GRASSMOOR CENTRAL GIRLS' SCHOOL. CAMPS in DERBYSHIRE. Rowsley 1934.
Dorothy Howell
Category
Education objects
Date
29 Jun 1934 - 6 Jul 1934
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Place of origin
Alfreton
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671384
Summary
A cardboard binding covered in brown and orange paper. The title is handwritten in black ink or paint on the front cover. The binding encloses a red paper bound exercise book covered in a grey paper jacket decorated with a green, yellow and white circular shape and the name 'Dorothy Howell' and the initials 'G.G.C.S.' both in black ink. Inside are maps, illustrations and text describing a school camp to Rowsley in 1934.
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 cover of the outer binding: 'To be returned to 8./ JR Cresswell' On the label on the front cover of the outer binding: 'FERNWOOD,/ 60 ASHOVER ROAD,/ OLD TUPTON,/ NR. CHESTERFIELD.' On the label clipped to the front cover of the exercise book: 'To be returned to/ Miss J R Cresswell/ CENTRAL GIRLS' SCHOOL,/ GRANGE STREET,/ ALFRETON.'
Makers and roles
Dorothy Howell, author Grassmoor Central Girls School , compiler