Welcome to the Apley Park School and Millichope School web site.

Hi my name is Graham Jackson and I was a student at Apley Park Boarding School between the years of 1975 and 1980. During my time at Apley I was known as Moriarty. Apley Park School was located near the villages of Norton, Stockton and Sutton Maddock, which are a few miles from the town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire.

Well it's been a long time in coming but here is the new look Apley Park and Millichope School web site. As most of you know the original site was born in 1995 as a result of a project for a degree, and over the last fourteen years it has grown from a few pages to over two hundred pages.

Internet technology has come on a long way, and the new web site now uses PHP and MYSQL as its backbone, and the site is also W3C and CSS compliant. The advantage of being compliant is that the site will now work properly on other browser other than Internet Explorer, like Firefox and Chrome. The conversion from the old site to the new site has taken me months to complete and it's unlikely that I have achieved it without making any mistakes, so if you find anything wrong, can you please email me with the details.

This site mainly consists of information on Apley Park  School. Any information on Millichope School can be found in the dedicated Millichope School, section which can be accessed from the main menu on the left, the Millichope School section also gives details on the transfer from Millichope School to Apley Park School in 1962.

If you wish to register your details with the web site, fill in the Register with the site, form which can accessed from the Navigation Bar on  the side of the page.

Unfortunately due to Shropshire County Council education cuts in the eighties Apley Park School has now closed down. The last year of education was in 1987.

After Apley closed the building remained uninhabited for many years and suffered from horrendous damp problems and vandalism. The "Apley Hall Restoration Trust" then purchased Apley Hall and the surrounding buildings (Classrooms etc). The trust then started to restore the hall and surrounding buildings and eventually obtained planning permission to convert the hall into luxury flats.

In Feb 2004 the House went up for auction and was sold to developers Earlstone under the company name Apley Hall Restoration Ltd. Earlstone developed the Estate into 17 houses, apartments, and mews houses, with the House itself divided into five grand mansion houses, completed and sold in 2006-07 with the Apley Hall House incorporating the main entrance being the most expensive at £1.5 million, the others being the Library House, Georgian House, Garden House and Courtyard House. The surrounding 8,500-acre Apley Park estate is still owned, since 1868, by the Hamilton family's Apley Estate

I started the web site in 1995 as part of a project, initially the site consisted of around 8 pages and now the site contains around one hundred and ninety five pages - and is still growing! Over three hundred and eighty old boys have made contact with the site.

Most of you when visiting the site will be searching for friends from your year; the quickest way to achieve this is to click on Site Guestbook button on the navigation bar at the side of the page. When the page opens enter your search criteria into the form and press 'Search database'. The page will be updated with the search results.