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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D271/UL
TitleAnthony Gell School, Wirksworth (formerly Wirksworth Grammar School)
Date20th-21st cent
DescriptionAccession of April 2022:
Writings by former headmaster Roy Pearce:
"Anthony Gell School 1965-2015: in celebration of fifty years of community comprehensive education in Wirksworth".
"The Great War at Wirksworth Grammar School"
"The Free Grammar School of Anthony Gell: 1576-1908"
"The Hansen Bay Headship: Wirksworth Grammar School, 1908-1929"

Inspection reports 1910, 1930, 1947, 1962, 1995; Governors' reports to parents 1990-2004.
Staff meeting minute book 1978-1980.
Sports results log 1959-1962.
Three school council minute books 1981-1987.
Two programmes for Founders' Day c1950s and 1980s; Speech day programmes 1912, 1934, 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1967; Programmes for presentation of certificates 1973, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989 and sporting awards 2015 and 2016; Programmes for school plays 1960-2007.
Booklets of creative writing by pupils 20th cent; Yearbooks 1983-2008.
Standalone school publications 1976-2000 including school quatercentenary souvenir book; Prospectuses, handbooks and information for parents booklets 1988-2015; School magazines ("The Wirksworthian") 1908-1920, 1922-1925, 1938, 1945, 1949, 1954-1965, 1968-1970; School newsletters 2002-2015.
Collected school history background research documents including photocopies and transcripts of originals 20th cent;
VHS video tapes of news broadcasts with folders of library exhibition materials relating to former pupil Dame Ellen Macarthur, yachtswoman.
Photographs, for appraisal, including one large photograph of school pupils and teachers including headmaster Hansen Bay, c1920.
22 individual pupil report books 1955-1957; A Level art study by pupil Carol Lake relating to the school buildings c1975.
LevelSubFonds
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorAnthony Gell School, Wirksworth
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