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Convent of St Louis, St Andrews Castle, St Andrews Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1927
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A Roman Catholic School was opened in Bury St Edmunds in 1892 adding an infant school in 1894. From 1924 the school was run by the Sisters of St Louis, and in 1929 they moved their convent and school to the fantasy St Andrews Castle, built in 1815 for the Boby family, and sold in 1927. The building housed the living quarters for the Sisters with classrooms for their Convent school, and was surrounded by gardens and playing fields. The gatehouse remains, while the main house has been adapted for commercial use, with houses and flats on the adjoining land to the north. Some of the buildings in the grounds remain in use as the modern St Louis Middle School.
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Convent of St Louis, St Andrews Castle, Bury St Edmunds, St Andrews Street
Date:
nd
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Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, County Grammar School
Date:
nd
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In 1904 the West Suffolk Education Committee established the County Grammar School ,which moved in 1907 to a large Georgian red brick house built for a local banker, opposite the old Grammar School, and extended in 1907. Boys and girls received general grammar school education, with Domestic Science for girls, manual craft for boys, and an Officers Corps. In 1964, when the County School for girls moved to Beetons way, the premises were use by the Technical College before alteration to commercial use.
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County Grammar School, Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
early 1900s
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Domestic Science class at West Suffolk County School and Pupil Teacher Centre in Northgate Street. The girls made their own aprons and sleeve guards before learning cookery, table etiquette and household duties.
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East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1930
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Upper playing field with school, Headmaster's house on the far right, and cycle sheds and workshops on the left. In 1881 the Wesleyan School for Middle Class Boys moved to Highlands House, a new villa and 11 acres redesigned by W Eade FRIBA, on Thingoe Hill [Northgate Avenue]. In 1935 the boys moved to Culford Hall to be replaced by girls until the amalgamation of Culford in 1972. The Headteacher's House and adjoining part remain within a prestigious residential development extended over the grounds.
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East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1930
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Founded in 1881 as the Wesleyan Boarding and Day School for middle class boys, 'where the religious training should be soundly Protestant, the teaching thorough and terms moderate ......' and a full staff of resident masters for Music, Shorthand, Drill and Carpentry.
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East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1900
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Assembly Hall surrounded by classrooms and a large gymnasium with corridor leading to staff rooms, dining and cloakroom facilities and stairs to first floor classrooms, art room, laboratory and sickbay. Advertised in 1900 as buildings 'well ventilated and drained ,and in every respect admirably designed to their purpose...the diet is good , liberal and varied and every effort is put forth to ensure the health and comfort of the boys.'
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East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
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Laboratory in the Wesleyan Boarding and Day school, with workbenches furnished with sinks, gas bunson burners and jars of chemicals, with locked cupboards for dangerous substances.
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East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1930
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Classroom with standard wooden desks and dais with blackboard for the teacher who would wear his scholastic gown. Advertised in the Kelly Directory 1935 as providing 'a completely efficient education on modern lines with sound training for the professions, Universities and business careers'. Headmaster, John Skinner 1924-51.
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East Anglian School for Boys, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
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Laboratory in the school with pupils on stools at workbenches, furnished with sinks, gas bunsen burners and jars of chemicals. Pupils were prepared for London and Cambridge University examinations, Scholarships, Higher and School certificates in Science.
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Miss Girdlestone's School, Whiting Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
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Mistresses Minnie Hungress and Eliza Staff (sisters ) and pupils , with a small stage in the background, at Miss Girdlestone's private school for day pupils at 82 Whiting Street.
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Guildhall Feoffment School, College Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1865
Caption:
In 1842 the Guildhall Feoffment Trust set up a Poor Boys School in Bridewell Lane, and the nearby commercial school fronting on College Street was built in 1846. This school provided non-denominational secondary education for 150 Bury boys to fit them for ' business pursuits, the Professions and Civil Service' and educating them in 'English and other languages, in writing, arithmetic, geography, history ' ( White's Directory 1844) with practical tuition in book-keeping and surveying. The building was designed by Henry Kendall, with two small stepped gables, now gone. On the left were the arms of Bury St Edmunds and on the right, those of Jankyn Smythe, founder of the Guildhall Feoffment Trust. In 1931 the Feoffment Schools amalgamated and in 1936 incorporated the Poor Girls School in Wells Street.
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Guildhall Feoffment School, Bridewell Lane, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c1865
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By 1842 the Guildhall Feoffment Trust set up a Poor Boys School on Bridewell Lane, followed by the Commercial School in 1846. Three hundred Bury boys of all denominations received elementary education in 3Rs, history, geography, and practical subjects such as gardening. The building was designed by Henry Kendall in red brick and flint in domestic gothic style. In 1931 it amalgamated with the Commercial School as the Guildhall Feoffment School, incorporating the Poor Girls School in 1936.
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Miss Amelia Hitchins' School, Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[c 1865]
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Pupils at Miss Amelia Hitchins' select establishment for young ladies, having a game of croquet on the lawn. There had been a school here (no.42 and 43 Southgate Street) before Miss Hitchins took it over in 1864.
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Miss Amelia Hitchins' School, Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[c 1865]
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Miss Amelia Hitchins' School, Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
[c 1865]
Caption:
Close up group photograph of the pupils and school mistresses of Miss Amelia Hitchins' school. The photograph shows very well the fine dresses and hairstyles of the period.
