INFANTS

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[Wrotham Church School, Kent.] Three manuscript school diaries or log books, one of them relating to the Infant School, covering the period 1872-1885, and the other two, relating to the Junior School, 1863-1939.

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George Barham (1831-1914), Master, Wrotham National School (Kent) Mixed School; Annie Georgina McCowen et al, school mistresses, Wrotham National Infant School, Kent
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[Wrotham National Junior and Infant Schools, Kent.] 1863-1939.
£850.00

These three log books, covering a period of nearly eighty years, constitute an attractive piece of social history, charting the growth of a rural school from precarious beginnings to a secure state on the eve of the Second World War, and providing a vivid example of the change in the British educational system from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

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Manuscript school diary or log book.

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Rockingham Road Infants School [Kettering School Board, Northamptonshire]
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1891-1925.
£300.00

Quarto. 502 paginated pages, preceded by thumb index. Book by Knight & Co. of Fleet St, Local Government Publishers, and with printed title-page reproducing extract from 'New Code, 1871', regarding keeping of school log books. Half-bound in faded red-cloth and worn buff calf. Spine detached along one side. Internally sound. An invaluable piece of local history, containing a mass of information about curriculum, pupil numbers, illness, staff. Signed by various school inspectors.

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