• Skip to main content
  • collections@thestorydurham.org
The Story logo

Durham Record Office

Durham County Record Office: the official archive service for County Durham and Darlington

You are here: Home / Catalogue Item

Catalogue Item

Escomb County Junior School

Reference: E/SW Catalogue Title: Escomb County Junior School Area: Catalogue Category: Education Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1893-1963

Access: Access to school records less than 100 years old is restricted under Data Protection legislation. Apply to county archivist for access.

Return to your search results
Related Information
  • Get help understanding and using this data

Catalogue Index

Use Expand image and Expanded image to reveal/hide the structure of the catalogue index (requires Javascript to be enabled in your internet browser options). Click to jump directly to information at a specific level of the catalogue.

  • Escomb County Junior School
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: E/SW/G70-G73)

Catalogue Description

Escomb County Junior School

Catalogue Contents

Miscellaneous (Ref: E/SW/G70-G73)Ref: E/SW/G70

Record of pupils over compulsory school age, 7 January 1952 - 22 April 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: E/SW/G71

Head teachers' register of the training of pupil teachers', 11 August 1905 - 23 May 1908
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Ref: E/SW/G72

Visitors' book, 7 January 1905 - 16 July 1941
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: E/SW/G73

Portfolio containing: H.M.I.'s reports (with Schedules of Grants given), 1893 - 1906; Examination schedules and duplicates, 1893 - 1895; Drawing examination schedules, 1894 - 1898; Papers re grants for Drawing in Elementary Schools, Drawing Examinations and Rules to be observed, 1893 - 1897; Papers, correspondence, agreements re Pupil Teachers, 1893 - 1904; Board of Education returns re number of teachers and children, attendance, subjects taught, etc., 1904 - 1940; Papers re teachers' applications and transfers, 1921 - 1932; Timetables for the teaching of gardening, 1925 - 1931; Papers, returns, etc. re teachers' and caretakers' salaries, 1917 - 1939; Miscellaneous correspondence, memoranda etc. principally from Board of Education and County Council, 1894 - 1938 (includes letter from Henry Stobart and Company, owners of Etherley Colliery, asking that the school stop charging fees as the Company wishes it to be entirely free, 1902); Printed circulars from the Board of Education, 1894 - 1904 (re pupil teachers, kindergarten, occupations, stone-throwing, curriculum of rural school, dangers of petroleum lamps, employment of children, eyesight of children, women teachers, religious instruction (includes a memorandum on physical training for rural schools drawn up by the Adjutant General to the Forces, c.1902))
(1 folder)



Durham County Council logo Accredited Archive Service logo

  • Legal Information | 
  • Accessibility Statement | 

Copyright © 2026 ยท Developed by Durham County Council