1868 Kelly's Directory:
A Church Day School (Miss Weston, Mistress)
is mentioned -- but in no earlier directory
This "old school" was possibly at No.1
Church Lane which became the Schoolmaster's house
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1876 Kelly's Directory:
"Here is a Public Elementary School,
erected in 1872 by voluntary subscription, on a site given by Miss
Beckett of Somerby Hall. . . the old school
is now used for vestry meetings."
(In
fact, the land was given by Sir
Thomas Beckett of Somerby Hall)
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The school building was erected in 1872 for Springthorpe and Heapham children.
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The site was given by Sir Thomas Beckett of Somerby Hall
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It was built to house 100 children
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It was supported by voluntary contributions, Government Grant, and "childrens'
pence"
School Teachers:
| 1872 |
William Albert Egginton |
| 1876 |
Herbert Richard Heppinstall |
| 1881 |
John Thomas Tomline |
| 1889 |
Joseph Carr |
| 1892 |
David Dalton |
| 1899 |
Misses Adelaide and Margaret Outlaw |
| 1900 |
Miss Moore (later married Mr George Stephenson) |
| 1905 |
Charles Pearson |
| 1909 |
Ernest Enoch Barwick |
| 1919 |
Hermann F. Grylls |
| 1925 |
Miss Laura Enderby |
| 1933 |
Miss Hoyes, with Miss D Stephenson & Miss P. Northcliffe |
| 1944 |
Mrs Saynor - Headmistress |
| 1948 |
The school closed down and children transferred to Corringham C. of
E. School |
A School Reunion
2005
Documents relating
to the school
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