ALFRETON SECONDARY GIRLS' SCHOOL 1948
Category
Education objects
Date
1948
Materials
Paper
Measurements
244 mm (height); 194 mm (width)
Place of origin
Alfreton
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671338
Summary
A cardboard book with a string binding. The front and back covers have a red rectangle on the spine side, with yellow string tied in a knot threaded through two holes, all the way to the back of the book. The decoration on the front and back covers consists of fifteen squares with a painted brown and yellow 'leaf' type design, red wavy lines and yellow and brown spots. This pattern is repeated in each square. A paper label on the inside left page reads as follows; 'To be returned to 20, JR Cresswell'. The book details a school exchange between Alfreton Girls' School and High Wicombe Secondary Girls' Schools between Thursday 27th May and Thursday 3rd June 1948. Two A4 pages are sellotaped to the first left page giving the reasons for the exchange and who went with a list of subjects for study and composition. The book contains stapled and tied work detailing the exchange including an itinerary, maps, geology, nature, history, literature of various places visited.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by N. C. Cresswell. 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."
Marks and inscriptions
On the front left of the insde page: ' To be returned to 20 / JR Cresswell / FERNWOOD / 60 ASHOVER ROAD / OLD TUPTON / NR CHESTERFIELD'