1885 Hughes Hall

At the beginning of 1885, a committee met in Miss Clough's rooms in Newnham to discuss the need for improved facilities for the training of women teachers. As a result a new college opened in the autumn of the same year. It was then known as the Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers

The College's first Principal was Miss E P Hughes, from whom the College would later take its name. In the first year, the Principal and 14 students were accommodated in a house at Newnham.

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