Examination certificate
Pitman
Category
Education objects
Date
1928 - 1938
Materials
Card
Measurements
Each certificate - 210 mm (width); 268 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671110
Summary
Eighteen Pitman Shorthand Elementary Certificates numbered a-r. Each is printed in blue and black with a black and white photograph of Isaac Pitman at the top and signed by I.J. and C.E. Pitman. a) was issued to Margaret Ferguson, April 1938. b) to Winifred Knowles, April 1929. c) to Margaret Lill, April 1929. d) to Vera fearn, April 1933. e) to Barbara Kirkby, April 1938. f) to Donald Slater, April 1933. g) to John Spray, April 1933. h) to Marjorie Howard, April 1933. i) to Ethel Gregory, April 1932. j) to Dorothy Gregory, April 1932. k) to Constance L. Lomas, April 1932. l) to Ronald Waterfal, April 1932. m) to Gwendolen A. Wheeldon, April 1934. n) to Joyce Carson, 1938. o) to Enid M. Cave-Palmer, April 1937. p) to Chrissie Smith, April 1937. q) to John Statham, April 1938. r) to Ethel Turton, April 1928. Total number of items is 18.
Provenance
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."
Makers and roles
Pitman , maker