Sources for Education in Aspley Heath

Aspley Heath National/Board/Council/County Primary/Lower School

• Pamphlet 130: Eighty Years of School Life - being Extracts from the Log Books of Woburn Sands National School 1863-1868 and Aspley Heath School 1868-1945;
BHRS Volume 67: The Bedfordshire Schoolchild in the 19th Century;
• SDAspleyHeath1/4: mixed school logbook: 1863-1893;
• CRT130Asp2: account for building the school: 1867-1868;
• R4/793/1-2: printed rules regarding payment, absence, instruction etc.: 1868;
• E/SA3/1/1: tabulated returns of pupils under Factory & Workshop Act 1878
• SDAspleyHeath2/4: admission register for mixed school: 1879-1899;
• SDAspleyHeath2/1: admission register: 1887-1891;
• Z251/14-16: school certificates for 204th standard: 1888-1890;
• SB2/9: School Board contribution order regarding children attending from Aspley Guise and Wavendon: 1887-1903;
• SDAspleyHeath1/1: infants' school logbook: 1890-1904;
• SDAspleyHeath1/5: mixed school logbook: 1893-1909;
• SDAspleyHeath2/5: admission register to mixed school: 1899-1910;
• Z251/305: postcard album: early C20;
• Z251/306-3-5: photographs of school buildings: early C20;
• Z251/171: testimonial for Kate Newman: 1903;
• SDAspleyHeath2/2: infants' school admission register (includes some London children 1917-1918 - Jewish?)
• SDAspleyHeath1/2: infants' school logbook: 1904-1924;
• E/TE5/1: details of teachers: 1904-1908;
• SDAspleyHeath3/1: punishment book: 1907-1925;
• E/TE5/2: details of teachers: 1908-1912;
• SDAspleyHeath1/6: mixed school logbook: 1909-1924;
• SDAspleyHeath2/6: admission register to mixed school: 1910-1928;
• E/IN1/1: Inspectors' reports: 1910-1933;
• CTM17/210: mortgage of school premises: 1914;
• Z251/304/56-57, 60-61: photographs of children with teachers: 1916;
• Z251/426-431: photographs of Miss C.E.M.Newman and pupils and colleagues: 1917;
• SDAspleyHeath2/3: infants' school admission register: 1918-1926
• SDAspleyHeath2/9: summary attendance register: 1920-1926;
• Z251/304/55: photograph of Miss C.E.M.Newman and class: 1920;
• SDAspleyHeath5/1: Miscellaneous papers (correspondence, application for recognition, regulations, etc): 1920-1931;
• Z251/304/42-43: photographs of staff: 1920s;
• Z251/304/54: photograph of headmaster and pupils: 1920s;
• Z251/190: testimonial to Miss C.E.Newman: 1922;
• SDAspleyHeath1/7: school logbook: 1924-1945;
• SDAspleyHeath1/3: school logbook for infants' school: 1924-1926;
• Z251/191: agreement to employ Miss C.E.M.Newman as assistant teacher: 1924;
• CTM17/79: mortgage of school premises: 1927;
• SDAspleyHeath2/7: admission register: 1928-1949;
• SDAspleyHeath4/1: needlework sales book: 1933-1938;
• Z251/433: photograph of children's parade for coronation: 1937;
• Z251/356: letter of thanks on retirement of Miss K.Newman: 1940;
• SDAspleyHeath1/8: school logbook: 1945-1971;
• SDAspleyHeath2/8: admission register: 1949-1972;
• SDAspleyHeath6/1:'Duties of Caretakers and Scavengers' Printed: 1951-1953;
• SDAspleyHeath2/4: housecraft sales book: 1955-1958;
• CA8/60: building maintenance file: 1965-1971;
• SDAspleyHeath6/2: photograph of children playing musical instruments: c.1970;
• CA2/638: building file on toilet accommodation: 1971;
• CA8/851: building maintenance file: 1972-1984;
• E/TE2/2/L2: details of lower school: 1978;
• CA15/41: report on developments of old lower school site: 1984

Swallowfield Lower School, Aspley Guise

• PY/PH11/1-2: photographs of school under construction: 1980;
• E/TE2/2/L78: details of school: 1985;
• E/TE3/6: return of teaching staff: 1986;
• E/MS3/2/2: kitchen and other details: c.1987;
• E/Pu4/4/128: prospectus: 1995

The Knoll

• X664/1-13: deeds to property: 1869-1897;
• SY130 and 176/18: letters from headmaster E.F.Miller to John Starey about the progress of his son Eric: 1894-1898;
• ST130, 176 and 242: correspondence about Eric and Stehpen Starey: 1894-1907;
• SY175: letters to John and Grace Starey from their son Eric: 1894-1897;
• X395/55: abstract of title to property: 1903;
• ST242: school reports of Stephen Starey: 1904-1905;
• SY217: letter to Stephen Starey from E.F.Miller: 1907;
• Z480/1-115: run of school magazines: 1927-1974;
• Z826/4/6: list of distinctions and old boys: 1930s;
• P129/0/8: chapel service register: 1957-1974

The Pines

• ST1032: sale catalogue: 1889