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ST MARY'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL, BYFLEET: LOG BOOKS, PUNISHMENT BOOK AND ARCHITECTURAL PLANS, 1872-1966; COBHAM PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS: POSTER, 1883
Reference Number: 6731
Descriptive Information about the Record (click to expand) Provenance Deposited by Mr HE Robinson, former headmaster of St Mary's School, Byfleet, in October 1999. Having worked in aircraft production and the munitions industry during the second world war, both in Birmingham and London, Mr Robinson began teacher training in 1947 at the University of London. Once qualified, he taught at the junior school in Cobham for 10 years from 1948. In 1958, he took the position of deputy head at St Mary's School, Byfleet, taking over as head following the death of the existing headmaster in the early 1960s. Mr Robinson retired from teaching in 1973.
-The records - Related records For annual returns to the Board of Education by St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Byfleet, 1921-1963, and school medical officer certificates, 1938, see CC742/1-42. For Woking Education Committee attendance cards for Byfleet Church of England Mixed and Infants School, 1916, see 4169/3. For attendance registers of St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Byfleet, [c.1940]-1952, see 6659/-.
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series: 6731/ - ST MARY'S C OF E SCHOOL, BYFLEET Date: 1872-1966 Log book ... Title Log book Reference 6731/1 Unit Date Jan 1872 - Feb 1894 Start Date 18720100 End Date 18940200 Log book. Also includes names and career record of school staff at t... Title Log book. Also includes names and career record of school staff at the front of the volume. Reference 6731/2 Unit Date Feb 1894 - Apr 1908 Start Date 18940200 End Date 19080400 Log book. Also includes dimensions of the school and names and caree... Title Log book. Also includes dimensions of the school and names and career record of school staff at the front of the volume. During the Second World War, the school received evacuee children and staff from schools in London and northern Surrey. The evacuees were merged with the Byfleet pupils and staff and lessons were held both at the school and in the village hall. The first evacuees arrived on 1 Sep 1939 and by 6 Nov, the school had received 99 evacuees from Sacred Heart RC School, Merton Abbey School and Bushey School, all in Merton; and the London County Council schools at Brandelhow Road, Putney, and Peterborough Road, Fulham. The log book records that many evacuees returned home in the months after Christmas. On 1 Jul 1940, the school received 50 more children and teachers from Waller Road Junior Middle School, Deptford, who had originally been evacuated to Brighton. Reference 6731/3 Unit Date May 1908 - Dec 1946 Start Date 19080500 End Date 19461200 Punishment book. [At the time of deposit Mr Robinson stated that from... Title Punishment book. [At the time of deposit Mr Robinson stated that from the date of the last entry in this volume, corporal punishment was no longer employed at the school by any of the staff and no subsequent punishment book was ever ordered.] Reference 6731/4 Unit Date 27 Mar 1908 - 21 Oct 1966 Start Date 19080327 End Date 19661021 Photocopy (nd) of a block plan of Byfleet National School (later St M... Title Photocopy (nd) of a block plan of Byfleet National School (later St Mary's School, Byfleet) Reference 6731/5 Unit Date nd [2nd half of 19th cent] Start Date 18500101 End Date 18991231 Photocopy (nd) of the front elevation of Byfleet National School (lat... Title Photocopy (nd) of the front elevation of Byfleet National School (later St Mary's School, Byfleet) Reference 6731/6 Unit Date nd [2nd half of 19th cent] Start Date 18500101 End Date 18991231
series: 6731/ - COBHAM PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS Date: 19th CENT Photocopy (nd) of a printed poster advertising an entertainment to be... Title Photocopy (nd) of a printed poster advertising an entertainment to be given by the Red Rose Minstrel Troupe at the Parochial Schools, Cobham Reference 6731/7 Unit Date nd [19th cent] Start Date 18000101 End Date 18991231
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