Finedon Road Infants School Admissions – Names K-R
Admission Number Date of Birth Surname First Name(s) Parent/Guardian Name 226 06/03/1900 Kay Doris Alice 966 12/08/1924 Kaymasski Stanley Mrs Patrick 282 13/03/1902 Keech John Fred 193 28/12/1899 Keech Willie Jack 100 27/01/1895 Keightley George W George A 792...
Finedon Road Infants School Admissions – Names D-J
Admission Number Date of Birth Surname First Name(s) Parent/Guardian Name 870 14/04/1921 Dacre Evelyn Mary John William 1056 18/10/1929 Dacre Norman Vincent John 971 25/03/1925 Dacre Roland E John * JohnWilliam 476 nk/nk/1908 Dainty Ernest Kett Guard 917 09/05/1923...
Finedon Road Infants School Admissions – Names A-C
Admission Number Date of Birth Surname First Name(s) Parent/Guardian Name 936 03/08/1924 Abbott Brenda Doreen Olive Irene 964 13/10/1925 Abbott Denis Roland Olive 631 21/11/1913 Abbott Dennis Frederick 669 10/11/1914 Abbott Reginald Mary Ann 981 26/10/1926 Abbott...
Admissions to Finedon Road Infants School 1898-1935
Data researched and compiled by Maureen Moore, 2006The following pages are the transcription of the Admission Book to Finedon Road Infants School. There are two versions of the information: the index list in name order, with admission number and date of birth, and...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Part VII – Into the Twentieth Century
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)Church School Infants 1901Church School girls giving boys haircuts 1909This photo appeared in a "Down Memory Lane" feature in the local paperunder the heading "Any more for a short back and sides?" You didn’t have to...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Part VI – The Education Bill 1902
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)The following reasons are listed in the Parish Magazine for July 1902 under the Reasons for Passing the Education Bill. This article was written in view of the tension existing between the Voluntary and Board Schools...
History of Education i Burton Latimer – Part III – Building of Church School 1876
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)Aerial view of the two Church Schoolstaken in 1953In 1876, the Duke of Buccleuch donated a site for a proposed infant school and this was constructed in 1878 at a cost of £800. The headmistress, Mary Ann Stalker, was...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Part II – Elementary Education Act 1870
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)This Act provided for school boards to be set up in areas which were short of schools. The Education Department had the task of causing boards to be formed where necessary. There was a compromise on the religious...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Part I – 1596-1870
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)1905 Jacobean School and School Housewith Rectory in the backgroundThe first record of teaching in Burton Latimer is found in the Parish Church Registers for 1596 and 1602 as the following extracts show: “That the...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Part VIII – Babies at School 1905
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)This vexed question seems at last to be in a fair way of settlement. The Law at present compels all children over the age of five to attend School; until babies are this age no compulsion is enforced. The result is...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Part IX – Later Years
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)In 1961 the old St Mary's Infants School was almost burned down. Click the button to read the newspaper article.The original Endowed Grammar School is no longer a school but has been restored and used as a private...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Part V – Denominational Tension 1880-1900
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)The denominational tension, which was a feature of the Cross Report of 1888, was certainly to the fore in the education conflict in the village for the next 10 years. The conflict between the Church party in education...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Part IV – Observations on Latter Half of 19th Century
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005)Facts taken from Church records - Manager’s School Minute Book, Parish Magazines and Church School Log Books.The voluntary schools required annual subscriptions from parishioners in order to cover the cost of running...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Bibliography
Article by Margaret Craddock (1978, amended 2005) Church and State i English Education - Marjorie Cruikshank Church State and Schools in Britain 1800-1979 - James Murphy Educational Documents - J Stuart Maclure Mary Theophenia Shayler, Kettering School Mistres - L...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Appendix E
Income £ s d Annual Grant 425 9 4 Fee Grant 242 7 6 Aid Grant 32 0 0 Endowment(a) Inalienable vizHardingston Land,Savage's Close,and one year'scharge on land 33 11 11 (b) Alienable vizScott's CharityCottages 20 18 8 Annual Subscriptions 61 5 0 Church Offertories 21 2...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Appendix D
“That the Church Day School Managers and the Undenominational Day School Managers enter into the following agreement for a term of five years from 1 January 1899. That at the end of the period a conference be held of the two bodies of Managers with a view to a final...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Appendix C
ear 1885 1890 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1904 1910 Mixed 188 200 220 258 238 169 177 234 220 244 230 Infants 118 115 93* 220 192 106 102 98 120 106 149 TOTAL 306 315 313 478 430 275 279 332 340 350 379 * whooping cough epidemic Note: November 1898 - 50 pupils...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Appendix B
1589 Margaret Burbank (10 acres, and house - left to school (Burton Latimer parish) ANNUAL VALUE £30 1792 Revd Samuel Barwick (5 acres - left for the instruction of infants) ANNUAL VALUE £22 10s 1804 Church Land (115 acres) - left for the church) ANNUAL VALUE £19 15s...
History of Education in Burton Latimer – Appendix A
Year Population 1801 669 1811 705 1821 842 1831 995 1841 965 1851 1007 1861 1158 1871 1280 1881 1630 1891 1948 1901 2774 1911 3420 1921 3413 1931 3587 1941 None taken 1951 4111 1961 4402 1971 5417 2001...
East Lea Junior School – 1980’s
Pupils receive their prizes; Back row L to R; Peter, Sally, Adele. Middle row L to R; Yuk, Suzanne Edwards (who collected on her sisters behalf), Sarah. Front row L to R; Carriann and Jessica. Mrs Bieniasz is seated on left.A colouring competition has taught Burton...
Mr. Denis Burdett White
John Meads 2015 - using material provided by Dick WhiteMr. White, who taught at Burton Latimer County Junior School and its successor Meadowside Junior School, came toBurton Latimer in 1948. He had served in R.A.F. Bomber Command during the Second World War until...
Council School Days in the 1950s
A view of the Council Schools, taken from the north-east in 1950The Infants School is the building at the top left, The Junior School is at right-centreAs today, Burton had two sets of Infant and Junior Schools in the 1950s - the Church Schools in Church Street and...
Victory for Non Conformists
This entry appeared in the Letters column of the "Kettering Leader" for the week ending July 7th 1956. Transcribed by Sally Crane. Apropos my notes of a week or two ago mentioning the revival of a connection between the Church and education, a correspondent sends this...
Memories of the County Mixed School 1950s
Article submitted by Tony Palmer 2006 I left this school aged 15 years in August 1953. I was one of the last to complete my schooling there as after this year when the pupils were 11 years old they attended Henry Gotch School in Kettering. In the top class (Class 1)...
Teachers and Salaries
Article researched and presented by Margaret Craddock DATE NAME LEFT DECEASED SALARY 1587 THOMAS BURBANKE MARGARET BURBANKE 1596 EVERARD PIE HUMFREY STEVENS 1598 JOHN PARSONS 1615 ARTHUR SMITH 1619 EDWARD BACON 1621 GEORGE PLOWRIGHT- USHER 1648 JOHN FLOWER 1702...
Miss Stokes Inquest
Article taken from local newspaper dated June 1960, transcribed by Sally Crane. A 47 year old Burton Latimer school teacher who had been dieting died at Kettering General Hospital after she had been admitted in an extremely emaciated condition and suffering...
Death of Miss Stokes 1960
Article taken from the Evening Telegraph dated 9th June 1960, transcribed by Sally Crane.A teacher at Burton Latimer County Junior School for 28 years, Miss Florence Margaret Stokes died on Tuesday evening at Kettering General Hospital. An inquest was being held at...
St Mary’s C of E School Outing to London
On the left is Woolworths,Oxford Street with its Coronation decorations-photo courtesy of Woolworths museum website. On the right is Whitehall which is part of the Coronation route of the busses from St Mary;s School. Photo courtesy of Ben Brooksbank. St. Mary's...
St Mary’s Infants School late 19th Century
Article by Kate Coles A photo of an identified teacher and classat St Mary's Infants School in about 1900The log books for the school survive from 1863 and the admission registers from 1872. For the teachers of St. Mary's, it was a battle against all the odds to...
School Sports Teams Introduction and Index
Sports Teams from schools in BurtonThe Society is pleased to make available its archive of school team photos. If you can fill in any missing names, or have photos not featured here which you would be willing to share, please get in touch. If you have any Burton...
School Stage Collapses
John Meads from Northampton Mercury 3rd March 1905British Schools (Council School) 1914A large audience assembled in the British Schools, Burton Latimer, last night (Thursday) to hear the annual concert given by the scholars attending that school. Part I consisted of...
Gallery of School Photos
Most people in their time have brought home a class photo from their school. Sometimes these are put in albums, more often than not they are filed away in drawers, cupboards and cardboard boxes of some description. However, like photos of sports teams, they represent...
School Life in the 1950s
Article by Trevor Cooper, 2009Like many children in the 1950s, I started school at the age of four: there was no such thing in those days as Nursery or Playschool, so it was quite a shock to got from playing at home to attending school. It was in 1956 that I found my...
Schooldays Gallery 15 Dennis White
Thanks to his son Dick, we have a large collection of photographs taken by Dennis White when he was teaching at Burton Latimer County Mixed School and its successor Meadowside Junior School. The photographs we were given span the years from the late 1950s to 1979....
Schooldays Gallery 14 Margaret Sewell
. Left: Meadowside Infants' School Christmas Concert c1980/1 Back row: Joanne Hull, Katie Gorden, Santa: Mark Reilly, Lorna Johnson. Middle row: Michael Randall, Nicola Rollins, Sam Gorden, Jason Biles, Justin Cox, James Thompson, Christopher Jack. Front row: Dawn...
Schooldays Gallery 13
The Church School teaching staff c1915. Standing: L-R Len Johnson,Gerald Lansom, Marcia Hodson, William Miller. Seated: Gwen Coles, JosephBoardman, (Head) and Mabel LewisBurton Latimer Infants staff 1950s Mary Brawn, Mrs Williams, Mrs BrainesMiss Capon, Head, Hilda...
Schooldays Gallery 11
This page is the eleventh of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years. Playground Group - c.1952 Back Row: Dennis Ramsbottom, Tony Palmer, John Roberts, Neil Hawthorn, Barry Goodman, Mr WetherallMiddle Row: Maurice Chapman, Rodney Vilette,...
Schooldays Gallery 10
This page is the tenth of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years. Alf Messenger & Friends - 1945 Probably the sort of memento we all wish we had .... Alf Messenger and some of his friends fromhis schooldays in 1945 - Jean Bulley, Pearl...
Schooldays Gallery 9
his page is the ninth of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years.Pupils with teachers - early 1900s We have no further information on this photo, which was badly damaged when it reached us.There are about sixty children here, plus two...
Schooldays Gallery 8
This page is the eighth of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years.St Mary's Infant School Photo & Article from the Evening Telegraphof May 16th 1981 The text of the article is printed belowRain forced a school's May Queen crowning and a...
Schooldays Gallery 7
This page is the seventh of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years.St Mary's Church Infants School c.1948 An Infants School group with headmistress Mrs Doris Smith during a fete to raise funds forthe Church Fabric Restoration Fund Back...
Schooldays Gallery 6
This page is the sixth of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years. St Mary's Church School Pupils' "Gypsy Camp" early 1930s Back Row: Eileen Spanton, Daphne Eady, Phyllis Groom, Eva Brooks, Evelyn Cox, Jessie Wade Front Row: Lawrence Hendry,...
Schooldays Gallery 5
This page is the fifth of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years.Mr Harvey & boys in about 1924 Back Row: ---?---, ---?---, ---?---, ---?---, Joseph Whitney, ---?---,Front Row: ---?---, ---?---, Mr Harvey, Oliver Perkins, Geoffrey...
Schooldays Gallery 4
This page is the fourth of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years.St Mary's School - Senior Boys c.1910 Mr Boardman, Headmaster, stands at the back (r) of this group of senior boys,who seem to be dressed in their best clothes, as if going on...
Schooldays Gallery 3
This page is the third of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years. "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe ..." This was the Council Infants School entry in a Gala Parade (or similar) in about 1938. Standing at the back: 1. Tony Layng, 2....
Schooldays Gallery 2
This page is the second of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years. Mrs Fenton (formerly Miss Roberts) and pupilsat Meadowside Infants School in about 1971 L-R : Gary Eatock, Mrs Fenton, Sharon Fordham, Jeff Mills, Russ Chamberlain, -?-,-?-,...
Schooldays Gallery 1
This page is the first of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years. These were taken in addition to the standard Annual Class Photo. They offer a glimpse into an era which has now gone forever, but one which those who lived through the...
School Days Introduction
Children round the school Maypole at Burton County Infants School in 1942-3 Everyone will recognise that their school days made a huge impact on them, and memories may be happy, sad, or mixed. School plays a major part in young lives. After all, during term time...
Schooldays Reminiscence Page
This is the page where we add your reminiscences of your days at school in Burton. Please share your memories. Just use the Contact Us button at the bottom of the page and e-mail in your contributions, however brief. Just tell us the one thing or the couple of things...