Bath College of Domestic Science

The prospectus for domestic subjects offered "Household and High-Class Cookery, Laundry Work, Dressmaking, Stitchery and Ornamental Needlework".

In its early days the College's students had a uniform of a bright red blouse, black full-length skirt and white apron, and they were nicknamed "the scarlet runners".

[2] In 1934 the Domestic Science College moved to a building in Brougham Hayes which had been built as the Somerset Industrial School for Boys in 1832.

[6] In the emergency of wartime in 1939 this building was taken over by the Admiralty and the College moved to The Elms, a large house in the Weston area of the city, returning to Brougham Hayes in 1944.

In 1942 German bombing destroyed the original premises at Green Park[7] but also flattened a large private house called St Winifreds at Sion Hill which was to become its future home.

[11] Post-war student residences included Claverton Manor until 1956, after which work began on converting the building into the American Museum in Britain.

[12] Planning for a new building at Sion Hill began after the war and the new Domestic Science College "built at a cost of £200,000 came into use in September 1959.