Darlington, Beaumont Street School
Reference: E/Da Catalogue Title: Darlington, Beaumont Street School Area: Catalogue Category: Education Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1886-1966
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- Darlington, Beaumont Street School
Catalogue Description
Darlington, Beaumont Street SchoolA Board School which opened in 1886 to accommodate children from Bank Top, Skinnergate and Bridge Street. It had senior, junior and infant departments. In 1908 the juniors moved to Darlington, Bondgate School and the boys moved into the vacant department while the girls remained in the senior school. In 1920 it became a true senior school for the eleven to fourteen year olds. In 1936/7 the juniors were reunited with the infant department and the senior children moved to Darlington, Eastbourne School. The school closed in 1966 and the children moved to Darlington, Skerne Park School.
Catalogue Contents
Log Books (Ref: E/Da 9-16)Ref: E/Da 9
Log book (infants), March 1886 - July 1936
Includes: attached to p.347, three forms with authority to disregard attendances when they fall below 60% because of epidemic illness, 1927
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 10Log book (girls), August 1908 - April 1937
Includes: p.131-147, H.M.I. report, 1926; p.171-179, H.M.I. report, 1930; p.214-222, H.M.I. report, 1935
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 11Log book (juniors from 1886, senior boys from 1908,) March 1886 - November 1925
Includes: p.22, table of passes in reading, writing and arithmetic, 1887; p.202-206, summary of work for 1901; p.323-326, H.M.I. report, 1910; loose, newspaper cutting about school board's decision to provide books for use in schools, 1894; letter from Education Office arranging transfer of teacher from Albert Road Boys, 18 March 1919; two letters from Education Office about permission for boys to leave school before end of term in which reached 14, 1920
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 12Log book (senior), March 1886 - November 1894
Contains many references to discipline problems and difficulties of getting children to do homework, also parental complaints about ill treatment of children, including: p.42, list passes in class examinations, 1887; p.86, notice about payment school fees for pauper children; p.230, talk with children about strikes as some boys threatened strike action in school, 1889; p.451, newspaper cutting about prize distribution, 1894; p.462, circular on salaries for assistant teachers, May 1894; loose, newspaper cuttings (2) about prize distribution, 1887
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 13Log book (senior), December 1894 - December 1904
Includes: p.314-323, summary of syllabus, 1901; p.340, newspaper cutting about Old Boys Dinner, 1901; p.341, newspaper cutting about prize distribution, 1901; p.392, newspaper cutting about Old Boy's Dinner, 1902; p.393, newspaper cuttings about prize distribution, 1902; p.426, newspaper cutting about prize distribution, 1902; p.428-429, newspaper cuttings about Old Boy's Smoker, 1903; p.439, newspaper cutting about prize distribution for French, 1903; p.447, list of pupils awarded Scripture Prizes; p.453-4, newspaper cuttings about prize distribution, 1903; loose, newspaper cuttings about Central School Museum (n.d.) and Old Boys Dinner, 1902; note from parent excusing Ethel Yates from school early to attend music lesson, n.d.; note on J.W. Nicholson who won scholarship to Cambridge after receiving early education in Darlington and Middlesborough, n.d. (c.1900); programme for prize distribution, 1901
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 14Log book (senior), January 1905 - September 1908
Contains many references to pupils winning scholarships, including: p.4, newspaper cutting about Old Boys Dinner, 1905; p.13, newspaper cutting with list of successful candidates for admission to pupil teacher preparatory classes, 1905; p.27 , newspaper cutting listing winners of Flounder's Scholarship at North Eastern County Schools, 1905
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 15Log book (senior boys), November 1925 - July 1936
Includes: p.6-14, H.M.I. report, 1926; p.85-92, H.M.I. report, 1935
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 16Log book (domestic centre) January 1911 - January 1925
Includes: attached to first page, programme for opening centre, 24 January 1911; p.149, list of teachers and qualifications; last page, list of elementary schools and their official numbers
(1 volume, spine leather bound)
Admission Registers (Ref: E/Da/F30-31)Ref: E/Da/F30Admission register (infants), 1925 - 1936
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: E/Da/F31Admission register (junior mixed and infants), 1936 - 1946
(1 volume, card bound)
Miscellaneous (Ref: E/Da/G52)Ref: E/Da/G52Punishment register, 1909 - 1966
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
