The pupils at Betlehem School wore simple school uniforms, and the school was nicknamed after the clothes’ colour on the collar. It was called the Green School, and some of the parents preferred to pay day by day fines, rather than sending their children to school! Why would they do that?

The Bedlam was a public nursing institution for mentally ill people. The Bedlam, which was started in 1762, was probably a place for the keeping rather than the nursing of the ill. Either way it was an improvement to the care offered to the mentally ill in the past – the basement under the Town Hall, right next to the prison.

For boys wanting an education at university, the Grammar School was for centuries the only school offering this opportunity. Still based on a curriculum from the Middle Ages, the Grammar School needed educational reforms by the middle of the 18th century. A new school building was erected on the other side of the Cathedral as a boarding school for pupils in need of an education based on more modern and practical subjects.

St Marie’s School had an international flair. Still, “international” may be to draw the long bow. The school was German, the pupils were German and the teacher was German. Many pupils were children of soldiers belonging to the a "private soldier company"; the Delmerhortsian Company.