Short answers, pulled from the story.
The year 1825 marked the birth of an art school in Liverpool that would outlast London's oldest institutions. This institution stood as the only English school of art outside the capital with an unbroken history from that date forward.
Thomas Cook submitted the winning plan which cost twelve thousand pounds to build and housed the school starting in 1883 within a structure designed by Thomas Cook. The building now holds Grade II listed status due to its historical significance and architectural merit.
In March 2012 the adjoining Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts purchased the former art school building for three point seven million pounds. LIPA intended to use the space to expand its own teaching facilities after the School of Art and Design moved out in 2008.
John Lennon studied at the school during a period that would define his early artistic development while Stuart Sutcliffe also attended classes there before turning fully to music. Clive Langer, Steve Allen, Tim Whittaker, Sam Davis, Steve Lindsey, John Wood, and Roy Holt founded Deaf School in 1975 as Fine Art students mixed with tutors from the college.
June Furlong served as a life model for forty-eight years from 1947 until 1995. That four-decade tenure made her one of the longest-serving models in British art schools.