Silsoe VC Lower School sign April 2011

The following list gives all the sources relating to education in Silsoe held by Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service. Due to the terms of the Data Protection Act records containing personal details of living individuals will be closed in total, or in part, depending on the nature of the information.

• CRT120/40: notes on Silsoe National School;
• L26/1393: bequest to begin a school: c. 1740;
• L30/11/215/104: history of the school from 1740: 1800;
• CRT100/27/3(i) page 51: list of children at the school: 1757-1764
• CRT100/27/3(i) page 28: further accommodation needed for Mr. Harrison's school: 1763;
• CRT100/27/3(i) page 44: payment of Widow Harrison as teacher: 1764;
• CRT100/27/3(i) page 47: payment overdue to Sarah Harrison as teacher: 1764;
• CRT100/27/3(i) page 48: payment to Sarah Harrison: 1764;
• CRT100/27/3(i) page 50: further comments on teacher's payment: 1764;
• CRT100/27/3(i) page 77: check on whether children were at school: 1765;
• CRT100/27/3(i) page 105: school closed for fear of smallpox: 1767;
• P54/12/1: schoolmaster mentioned in overseers' accounts: 1772;
• CRT100/27/4 page 230:  school "in high credit": 1775;
• L30/11/133/1: letter from schoolmistress Sarah Harrison to Lady Lucas: proposing singing lessons: 1789;
• L30/11/133/4: letter from schoolmistress Sarah Harrison to Mrs. Box regarding pupils: 1794;
• L30/11/133/5: letter from schoolmistress Sarah Harrison to Lady Lucas about singing: 1797;
• L30/11/133/6: letter from schoolmistress Sarah Harrison to Lady Lucas regarding the school terms: 1797;
• L30/11/215/19: charity school audit: 1797;
• L30/11/215/71: school temporarily discontinued due to the illness of Sarah Harrison's daughter: 1799;
• L30/11/133/10: letter from schoolmistress Sarah Harrison to Lady Lucas regarding her absence from school: 1804;
• L26/460: plan of the school building: 1813;
• L30/11/133/13: letter from schoolmistress Sarah Harrison to Lady Lucas regarding a pupil: 1820;
• L26/1455: salaries, expenses and repairs at the infants' school: 1821-1826;
• L29/119: infants' school allowance: 1829;
• L26/1454: salaries, expenses and repairs at the infants' school: 1827-1837;
• L30/11/40/51: schoolboys' dinner: 1828;
• SDSilsoe1: girls' school logbook: 1863-1896;
• SDSilsoe4: boys' school logbook with some evening school accounts and reports: 1869-1893;
• SDSilsoe2: infants' school logbook: 1873-1892;
• Z588/1: photograph of girls and teachers at the school: c. 1880;
•  SDSilsoe3: infants' school logbook: 1892-1922;
• SDSilsoe5: boys' school logbook 1893-1896;
• SDSilsoe5: logbook for the combined boys' and girls' schools as well as the infants' school and evening school: 1896-1940;
• E/SA3/1/2: managers' and inspector's reports: 1903;
• E/TE5/3: details of teachers: 1904;
• E/IN1/1: inspector's reports: 1909-1933;
• E/TE5/4: details of teachers: 1912;
• CA8/262: school maintenance file: 1947-1975;
• PY/E9/1: acquisition of additional land: 1969-1980;
• CA2/324: building contract for a double classroom unit: 1970-1973;
• E/SA1/4/5: complaints: 1972;
• CA8/749: school maintenance file: 1976-1985;
• PY/PH68/1: exterior photograph: 1979;
• CA8/953: school maintenance file: 1979-1984;
• E/TE3/4: return of teaching staff: 1981;
• BP64/37/9: photograph of the old school, partially demolished: 1981;
• BP64/37/7-8: photograph of pupils and staff on their first day at the new school: 1981;
• E/TE3/7: return of teaching staff: 1986;
• E/MS3/2/5: kitchen and other details: c. 1987;
• E/Pu4/4/62: school prospectus: 1995;
• Z923/10/19: poster for Christmas bazaar: 1996.