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Alfreton Secondary Girls School
Category
Education objects
Date
1951
Materials
Paper
Measurements
211 mm (height); 66 mm (width)
Place of origin
Alfreton
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671343
Summary
A school exercise book with alternating lined and blank pages, bound with a card and paper cover. The spine is navy blue in colour and the handprinted paper cover has roughly drawn squares carrying a black and white shell like abstract pattern on a yellow ground. The book has twenty-six pages including the cover sheets that are deep red in colour. The last fourteen pages are blank and the earlier pages carry various details: itinerary, written script, maps and relevant photographs.
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
Inside the front cover: 'To be returned to 17 / JR CRESSWELL / FERNWOOD / 60, ASHOVER ROAD / OLD TUPTON / Nr. CHESTERFIELD' Inside the front cover: 'Joan Hill'
Makers and roles
Alfreton Secondary Girls School , engraver and publisher