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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 61 with pure water, decent houses, allotments and a school' instanced by a present-day writer as 'the most … was erected in the village in c. 1880. SCHOOLS The village school, like most of the public institutions in the village, … £225 between the five of them. In 1850-1 the girls' school was rebuilt with an infants' department. 75 This …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1950 was reopened for its original purpose and as a Sunday school. GUILDS There were three guilds at Tydd St. Giles, … of the 19th century. 65 They are both still in use. 66 SCHOOL In 1789 Tydd St. Giles was one of the sixty-eight parishes in the diocese without a school. 67 Dr. Jobson, reporting on the state of the schools …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in St. Mary's village about 120 yards west of the school are also noteworthy, though late in date (early 19th … of Wisbech 1802-28, bequeathed £100 to support a Sunday school at Guyhirn and £200 to establish another at Murrow. 63 … An Anglican mission room, formerly used also as a school, was erected at Thorney Toll in 1872. NONCONFORMITY …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… towards augmenting the salary of the Master of the Grammar School, and half towards providing corn and firing for poor … the capital burgesses should nominate. In 1837 the Grammar School master drew £20 from this source. The revenue from … acres of land at Elm to augment the salary of the Grammar School master. Dr. Henry Hawkins, a native of Wisbech who …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Revd. Jeremiah Jackson, Headmaster of the Grammar School and later vicar of Elm, who was eleventh on the list, … in 1820. In the following year some windows in the Grammar School were broken after Hill's failure to get elected. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the guild in a favourable light; it supported a grammar school and many charitable objects in the town. 40 The chapel … where was afterwards the first Town Hall and Grammar School; this building still exists. The late E. J. Rudsdale …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at the present sidings on the South Brink near the Grammar School, but in the following year the line was prolonged to … buildings remaining in Wisbech; the Old Grammar School, Hill Street; Nos. 49 to 51 Horse Fair, early 18th … The Peckover family lived at Harecroft House, now the High School for Girls. Gardiner, Hist. Wisb. 199. The building …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… offered the house to the capital burgesses for the Grammar School, but they had hopes of obtaining possession after … debate in 1824, when it was suggested that the Grammar School should purchase Dr. Whitsed's house (formerly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Alexandra Road, in the premises formerly used by the Art School and earlier still by the infants of the British School. 37 A movement for a working men's club started in … the Wesleyan Methodist Reformers, 60 and later as an art school. The building still stands and is used by a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 96 In 1820 the society maintained a flourishing Sunday school and also the General Baptist Academy. 97 Three years … Passage was purchased for a burial ground, and on it a school was built in 1836. This was used by the Sunday school and by the girls' British school during the week. 98 …