Here is the front gate of St Tibb's High School, not far from Mettleham town centre. The grounds were once the home of the Viscount Marringdon and his family but, in the early 1850s, the estate got into large financial trouble and was sold off. A newly-founded corporation looking to set up an all-girls boarding school to cater to a gap in the educational provisions of the region bought it and, over two years, converted it to a building suitable for boarding and teaching. And thus St Tibb's was founded, and has been teaching girls 11-18 ever since. The only major change it saw was to convert from being a boarding school to a day-attendance school in 1967. The original walls surrounding the estate are still standing (being on the National Heritage List For England to protect historic and architecturally important constructions) and these are what are shown in the picture. Being a listed structure, the walls cannot be altered (not without much paperwork and possible fines being imposed) to widen the road, so the driveway leading up to the main school building can only accommodate modern vehicles going one way at a time. This does increase the safety for the girls going through the entrance, of course. A wider entrance for service vehicles exists at the back of the school but that is more prosaic and much less interesting to see, and students are discouraged from entering the school grounds at that point because of the increased risk from traffic and the fact the path up to the Hall and other academic buildings goes past workshops, storage areas, and other places off-limits to students. (Posed and rendered in PoserPro 11, uniforms created in Marvelous Designer 9.5, postwork in PSP 2022.) (In this picture, left to right: Praanvi Kayal, Zhang Xiulan, Amelia Jobson, Nadia Swinley.)