Examination certificate
East Midland Educational Union
Category
Education objects
Date
1937 - 1938
Materials
Card and paper
Measurements
Each certificate - 330 mm (width); 280 mm (height), Sheet of paper - 200 mm (width); 260 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671111
Summary
Three cream card certificates and a typed cream sheet. The three certificates all have a black and white leaf motif border. Within this border is 'East Midland Educational Union' and the year in red. All are signed by the president and secretary. Two are for Kenneth Sydney Taylor, dated 1937 and 1938, the other was awarded to Gerald Wallace Witham in 1938. The printed paper is typed with 'East Midland Educational Union, Examinations 1937' and awards Frank Hursthouse a second class in carpentry and joinery (practical) grade 1. Total number of items is 4.
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
East Midland Educational Union, maker