GUILDFORD/ 1937
Category
Education objects
Date
10 Jun 1937 - 17 Jun 1937
Materials
Paper, card and photograph
Measurements
203 mm (height); 185 mm (width)
Place of origin
Alfreton
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671396
Summary
Brown paper binding with the title handpainted in black on the front cover. It is an album containing black and white photographs, colour postcards and newspaper clippings, which documents the Grassmoor Central Girls' School Eleventh Annual journey. This included London, Portsmouth, Windsor and Guildford. It contains postcards, three newspaper cuttings and nineteen photographs.
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/ GIRLS./ COUNCIL SCHOOL' Inside the front cover: 'To be returned to 14a/J R Cresswell.' Inside the front cover: 'FERNWOOD/ 60 ASHOVER ROAD/ OLD TUPTON,/ NR. CHESTERFIELD.'