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The thirty-fifth school of the Manchester School Board is now in the course of erection upon a site in Wheeler-street, Higher Openshaw. It will supplant, when completed, a school in Lees-street where instruction is at present provided for 880 children, the new school being designed for the accommodation of 1,180.
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Apr 9, 2021 · One of the brothers was Sam Geddes, who was an Arts Master at Wheler St school in the very early years of the 20th century. The classroom picture shows him and the headmaster with a class of boys; no girls. Perhaps they had a separate part of the school, or were taught in segregated classrooms.
- The Town Grammar School
- Philanthropy and The Education of The Poor, 1700–1800
- Education and Social Change, 1780–1830
- Education as A Private and Denominational Enterprise, 1830–70
- The School Board Era, 1870–1902
- Adult and Technical Education, 1830–1900
- The Growth of A Local Educational System After 1902
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A grammar school apparently existed in Hullearly in its development as a chartered borough,no doubt to maintain a supply of Latin-trainedclerks. From references to School Street and SchoolLane in 1347, the school seems to have stood on thesouth side of Holy Trinity churchyard, a little tothe west of the present Vicar Lane. (fn. 2) Entries in thecha...
The Grammar School apart, Hull's only publiclyprovided school was in Charity Hall, the town'spoorhouse. Here, intermittently at least, pauperchildren were taught a useful trade and sometimesreading and writing. Later in the 17th century theywere fitted out with a blue-coat uniform, the boyshaving shoes, stockings, and caps like those atChrist's Hos...
The 1780s saw the beginning of a period of rapidexpansion which in the next half century transformed the educational scene in Hull. The increase in population provided the incentive; thegrowth of trade in the port provided the means, inthe form of middle-class subscriptions; and theleadership came from a group of public-spiritedmen moved by a new s...
Between 1830 and 1870 the population of Hullmore than doubled, producing new working- andmiddle-class residential districts to be provided withschools. Private speculation and denominational zealtried to meet these needs. Dame- and commonday-schools, often kept part-time, provided much ofthe popular education, mostly for 2d. or 3d. a week;but their...
The thirty years following the Education Act of1870 saw an unprecedented expansion of publicelementary education. Hull's population in 1870was about 120,000 and the children of school agewere about 20,000; disregarding private provision,publicly-provided school places totalled some 12,000,only 8,512 children were enrolled, and averageattendance was...
For two decades or more after its foundation theMechanics' Institute was an important educationalinfluence in Hull. It provided in the winter months'courses of lectures in natural and experimentalphilosophy, practical mechanics, astronomy, chemistry, literature, and the arts', and for some time at anyrate classes in more elementary subjects; it was...
Under the Education Act of 1902 the City andCounty Borough of Hull became a local educationauthority to provide elementary and higher education in consultation with the new Board of Education. From 30 September 1903 the EducationCommittee of the city council took over from thedefunct School Board all the schools it had controlled; from the Technica...
Nearly 11,000 places were lost during the warthrough bombing; many school buildings weredamaged and some wholly or partially destroyed. (fn. 191) The war over, some 2,000 children returned fromevacuation, and when the leaving age was raised in1947 another 4,000 were added to the schoolpopulation. That population leapt from 36,102 in1945 to 41,544 i...
This list includes charity, voluntary, proprietary,board, and council schools, and also secondarymodern schools formed in or after 1945 out ofsenior departments of pre-1945 elementary schools,and still in their original premises in 1963. It doesnot include private schools or institutions of adultor higher education. The high schools for art andcraf...
All these schools were established in new buildings except (i) Boulevard High School, which occupied the 1895 building previously used by KingstonHigh School and, later, by Riley High School; and(ii) Wilberforce High School, which was housed inthe Leicester Street building which served HullGrammar School from 1892 to 1953. The columns indicate: (1)...
Like other young children from working class backgrounds in the early 1900s, my brothers and I started our education at what was known as a Board School. It was Silver Street School in Edmonton, which was well situated at the edge of a large housing district in Edmonton.
Dec 3, 2009 · Sheffield has one of the best surviving collections of early board schools in England, unparalleled outside London. Following the 1870 Education Act, Sheffield’s newly elected School Board vigorously set about constructing new schools, completing 39 before its demise in 1903.
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Aug 16, 2012 · Did anyone go to Wheeler Street school in Openshaw. Would love to hear your memories. I went there in the late 50's, early 60's. B.G. Logged.
