Held at:

Longtown Community Primary School

Reference:

School records

Source:

Original volumes

Title:

Digital Archive [INDEX]: Introduction to Longtown School log books

Place name:

Longtown

Date:

1873 - 1910

Description:

A school ‘for the education of children and adults or children only of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes in the Township of Longtown’ was opened in about 1869. The school was built on land donated by the Marquis of Abergavenny and soon after opening was funded under provisions of the 1870 Elementary Education Act which enabled compulsory education for children from age 5 to 10, later extended to 12.

 

Head teachers were required to keep log book records of ‘ordinary progress’: these entries provide an on-going record of the school which can be seen in our digital archive. The Ewyas Lacy Study Group are indebted to the governors of Longtown Community Primary School for permission to publish some 900 pages covering the years from 1873 to 1910. They provide in vivid detail a record of the early formative decades of compulsory schooling in a rural community.

 

Head teachers named (year of starting]:

1872–74 John Davies, WH Thompson, Henry Hill, George Wyham (all temporary)

1875 Thomas Driffield

1878 Thomas Lawrence

1886 David William Jenkins

1889 H Bell, Richard Rhydderch, James L Mitchell, Richard Parry (all temporary)

1890 John William Nichols

1893 Charles William Dyer

1894 AR Moreton, F Wareham, Joseph Makinson, (all temporary)

1894 Joseph Helliwell                                                                         

1900 George Harris

1904 Albert May

 

Click the links below to see photographs of entries for relevant dates:

 

Volume 1873-1894

Volume 1894-1907

Volume 1907-1921
[cut off at 1910]

 

Many themes emerging from the log books have been drawn together in a research paper: ‘Self portrait of a village school: Longtown school log books 1873-1910 which can be seen on this website. (Click here to see)

 

 

 


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