GRASSMOOR CENTRAL GIRLS' SCHOOL CAMPS IN DERBYSHIRE Roston 1935
Derbyshire Schools' Camping Association
Category
Education objects
Date
1935
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Measurements
233 mm (height); 188 mm (width)
Place of origin
Alfreton
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671386
Summary
A white cardboard binding on which is stuck brown and orange paper. Handwritten in black ink on the front cover is 'Grassmoor. Central Girls' School. Camps in Derbyshire. Roston.1935'. The binding contains a blue exercise book wrapped in a brown paper binding with a yellow and red school emblem attached and the initials 'G.G.C.S.' in black ink. Inside are hand coloured maps and drawings and text relating to a school camp in Derbyshire in 1935. There are twenty six pages, some lined and some plain.
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 exercise book: 'To be returned to 9/ J R Cresswell.' On the label on the front cover of the exercise book: 'FERNWOOD,/ 60 ASHOVER ROAD,/ OLD TUPTON,/ NR. CHESTERFIELD.'
Makers and roles
Derbyshire Schools' Camping Association , engraver and publisher J. R. Cresswell (fl.c.1930 - 1952), compiler