GRASSMOOR/ CENTRAL GIRLS' SCHOOL/ CAMPS in DERBYSHIRE (crossed out)/ 12th School Journey/ Kinsgston-on-Thames/ 1938
Grassmoor Central Girls School
Category
Education objects
Date
1938
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Place of origin
Alfreton
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671398
Summary
A cardboard binding covered in dark brown paper. The title is handwritten in black ink on the front cover. The cream paper pages are filled with handwritten accounts of the activities of the school journey to Kingston-on-Thames and its environs including London. The accounts have been written by various pupils.
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 back cover: 'The record book/ from this journey/ has been sent and/ not returned./ The girls' essays/ are attached/ [JRC].' On a paper insert: 'To be collected during the/ holidays for the/ Camping Museum'
Makers and roles
Grassmoor Central Girls School , compiler