Darlington, St. Cuthbert, School
Reference: E/Da Catalogue Title: Darlington, St. Cuthbert, School Area: Catalogue Category: Education Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1863-1931
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- Darlington, St. Cuthbert, School
Catalogue Description
Darlington, St. Cuthbert, SchoolThis was a national school set up in 1812, although there was a sunday school from about 1795. In 1824 a school was built in Leadyard with a boys and girls department. An infants' department started in 1874. The departments merged in 1922. In 1931 the school closed, most of the senior children going to Darlington, Beaumont Street School and the juniors and infants to Darlington, Borough Road School.
Catalogue Contents
Log Books (Ref: E/Da 53-59)Ref: E/Da 53
Log book (infants), January 1874 - July 1908
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: E/Da 54Log book (infants), August 1908 - March 1922
loose inspectors report on religious education 1921
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: E/Da 55Log book (boys), July 1863 - December 1892
Partially indexed; details of arithmetic lessons and number of children doing them correctly; p.420, 70 boys in fight with boys from Central school, 1887
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: E/Da 56Log book (boys, mixed and infants from 1922), January 1893 - May 1926
References to children admitted unable to read, discipline problems and truancy ('slipping')
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: E/Da 57Log book (girls, infants till 1874), July 1863 - November 1895
p.404, list of backward children, their ages and difficulties, 1890
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: E/Da 58Log book (girls),November 1895 - March 1922 indexed
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: E/Da 59Log book (mixed and infants) May 1926 - February 1931
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
