Darlington, Bondgate School
Reference: E/Da Catalogue Title: Darlington, Bondgate School Area: Catalogue Category: Education Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1823-1936
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Catalogue Description
Darlington, Bondgate SchoolWesleyan Methodist school which opened in 1858 with infants, girls and boys departments. Before that the Wesleyans had run a Sunday School and a Girls' day school was set up at Skinnergate in 1823. The Education Authority took over the school in 1908. The junior girls and infants combined in 1923, the senior girls having transferred to Darlington, Kendrew Street School in 1919. The boys' school also became a junior school in 1912 and later combined with girls as a mixed junior and infants' school in 1928. The school closed in 1936 when the children transferred to Darlington, Beaumont Street School.
Catalogue Contents
Log Books (Ref: E/Da 22-27)Ref: E/Da 22
Log book (infants), May 1863 - July 1897
Includes monthly returns, April 1875 - May 1876; lists school activities, 1889 - 1897 on p.399, 403, 438, 441, 477
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 23Log book (infants), October 1897 - July 1923
Includes: p.299, list of staff 1913 - 1922
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 24Log book (girls), May 1863 - November 1901
Includes: reports indexed monthly returns, March 1876 - October 1884; good details lessons taught with lists songs, recitations and object lessons; p.488, French lessons started, 1899; p.497, 'instructive walk'
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 25Log book (girls), January 1902 - July 1936
Contains good details on lessons and includes: p.14, walk to teach general knowledge; p.68, prize giving, with programme and scholarship results; p.80, excursions in connection with project on Durham and Richmond; p.175,181,186,199, details of schools to which pupils transferred, 1924 - 1928
Ref: E/Da 26Log book (boys)May 1863 - October 1887
Includes: references to undiscipline and absenteeism; p.479, boy expelled; monthly returns, July 1872 - October 1878; p.31, financial return by managers, 1863; p. 37, list of boys leaving school and reasons; p.60,89, list of boys, with ages and length of time in school, 1865, 1866; p.88, financial return to government, 1866; p.161, list of prize winners and prizes given, 1866
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref: E/Da 27Log book (boys), October 1887 - June 1928
Indexed; p.135; clay modelling, 1875, p.257; results of pupil teachers' examination, 1901, p.367-373; resignation of headmaster, Thomas Hall, because of struggle between trustees and local education authority, 1908, loose, memo about revised school fees, 1906
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Miscellaneous (Ref: E/Da/G2)Ref: E/Da/G2Attendance register (Sunday School), September 1823 - August 1830
With minutes teachers' meetings, Sunday School Society and general committee of Sunday School Society
(1 volume, spine quarter-bound)
