In support of the school at Waters Upton WATERS UPTON. SALE OF WORK. On Tuesday, a two-days’ sale of work was inaugurated here, the objects being to wipe off the debt recently incurred by the enlargement of the schoolroom, and also to rai…

Additions to my website continued last night (including Part 2 of Waters Upton in World War 2: Dorothy Tudge, Land Girl🔗), and today I have added In support of the school at Waters Upton🔗 for the Society’s #OnePlaceEducation blogging prompt. Enjoying a run of #OnePlaceStudy productivity! #Shropshire

Amazing—we are going to have to expand our prompts idea to include books as well as blog and social media posts! Let us know when your #OnePlaceEducation volume is published. 😀 #OnePlaceWednesday

The history Education in the Parish of St Mary Bourne is currently planned to be in book form, hence why I have shared less than I anticipated as part of #OnePlaceEducation.

I wrote a book proposal a few weeks back for my local history society and they have said go ahead 😀

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Knitting for the Army During the 1920s and 1930s Miss Hawksworth’s classes at Aldbourne village school were taught to knit vests with untreated wool (still full of lanolin) and learned how to knit socks, using fou…

Miss Daisy Muriel Hawksworth (1886-1965) teacher at St Michael's School, Aldbourne taught her pupils the art of knitting socks on four needles.
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St Mary Bourne Primary School, Swampton We Are [showcasing your family history like never before]

1861 saw the opening of the new school (current) in #StMaryBourne. It was quite a grand affair as detailed in a newspaper report at the time.

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Photo of children and teachers in front of the National School in the Church Rooms next to Castlebrook House in Nunney, Somerset.

Here it is: Part 15 - the final part! -of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

After the 1870 Education Act made school compulsory school up to age 10 (later raised to 13), Nunney’s school in the Church Rooms next to the church was extended. 🧵 1/~

Castlebrook House in Nunney, Somerset.

Part 14 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

The Turner charity (which is still going today) provided a house for the schoolmaster (Maudsley House, now called Castlebrook) and an annual salary. 🧵 1/~

It likely meant scaring away crows & other birds from seeds / crops, as mentioned by @thefutureproofassistant.com in this #OnePlaceEducation thread. In the newspaper article, ‘Mr. Morris told of how he started work at the age of nine picking cider apples and “crow-starving” at 4d. a day’. #GenHour

Group photo of children of the National School in the Church Rooms in Nunney, Somerset.

Part 13 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

Yesterday, we looked at the role a rapid turnover of local clergy played in the challenges getting children to school in Nunney. Today we take a closer look at the Rev. Thomas Theobald’s family. 🧵 1/~

Watercolour painting of the Victorian school built in Aldbourne 1857, demolished in the 1960s and replaced by the present buildings.

Photographs and artefacts showing classes and buildings and faces from the old school days in Aldbourne, including Olive's watercolour on display in 2007.

Scrummy cake made to celebrate the school's 150th anniversary

Watercolour of the old school in Aldbourne by Olive Cowen née
Robinson, who along with her brother Patrick was evacuated to the village during WWII. The painting was put on display at the 150th birthday exhibition at St Michael's School in 2007.
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Nunney Castle and village from the church tower during a summer fête.

Part 12 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

The Rev. Thomas Theobald was rector of Nunney from 1830 until his death in 1877. The Theobald family had been in Nunney since 1749, when they inherited the manors from the Whitchurch family. 🧵 1/~

Rockfield House in Nunney, Somerset. The ballroom on the right is a later extension.

Part 11 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

The Rev. John Ireland was Nunney's local vicar as well as lord of the manors of Nunney Castle and Nunney Maudley (titles he bought, with the castle, in 1836) and lived at Rockfield House. 🧵 1/~

Education ​The theme for #52Ancestors this week is Education and I thought I would tell you about the links I have with Punnetts Town Community Primary School in East Sussex.    Punnetts Town is the...

#OnePlaceStudies I wrote a blog a couple of years ago about my research on #PunnettsTown School and my great aunt Eva Pilbeam who had been the Head. #OnePlaceEducation www.sussexgenealogist.co.uk/blog/education

Map showing Frome and surrounding villages in Somerset.

Part 10 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

Let's look at the personal influence of the local clergyman and squire in setting up and running local schools. We'll come back to Nunney, but first we must pay a visit to neighbouring Whatley. 🧵 1/~

Map showing Frome and surrounding villages in Somerset.

Part 10 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

Let's look at the personal influence of the local clergyman and squire in setting up and running local schools. We'll come back to Nunney, but first we must pay a visit to neighbouring Whatley. 🧵 1/~

Nunney Church and Castle in Somerset.

Part 9 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

In many rural communities it was down to the personal influence of the local clergyman or squire whether boys generally remained at school one or two years longer than in a neglected parish. 🧵 1/~

Manor Farm House next to Nunney Castle in Somerset.

Part 8 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

Mr Croome rented Manor House Farm from lord of the manor Mr Theobald. He had 400 acres, of which only 80 were arable - mainly corn and potatoes. He employed three women plus two boys from Cloford. 🧵1/~

A child stands in the Market Place in Nunney, Somerset. A castle and thatched cottage are visible on the right.

Part 7 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

Although 8th in size of the English counties, Somerset had more grassland than any other county except Yorkshire. It also had more breeding stock than any county except Yorkshire and Lancashire. 🧵 1/~

Two children in the Market Place in Nunney, Somerset. Nunney Castle is visible on the left.

Part 6 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

Nunney made headlines in 1851 when it became the first place in England to persuade employers to stop paying part of wages in cider, a major victory for the very active local Temperance movement. 🧵 1/~

Schools and schoolmasters - Janealogy An overview of schools at North Walls and Brims, Orkney, from the 1860s. Developments, memories and some photographs.

Do like a #OnePlaceStudies blog prompt where I’ve written quite a lot already #OnePlaceEducation #Scotland #Orkney #OnePlaceWednesday janealogy.co.uk/north-walls-...

The Crown Inn (left) in the Market Place in Nunney, Somerset, circa 1909.

Part 5 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

In the 19th century large quantities of alcohol were consumed. In 1876 beer consumption throughout the United Kingdom reached an all time high when 34.4 gallons (275 pints) per person were drunk. 🧵 1/~

Old School Cottages, Swampton, St Mary Bourne We Are [showcasing your family history like never before]

Very brief (intentionly) notes on the old School House in #StMaryBourne.

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My search was for blogging prompt #OnePlaceEducation info. The book I found did lead me back to that subject as my OPS ‘tree’ reminded me that Gwyneth Mountfort’s aunt Minnie Owen, innkeeper of Waters Upton’s Lion Inn in 1921, was an elementary school teacher in Ruthin in 1911. #OnePlaceWednesday

Headline from the Herald and Advertiser 22 April 1949. Village sold to pay king's debt. How Aldbourne nearly became a township. Rich both in history and industry and now a rural gem. Photo features the Rev Gilding who is interviewed later in the clipping.

Raising £5000 for Church. As we walked through the garden to the churchyard in the morning sunshine, a cuckoo called. The Vicar pointed out "we have the finest preserved church tower in Wiltshire, and the village is trying to raise between £4000 and £5000 for a new church school and repairs to the church". He went on to explain confidently "We've already raised £600 within the last three years by whist drives, dances and sales of work; that represents over 10 shillings per head of the population, and we are hoping the diocese will help a little. The present school is 90 years old, the only school there ever was in Aldbourne. The senior children now go to Marlborough for their lessons, but 80 youngsters are still taught in the village.

Aldbourne School founded in 1857. Photo taken shortly before demolition of the old school building in the early 1960s. Part of the old school does remain between the church and playground of the new school. Photo from the Aldbourne Photographic Club/Civic Society archive.

The new school entrance in 1971. Photo from the Aldbourne Photographic Club/Civic Society archive.

Newspaper cutting found in a shoe-box and released into the wild on social media this week. Rev Gilding reported on the fund-raising for the new church school in Aldbourne in this article from April 1949. The new school opened in 1963.
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Nunney Castle in Somerset, with haystacks.

Part 4 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

In the census of 1851, agriculture was still the largest occupation for all ages. Over 73,000 boys aged 10-14 worked in the countryside. Over 10,000 girls worked as ‘live-in' farm servants. 🧵 1/~

Lewis W. Hines (photographer), “Bibb Mill No. 1,” Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Online Catalogue.

Part 3 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

Families in Nunney in the 19th century had a choice of sending their children to work in the factories in Frome - and staying there overnight for 6 days a week - or working in the fields. 🧵 1/~

Boy holding a horse.

For centuries, children were employed on the farm from an early age in Britain because of a desperate need for income for struggling families, a shortage of available labourers or farmers employing their children because they were unable to pay hired labourers. 1/~ #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️

If I blogged regularly, this 1893 school bill to my GGF for his daughters' education would be my focus for #OnePlaceEducation

My grandmother was 9, and her sisters were 11 and 14.

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Bird Scaring – March, Sir George Clausen (1852–1944), image credit: Harris Museum & Art Gallery.

Throughout Somerset until the late 19th century it was common for boys and girls to be taken out of school far earlier than the authorities thought advisable - at age 5 in some cases, but 8 or 9 was more common. They were mainly employed for a
month or six weeks at a time. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️ 🧵1/~

I created an exhibition about child labour and the struggle for education for all in the village of Nunney, Somerset. Throughout March I will regularly post highlights. #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceEducation