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Sources for Education in Billington

The former school January 2009
The former school January 2009

  • AD3865/6: Plans of the school and teacher's house: 1862;
  • CRT130Bil2: "Education in Billington" - extracts from the first school log book: 1863-1878;
  • SDBillington4: Account book: 1863-1939;
  • SDBillington6/1: Log book:1863-1881;
  • SDBillington6/3: Log book: 1899-1948;
  • Z55/1/9-20: Photographs of the school: 20th century;
  • E/SA3/1/2: Managers' and inspectors' reports: 1903;
  • SDBillington5: School managers' minute book: 1903-1959;
  • E/TE5/3: Details of teachers: 1904-1908;
  • E/TE5/4: Details of teachers: 1908-1912;
  • E/IN1/1: Inspectors' reports: 1911-1937;
  • PCBillington19/47: photograph of boys in the playground: 1914-1918;
  • PCBillington19/5: group photograph of forty children: c.1921;
  • E/SA5/1/1: Public enquiry at which it was decided to send children to Leighton Buzzard at age eleven: 1924-1935;
  • PCBillington19/13: photograph taken from the road outside the old school house: 1925-1930;
  • PCBillington19/76: class photograph: 1927;
  • P111/0/4: Note in church service register of the burial of Miss F. M. Levesley, headmistress of the school for twenty years: 1949;
  • SDBillington6/4: Logbook: 1949-1959;
  • PCBillington19/12: class photograph: c.1950;
  • Z55/1/91/7: Negative of the school: 1954;
  • SDBillington2: Attendance register: 1959