ROWSLEY./ 1934
Grassmoor Central Girls School
Category
Education objects
Date
1934
Materials
Paper, leather and photograph
Measurements
205 mm (height); 195 mm (width)
Place of origin
Alfreton
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671385
Summary
A brown leather bound album containing black and white photographs. Handwritten in black ink on the front cover is 'Rowsley. 1934'. The photographs record the Grassmoor Central Girls' School's camp in and around Rowsley, Derbyshire. There are handwritten captions in ink. The contents are pasted onto alternating brown and green paper pages.
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: 'GRASSMOOR COUNCIL SCHOOL/ GIRLS.' On the paper label inside the front cover: 'To be returned to 8a/ JR Cresswell' On the paper label inside the front cover: 'FERNWOOD,/ 60 ASHOVER ROAD,/ OLD TUPTON,/ NR. CHESTERFIELD.'
Makers and roles
Grassmoor Central Girls School , compiler