Dunstable Grammar School

Dunstable Grammar School was established by the Trustees of the Almshouse Charity created by the Will of Frances Ashton.

A school library was built in memory of the former pupils who died in the Boer War and the Second World War, and a memorial in the library commemorated the names of the sixty-two boys who gave their lives, including Ashton Edward Thring, the only son of the school's first headmaster.

[1] and the Victoria Cross winner, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Henderson.

[2] The school remained in its purpose-built home from 1888 until 1971, when it was closed with the coming of the new comprehensive system of education.

The remaining schoolteachers and pupils moved to a new school at the opposite end of the town, the Manshead Upper School (now Manshead CE Academy).