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Cornsay Colliery British Mixed later Cornsay Colliery Council School

Reference: E/NW Catalogue Title: Cornsay Colliery British Mixed later Cornsay Colliery Council School Area: Catalogue Category: Education Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1876-1973

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Catalogue Description

Opened in 1876. Became Cornsay Colliery Council Junior Mixed School, 6 September 1905. Later became Cornsay Colliery Junior Mixed and Infants School, then Cornsay Colliery Council School.
For Admission Register see D/X 2287/1/1

Catalogue Contents

E/NW Cornsay Colliery British Mixed (Ref: E/NW)Log books (Ref: E/NW 21-22, 95)

1 May 1876 - 1 May 1906
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


1 May 1906 - 21 December 1944
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


9 January 1945 - 18 October 1973
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

School Governors' and Managers' Minutes (Ref: E/NW/C13)

13 February 1905 - 30 August 1938
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Miscellaneous (Ref: E/NW/G)

Returns listing numbers of pupils and some names of teachers, 1907-1945
(1 file)


Schedule of Accommodation, 1926
(1 paper)


Special registers listing children who attended school camps, including name of teacher, June 1936-July 1939
(1 file)


Syllabus Book including names of teachers, some with subject specialisms. Also notes on school organisation and special events, 1965-1967
(1 file)

Photographs of children in the classroom during various lessons, n.d. [late 1960s] (Ref: E/NW/G 233(1-23))

Photograph of unidentified children in the classroom working at a table, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom reading books, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children in the classroom working at a table, planting bulbs in pots, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom weighing [?cooking ingredients] on scales, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom with various cooking ingredients, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom at a sink playing with plastic boats, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom at a sink playing with bottles and jugs, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children in the classroom working with numbers and counting blocks, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children in the classroom working with counting blocks, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom working with science apparatus, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom working with test tube and Bunsen burner, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys and teacher in the classroom working with test tube and Bunsen burner, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children in the classroom working with microscopes, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children and teacher in the classroom playing with building blocks, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom playing with building blocks, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children in the classroom pointing at a clock [?learning to tell the time], n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children and teacher in the classroom with measuring tapes, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children in the classroom painting at easels, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children in the classroom weaving strips of paper, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified girls in the classroom playing with dolls and pram, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children and teacher in the classroom with musical instruments, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys in the classroom playing with a painted [?tepee] wearing painted headbands made of card, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children on a climbing frame in the school halls, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)

Photographs of school productions, n.d. [late 1960s] (Ref: E/NW/G 234(1-2))

Copy photograph of unidentified children in a school production, some dressed as fairies or angels and others dressed in Chinese costume, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 16cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children in a nativity play, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 25cm x 17cm, black and white)

Photographs of children outside in snow, n.d. [late 1960s] (Ref: E/NW/G 235(1-3))

Photograph of unidentified children and teacher outside in snow, standing on the edge of a circle drawn in the snow, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified children outside in snow, standing in a circle holding hands, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of unidentified boys playing outside in snow, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)

Photographs of displays created by children, n.d. [late 1960s] (Ref: E/NW/G 236(1-7))

Photograph of a display created by children, including a man in Chinese costume, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of a display created by children, including a man in Chinese costume, same as in E/NW/G236(1), but with unidentified boys and teacher arranging the display, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of a display created by children, including two women in Chinese costume and a tree, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of a display created by children, including two women in Chinese costume and a tree, same as in E/NW/G236(3), but with two unidentified girls arranging the display, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of a display created by children, including large painted dragon, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of a display created by children, including large painted dragon, same as E/NW/G236(5), but with children arranging the display, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 21cm x 14cm, black and white)


Photograph of a display created by children, including painted house and two painted [?medieval or fairytale] figure, with a group of unidentified children looking at the display, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 25cm x 19cm, black and white)


Copy permission by A. J. Dawson on behalf of the Secretary of Higher Education, given to W. Kirkup, School Street, Cornsay Colliery to attend Durham Girls' Secondary School to qualify for admission to a training college, 23 January 1918 [Originally enclosed in E/NW 22]
(1 paper, printed)