Darlington, Harrowgate Hill School
Reference: E/Da Catalogue Title: Darlington, Harrowgate Hill School Area: Catalogue Category: Education Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1873-1939
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Catalogue Description
Darlington, Harrowgate Hill SchoolOpened as branch of Darlington, St Paul, National School in 1873. The infants' department was established in 1876 and the rest of the school closed in 1877 to re-open as a board school in 1879. In 1894 the infants' school at Bowman Street re-opened as a boys' school while the girls and infants moved to Lowson Street. Bowman Street became a senior mixed school in 1921, and in 1931 the senior pupils transferred to North Road and Albert Road leaving the Bowman Street site for the infants. Lowson Street was used as an instruction centre for the unemployed for a while and then closed.
Catalogue Contents
Log Books (Ref: E/Da 42-45)Ref: E/Da 42
Log book, October 1873 - July 1916 (infants to 1876, boys from 1894)
Includes: p.256, discussion of whether dull child should be put back a class, 1888
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 43Log book (infants from 1876, girls from 1894)
Partially indexed in pencil, March 1876 - January 1902
Includes: good details of lessons taught
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 44Log book (boys from 1916, senior mixed from 1921), July 1916 - July 1930
Includes: p.100, H.M.I. report on gardening, 1920; p.147, H.M.I. report on re-organisation, 1923; p.211-222, H.M.I. report, 1926; loose school circular on medical examinations and exclusion verminous children, 1920 authority to examine child suspected of being verminous under Education Act 1921; regulations for refusing admission to school except at beginning term, 1922; letter from Mr. & Mrs. Habbick and family thanking children for singing anthem at funeral service, 15 February 1924; letter requesting that child may attend service on Ascension Day (printed form) endorsed with note 'first application of this kind in my experience', 21 May 1925; letter with H.M.I. report, 19 May 1926
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 45Log book (Junior Instruction Centre for the Unemployed), January 1936 - September 1939
Includes: list staff and qualifications
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
