Hymn sheet
Category
Education objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cotton
Measurements
35 mm (width); 295 mm (length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 667968
Summary
A square piece of cream coloured fabric on which is printed hymns and illustrations in a brown coloured ink. The title reads ' Sabbath School First Instituted By Robert Raikes In Gloucester In The Year Of Our Lord 1782'. The text surrounds an illustration of Robert Raikes, with illustrations of two children reading on either side. Below this are two lines of music entitled 'Sabbath School Hymn', followed by the words from this hymn. Below this is another hymn entitled 'We Never Part From Thee'. Below this is a verse entitled 'The Golden Rule'. At either corner are illustrations. One is of a church and the other is of a woodland scene. A tie on label attached to the corner of the hymn has the number '14.4.54/ 7'. On the reverse is stamped in ink 'Derbyshire Ed. CTTEE, Museum'.
Provenance
'Derbyshire Museum Service History of Education Collection' - a collection established by Derbyshire Museum Service (through gifts from individuals, Derbyshire schools and purchases) in the 1940s and stored at Sudbury Hall from the early 1970s to 2012. The National Trust managed the collection between 1991 and 2012 when legal ownership was transferred from Derbyshire County Council to the National Trust. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."