Walford & North Shropshire College is a further education college in Shropshire, England. Walford and Oswestry are where the two main campuses are based, although there are other smaller centres used throughout the county. In January 2001 Walford College and North Shropshire college (formerly Oswestry Tertiary College) merged, with Ron Pugh appointed principal of the merged college. After Ron Pugh retired, Andrew Tyley took over as Principal. The King Street Institute was founded in 1921 to meet the demands of the local mining and railway industries. 1n 1958 it moved to a site in College Road and became the Oswestry College of Further Education. In 1978 Oswestry Tertiary College was created during the Tertiary re-organization. It was renamed The North Shropshire College in 1991. It had three main campuses, College Road and Upper Brook Street in Oswestry and Talbot Campus in Whitchurch. It signed a federated college agreement with Staffordshire University in 1997.