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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with 5 per annum; and here is a charity for apprenticing boys, founded by Archbishop Montaigne, the annual value of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 120 children, and in the 1830's there were about 50 boys and 25 girls learning reading, writing, and arithmetic; … made their inquiry (18467) the school contained about 30 boys who attended weekdays and Sundays, 20 who attended on … the school was again rebuilt, to provide 130 places for boys, and seven years later there were 2 masters and 84 boys …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… writing, arithmetic, and the catechism to about 17 boys and 8 girls. He was said to be competent, although …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 92 At the end of the 18th century there were about 10 boys and 10 girls at the village school out of a total child … 3 d. was also payable for girls learning needlework. The boys, as was generally the case, were removed from school as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… School had its infants' department in the Isle and its boys' and girls' departments in Norfolk, and its successor … had still no school except a Sunday school, attended by 10 boys and 20 girls. 63 The Revd. W. G. Townley, Rector of … 1930's this school was practically full; there were 154 boys on the roll in 1935, in a department with 156 places. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Duke of Bedford had provided three schoolrooms, for boys, girls, and infants. 74 In all, 284 children (in a … department. 75 This building still exists, but the boys' school was rebuilt in 1875, in which year a Thorney … recognized accommodation was 328, afterwards 273 (106 boys, 89 girls, 78 infants). By 1925 both school buildings …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the 1860's. Soon after its establishment there were 35 boys, all over 6 years of age, receiving free education in reading, writing, and arithmetic, besides 16 boys whose parents paid 5 s. a quarter for reading and 2 s. a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… should be capable of teaching the resulting number of 40 boys as well as the fee-paying farmers' sons. He also … by a master and a mistress, open daily, and teaching 25 boys and 40 girls. 87 The boys' school was presumably Hardy's (q.v.); the girls' school …