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Horden Colliery Council School

Reference: E/E Catalogue Title: Horden Colliery Council School Area: Catalogue Category: Education Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1904-1973

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  • Horden Colliery Council School
    • Log books (Ref: E/E 15, 47, 61, 62)
    • School Governors' and Managers' Minutes (Ref: E/E/C 25)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: E/E/G 13, 139, 217, 276)

Catalogue Description

Horden Colliery Council School
Temporary school 1904-1906. Then Mixed and Infant School, with senior classes not long after.
Senior classes became Horden Modern Girls and Boys Schools in 1939
Later Horden County Primary School

Catalogue Contents

Log books (Ref: E/E 15, 47, 61, 62)

see also ND/Ea 3/21 - Junior Girls School log book 1909-1910, Junior Girls School temporary log book 1911-1912, Senior Girls School log book 1913-1950

Ref: E/E 15

Log book, 11 April 1904 - 1 June 1922 Mixed and Infant Temporary School 1904-1906 Mixed School 1906-1911 [Infant?] Boys School 1911-1922
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: E/E 47

Log book, 8 January 1912 - 19 July 1968 Junior Girls School 1912-1924 Junior Mixed School 1924-1933 Junior Boys School 1933-1940 Infant Boys School 1940-1968
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: E/E 61

Log book, 8 January 1912 - 22 December 1939 Junior Boys School 1912-1924 Senior Mixed 'Higher Top' Department 1924-1933 Senior Mixed School 1933-1939
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: E/E 62

Log book, 31 March 1911 - 8 January 1912 Temporary Junior Girls School 1911-1912
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

School Governors' and Managers' Minutes (Ref: E/E/C 25)Ref: E/E/C 25

Minutes, 3 January 1905 - 6 December 1973
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Miscellaneous (Ref: E/E/G 13, 139, 217, 276)Ref: E/E/G 13

Folder containing annual returns, teachers' salaries returns, papers re applications for teaching posts 1921-1965, returns of numbers of pupils, rules for annual school outing etc., for Horden Junior Girls School, 1911-1955
(1 folder)

Ref: E/E/G 139

Record of school camp at Melrose, Roxburgh, 29 July 1939 - 8 August 1939
(1 paper)

Ref: E/E/G 217

Black and white photograph of school football team, winners of the County Hospital Cup, 1924-1925
(1 photograph, 27 cm x 20 cm)

Ref: E/E/G 276

Note from District Clerk to Mr Hill, Horden Council School regarding employment of A. Stephenson as a new caretaker with particulars of his salary, 22 October 1925 Originally enclosed in E/E 15
(2 papers, printed)



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