GRASSMOOR CENTRAL GIRLS' SCHOOL. CAMPS in DERBYSHIRE. Lea. 1931.
Edith Plant
Category
Education objects
Date
3 Jul 1931 - 10 Jul 1931
Materials
Paper
Place of origin
Alfreton
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671378
Summary
An exercise book in a cardboard binding covered in brown and orange paper. The title is handwritten in black ink or paint on the front cover. On the cover is a white label giving a name and address for the book to be returned to. The binding encloses an exercise book with a grey paper binding on which is printed in black ink 'The Derby Series. Nature Note And Sketch Book', and handwritten the name 'Edith Plant' and 'Camp 1931 – Lea Hill Farm'. Inside is a description in text and pictures of a camp to Lea Hill in 1931.
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 label on the front of the outer binding: 'To be returned to 5./ JR Cresswell' On the label on the front of the outer binding: 'FERNWOOD,/ 60 ASHOVER ROAD,/ OLD TUPTON,/ NR. CHESTERFIELD.' On the front cover of the book: 'N. Wingfield Girls School/ Camp 1931 - Lea Hill Farm'
Makers and roles
Edith Plant, author Grassmoor Central Girls School , compiler