Durham Summary/ or/ General Register (No 4 )
John G. Cromwell
Category
Education objects
Date
1884
Materials
Paper
Measurements
380 mm (height); 240 mm (width)
Place of origin
Side, 56 to 66
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671660
Summary
A school register book with a stiff multi-coloured (red, blue, white and yellow) looped patterned motif. A white paper label on the front reads 'Durham Summary or General Register (No4) by JG Cromwell MA, Principal of St Marks College, Chelsea. There are twenty seven pages.
Provenance
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 front cover: 'Bradley and Geldesky National School/ April 1st 1885.' On the front cover: 'Bradley and Geldersley N School/ April 1st 1885.'
Makers and roles
John G. Cromwell , author Robinson Randlo , printer