, a member of the Adult Residential Colleges Association, offered short courses in literature and languages (French, German and Esperanto); political science and history; and art, art history and architectural history.〔(College Tutors )〕 Wedgwood Memorial College has a non-circulating library with 15,000 volumes available for research and private study.〔(College Library )〕 The buildings were also rented out for weddings, parties and small conferences, with eight rooms available that accommodated from ten to 40 people per room.〔(Seminars and Small Conferences )〕 One of these rooms is the Montagu C. Butler Library, located in Esperanto House on the grounds of the college. ==History of college== The Barlaston estate was acquired by Wedgwood in the 1930s, and the college opened in February 1945 in Barlaston Hall, a country house. The building was endangered by coal mining operations and a geological fault, which caused major diagonal cracks in the walls. The college moved from Barlaston Hall to Victorian and Edwardian buildings in Barlaston village. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wedgwood Memorial College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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