The Garton End Technical College established in 1946, was the predessesor to the Regional College (previously known as Peterborough Technical College) and Brook Street - Peterborough College of Adult Education.
From Wikipedia:
Engineering firms Peter Brotherhood and Baker Perkins relocated to Peterborough just after 1900 and by the 1930s British Thomson-Houston (which became Hotpoint), Newall Engineering and Mitchell Engineering were well established. Peterborough was already an important railway centre providing a great deal of work for the populace, but with all this industry there was no local provision for training.
With the onset of the war in 1939 the major engineering firms had to expand to produce munitions and other vital military equipment. The demand for skilled men, and also now for women, escalated but there was nothing in the education or training field to cope with this demand. The industrial expansion continued but it wasn't until 1944 that the Soke of Peterborough Education Committee established Advisory Committees for Engineering and Building and reorganised courses into the Senior Evening Institute of Commercial and Technical Students, Junior Evening Institute and Adult Institute. Classes were held all over the city but in 1946 temporary premises were erected on land in Garton End Road to provide space for engineering subjects. Pressure from local firms with education and training policies resulted in the Education Committee supporting a plan for Peterborough Technical College, initially at the Garton End Road site.
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My father went to the Technical College in the late 1940s whilst an apprentice at British Thomson-Houston which became Hotpoint.
The temporary premises built in 1946 were subsequently used for the school,the school closed Garton End in 1979, and it was demolished when Ascot Drive was built.
This picture shows the buildings during the 1970s.