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By 1840 the institution offered evening classes, lectures, a library and a boys' lower and higher school. By the 1850 s a School Of Art was evolving out of the evening classes. In 1856 this diversity was recognised by another name change – The Liverpool Institute and School of Arts. In the 1880s a new building adjacent to the principal building on Mount Street was opened to house the School of Art. This and post 18 provision was moved into what was to become Liverpool Polytechnic , now Liverpool John Moores University . In 1905 the Liverpool City Council took over the management of the secondary schools in the Mount Street Building. Up until 1985 the secondary school for boys then called The Liverpool Institute for Boys, and the Art School became the predominant activities in the Mount Street buildings. The Liverpool Institute for Boys was a Grammar School with an excellent reputation. The list of distinctions at Oxford and Cambridge runs to some 300 names – this is aside from the distinctions gained at The University Of Liverpool . Miscellaneous distinctions included the highest national scholarship offered at the time, as well as a Nobel Prize winner. The school was a true measure of Liverpool’s intellectual capital. Aside from Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison , the comedian Arthur Askey , theatre impresario Bill Kenwright , politician Stephen Norris and broadcaster Peter Sissons were amongst the most distinguished ex-pupils in the performing arts. Alan Durband , one of the founders of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre , was Paul’s English teacher. In 1985 the Liverpool Institute for Boys was closed. (Copied from http://www.lipa.ac.uk/standard/aboutlipa/pottedhistory.asp#1825 ) Sir Paul McCartney created the Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts in the old school building. LIPA opened in 1995 . SEE ALSO
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