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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D3435/1/3 |
| Title | Log book |
| Date | Apr 1929-Jul 1949 |
| Description | Including a copy of the Director [of Education]’s letter to the Vicar about keeping and using school log books, plus detailed weather records 1927-1939.
The index has been used to record details of staff including addresses, when they started and left, etc. This information is also recorded under subject, e.g. ‘Cookery’ lists the various cookery teachers and when they started. The index has also been used to record other information such as the names of the May Queens and the children receiving free milk in 1934.
The log book indicates that much gardening work was undertaken at the school, and they seem to have run gardening classes for the boys and the school gardens get mentioned frequently. In 1946 (page 243) the HMI report says: ‘The garden, three quarters of a mile away, is an inheritance of doubtful value from the days of a class of seniors.’ |
| Extent | 1 volume |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Middleton by Wirksworth Primary School |
| Access Category | CLOSED |
| Closed Until | 01/08/2045 |
| Access Conditions | This record is closed for 96 years from the date of the last record, because they contain data relating to living individuals. Please contact us for further information. |
| Privacy Notice | Data Subjects in Archives Privacy Notice |
| Format | Document |
| Term | School milk |
| Gardening |
| Accidents |
| Second World War (1939-1945) |
| Evacuees |
| Evacuation |
| Weather |
| Air raid precautions |
| Aerial bombardment |
| Winter |
| Heating |
| Temperature |
| Cars |
| School log books |
| Transcript or Index | Selected extracts:
- Page 74 – Tues 15 January ‘About 2.30pm, during the process of blasting operations on some disused machinery at Hopton Wood Stone Firms Ltd, large pieces of metal fell on + around the school. Huge pieces fell in the gardens where boys were at work (no notice of firing was given) + some fell through roof into Senior Girls’ Needlework Room. As girls were suffering from shock, Senior girls were sent home at, approx., 2.45pm
- Page 129 – Wed 13 Sept 1939 Five evacuees (3 from London, 1 from Manchester + 1 from Birmingham) began school here today.
- Page 139 – Mon 29 Jan 1949 – village snowbound – 5’-8’ deep all round the school.
- Page 146 – 29-30 Aug 1940 A number of children came in late owing to the air raids in the night. Today, Friday Aug 30th the air-raid warning sounded at approx. 11am and as children can all reach shelter in 5 minutes or less they were immediately sent home.
- Page 151 – from here onwards the attendance percentage for evacuees is written in red ink
- Page 152 – Jan 1940 – a note about ARP (Fire-watching) for schools and the fact that the Home Guard are doing this for the school as the teachers can’t. Details where buckets of water and stirrup pumps are.
- Page 166 – Christmas term 1941, the number of evacuees drops from 3 to 1. Doesn’t go back up (to 2 evacuees) until May 1942, then drops back to 1 by Aug 1942.
- Page 183 – In 1942 there seems to be a Government ban on central heating which means that in November when it’s cold they seem to reduce the hours that the school is open.
- Page 185 – account of a pupil (as a pedestrian) involved in a car accident (Under Manager of Hopton Wood Quarry was the driver), thankfully without serious injury.
- Page 193 – In May due to cold wind head teacher does put the heating on as the temperature at 8.15 was only 46 degrees F (7.7 degrees C). It only gets up to 15 degrees (59 F) by the end of the day. |