Cecil Ross Burnett founded Sidcup School of Art in 1898 and was its first headmaster.
[1] The Sidcup building was demolished and the site is now occupied by a Morrisons supermarket which opened in 2003.
[6] Keith Richards was at Sidcup Art College from 1959, and described it as "a kind of guitar workshop" where classes were focused on teaching graphic design for advertising;[7] while there he became reacquainted with his primary-school friend Mick Jagger, then a student at the London School of Economics, and they formed what became the Rolling Stones.
An early line-up of the Stones, including Jagger, Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Ricky Fenson and Tony Chapman, played at the college Christmas dance on 12 December 1962.
[8][9] The Pretty Things, one of Britain's early R&B bands, was also formed at the college in September 1963; Phil May as well as Dick Taylor, a former bassist with the Rolling Stones, were students there.