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A History of the County of Middlesex
… stock. John Franklin by will proved 1790 gave £10 to both boys' and girls' charity schools, and £100 stock from which …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… schools existed in 1871 at Holy Trinity, Park Chapel (boys' and girls'), St Saviour's, and Exeter Buildings schools … Street. The largest roll in 1871 was 130 for Park Chapel (boys'), where the average attendance was 54. 27 The school … be spent on the technical education in Westminster of boys from schools in Chelsea. Apprenticing later became more …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… half to the master of the charity school to teach five boys and half to apprentice one every year. 13 The same … keeper of records in the Tower, in 1706. 14 Petyt's or the boys' charity school offered parishioners the only free … authoress Mary Astell (d. 1731) and others. 16 Both the boys' charity school and the Hospital school benefited from …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… parish lecturer William Rothery taught boarders and day boys including the botanist Thomas Martyn (1735-1825), who … opened a school which charged high fees but soon had c. 20 boys. It closed on his wife's death in 1775, despite its … and for foreigners, where it was recognized that some boys would not need Latin. 3 The Revd Mr Porter, who had …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… amalg., amalgamated; asst, assistant; B, boy, boys; bd, board; C, County; CE, Church of England; Cong., … girls; I, infant, infants; J, JB, JG, JM, junior, junior boys, girls, mixed; M, mixed; Meth., Methodist; Nat., … roll, numbers on roll; S, SB, SG, SM, senior, senior boys, girls, mixed; SBL, School Board for London; sec., …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Chelsea Benevolent Society (above) in 1918. 6 World's End Boys' Club was founded 1934 at no. la Lacland Place to help local boys aged 14-18 to make good use of their leisure. It … other functions held in Chelsea. 8 In 1940, though younger boys had been evacuated, it still had an average nightly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a subscription reading room, and another was open at the boys' school c. 1868-70. 51 There was a 'young men's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the income on providing £10 premiums to apprentice poor boys from those two places. The rent was still being used for … of awards, regularly given in two £10 instalments, made to boys from Soham was usually less than half, and often not … 1845-90, 10 or fewer c. 1900-14. From the 1850s such Soham boys were almost invariably apprenticed to craftsmen from the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… such schools. Half its income initially went to one for boys, half paid the mistress's salary for the girls' Sunday … 1,000 sittings, half free, with 250 more for children, the boys and girls in separate galleries. 47 To serve the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… work in the 1850s for more than 200-250 men and up to 60 boys. Many labourers remained dependent on casual employment …