Dartington College of Arts in 1961 as a consequence of the original Dartington Hall experiment in rural regeneration. Academic degrees were validated in partnership with the University of Plymouth in 1975. Dartington College of Arts became part of University College Falmouth on 6 April 2008 and, in 2010, relocated to Falmouth, Cornwall. Leonard Knight Elmhirst, the founder of the Dartington estate, was a member of the Bloomsbury group from the 1920s. The college and Hall became a popular arts location for such figures as Julian Bell, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf. Dartington has also received special attention from Ravi Shankar, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma
S Group Today, many of these buildings are protected by law. The S Group also operates the "Sokos" chain of department stores, "ABC" service stations, the hotel chain "Sokos Hotels", several brands of restaurants such as "Rosso", "Sevilla" and "Amarillo", the "Agrimarket" chain, which sells agricultural and DIY supplies, and a number of car dealerships for Peugeot. The S Group operates Finland's first so-called "supermarket bank", the S-Bank (S-Pankki Oy). S Group The S Group (, ) is a Finnish retailing cooperative organisation with its head office in Helsinki. Founded in 1904, it consists of 22 regional cooperatives operating all around Finland