SCHOOL EXCHANGE May - June 1948
Alfreton Secondary Girls School
Category
Education objects
Date
May 1948 - Jun 1948
Materials
Paper
Measurements
215 mm (height); 265 mm (width)
Place of origin
Alfreton
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671344
Summary
A school project book detailing the school exchange between Alfreton Secondary Girls' School, Derbyshire and Hotters' Lane Secondary Girls' School, High Wycombe, May and June 1948. The book has a blue cardboard binding and is decorated with a paper pasted illustration front and back. This illustration consists of nine orange, blue and green flowers arranged in rows of three, with a black and green spotted background. Written in pencil on the front cover is the name of the school and the date. Inside the front left page is a piece of A4 paper folded in half and sellotaped along the top. This consists of printed information by Miss JR Cresswell, headmistress of Alfreton Secondary Girls' School depicting a brief outline of the reasons of the exchange, who went on the exchange and various other details including school trips undertaken. Pasted onto paper below is Miss Cresswell's name and address. On the opposite page is a black and white photograph of the pupils and teachers on one of the visit. The book contains six black and white photographs in total, depicting the visits and some are postcards. The rest of the book is made up of writings on the exchange by various pupils paperclipped into the book. Some of the paperclips have rusted.
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 left of the front page: 'To be returned to / JR Cresswell / FERNWOOD / 60 ASHOVER ROAD / OLD TUPTON / NR. CHESTERFIELD'
Makers and roles
Alfreton Secondary Girls School , engraver and publisher