Sources for Education in Aspley Guise

National/Board/Council/County Primary/Lower School

• BHRS Volume 67: The Bedfordshire Schoolchild in the 19th Century;
• AD3865/4: plan of National School: 1847;
• AB/RD/A0: details of intended school: 1848;
• SDAspleyGuise1/1: logbook: 1868-1897;
• P122/29/1: Vestry correspondence on school matters: 1868, 1885, 1888;
• Bedfordshire Mercury articles on religious divide in the village regardin geducation: 24 Sep and 1 Oct 1872;
• X454/29: inaugural meeting of Aspley Guise & Woburn Sands Gas Light & Coke Company held at school: 1877;
• P122/29/2: agreement for headmaster to act as choirmaster and superintendent of the Sunday School: 1878;
• SDAspleyGuise3: circulars, School Inspector's reports etc.: 1879-1924;
• P122/8/1: Vestry minute regarding establishment of School Board: 1879;
• E/SA3/1/1: tabulated return of pupils under Factory & Workshop Act 1878: 1879;
• P122/25/1-24: Moore's Charity accounts for schooling: 1881-1965;
• SDCranfield3/1: press cutting about inspection of Aspley Guise Board School by School Inspector: 1891;
• P122/8/1: Vestry minute regarding cost of maintaining children at the school: 1886;
• P122/2/18: licence to use schoolroom for services while church closed for repairs: 1890;
• P122/8/5: Vestry minute regarding overcrowded state of the school: 1894;
• SB1/1: mortgage of premises by School Board: 1896;
• SDAspleyGuise1/2: logbook: 1897-1911;
• Z251/365: photographs of school groups: c.1900-1930s;
• SB1/3: Report of School Board Clerk to new LEA: 1903;
• E/TE5/1: list of teachers: 1904-1908;
• SDAspleyGuise10/1: admission register: 1906-1960;
• E/TE5/2: list of teachers: 1908-1912;
• Z818/35: photograph of school: c.1910;
• SDAspleyGuise/1/3: school logbook: 1911-1931;
• E/IN1/1: Inspector's reports on the school: 1911-1933;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/1: group portrait of Class 1: c.1915;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/2: group portrait of Class 3: c.1915;
• SDAspleyGuise/6/1: needlework sales book: 1925-1934;
• SDAspleyGuise/1/4: school logbook: 1931-1950;
• SDAspleyGuise8/1: printed particulars of scholarships: 1932;
• CS/SPL649: file on the building of the school, arrangements etc.: 1936-1978;
• SDAspleyGuise/5/1: summary register: 1937-1942;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/4: newspaper cutting about school opening in Spinney Lane: 1940;
• Z55/1/91/3-4: negatives of school: c.1940;
• SDAspleyGuise/5/2: summary register: 1942-1947;
• SDAspleyGuise/7/1: weekly attendance summary: 1942-1943;
• SDAspleyGuise/5/3: summary register: 1947-1952;
• PCAspleyGuise26/2: Instrument of Management: 1948-1977;
• RDAH3(1): application to use old school premises to manufacture machinery: 1949-1953;
• SDAspleyGuise/1/5: school logbook: 1950-1970;
• SDAspleyGuise/2/1-3: syllabus and record books: 1952-1953;
• SDAspleyGuise/5/4: summary register: 1952-1955;
• SDAspleyGuise/10/2: admission register: 1960-1992;
• CA2/91: building contract for kitchens and class room: 1964-1965;
• X351/1 p.81: photograph of new cloak rooms: 1965;
• SDAspleyGuise/5/5: summary register: 1965-1970;
• CA8/860: building maintenance file: 1966-1983;
• SDAspleyGuise/4/1-11: attendance registers: 1969-1973;
• SDAspleyGuise/7/1-2: weekly attendance summaries: 1970-1972;
• SDAspleyGuise/1/6: school logbook: 1970-1977;
• SDAspleyGuise/1/7: school logbook: 1978-1982;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/5: newspaper cutting about Christmas Bazaar: 1980s;
• E/TE3/3: return of teaching staff: 1981;
• SDAspleyGuise/1/8: school logbook: 1983-1988;
• E/TE3/6: return of teaching staff: 1986;
• E/TE2/2/1: details of school: 1986;
• E/MS3/2/2: kitchen and other details: c.1987;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/6: newspaper cutting about decision to continue to cook meals at school: 1988;
• SDAspleyGuise/1/9: school logbook: 1988-1999;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/14: colour photograph of children in 18th century dress: 1990s;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/7: newspaper cutting regarding headteacher's appeal for old pupils to contact her: 1990;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/8-9: newspaper cuttings about 50th anniversary celebrations at new school building: 1990;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/10: newspaper cutting about school winning prize for habitat pool: 1991;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/11: newspaper cutting regarding construction of wildlife habitat at school: 1992;
• SDAspleyGuise/11/8: newspaper cutting about performance of Magic Flute at school: 1994;
• E/Pu4/4/224: prospectus: 1995;
• PCAspleyGuise34/1/8: planning application for old school in Woburn Lane: 1999;
• Z1205/010: oral history transcript by former female London Brick driver educated at school: 2001;
• SDAspleyGuise/8/2: Governors' Annual Report: 2001

Fulbrook County Secondary/Middle School

• SGM4/1-2: Governors' minutes: 1958-1973;
• X351/1 p.79: photograph of tribute to retiring teachers: c.1965;
• E/YM1/4/20: floodlighting of playground: 1965;
• CA8/234: building maintenance file: 1966-1980;
• SGM4/3-4: Governors' correspondence: 1967-1973;
• CA2/493: file on school extensions: 1974-1977;
• E/YM3/1/1: use of school grounds for Youth Service Adventure Challenge competitions: 1979-1980;
• E/TE3/1: return of teaching staff: 1980;
• E/SC3/Gen24: working papers on proposal to send ongoing children to upper school at Wootton and Kempston rather than Leighton-Linslade: 1980-1981;
• E/OL1/5/1: school participation in school exchange programme with Calvados [France]: 1984;
• E/TE3/6: return of teaching staff: 1986;
• E/MS3/2/2: kitchen and other details: c.1987;
• E/TE2/2/M2: details of school: 1989;
• E/Pu4/4/41: prospectus: 1995

Aspley Guise Classical Academy

• Press Cuttings volume 1 page 99;
• Bedfordshire Magazine Volume V pages 342-343;
• Bedfordshire Magazine Volume XXIV page 262;
• Journal of Bedfordshire Family History Society Volume 2 Number 1 page 17, Volume 2 Number 2 page 11, Volume 2 Number 3 page 11;
• CRT130Turvey6: John Higgins at the school;
• CRT130Asp2: notes on the school;
• CRT130Asp5: boys' names carved at school;
• CRT130Asp10: notes on the school;
• CRT130Asp13: items relating to the school;
• CRT130Asp18: letter by future Clerk of the Peace, Theed Pearse, written at the school: 1802;
• CRT130Asp21: doucments relating to the school in the possession of A.E.A.Wright;
• CRT130Asp26: notes on the school;
• CRT180/414: copies and transcripts of documents relating to William Wright;
• X364/83, 85: Doctor Fowler's notes on the history of the school;
• X395/60: history of the school by Arthur Parker;
• HW68: Thomas Gressam asking for recommendations to the school due to smallpox having cause vacanies: 1724;
• M1/1/32: schoolmaster: 1743;
• HW83: school bill: 1762/3
• HW59: bequest from Robert to Thomas Sawell: 1768;
• HW50: how holidays were given from the school to work in hay fields: before 1771;
• X141/1: notes on some old boys: 1775;
• X347/9: letter sent home by a boarder: 1776;
• X141/1: card game played by William Wright at writer's house: 1777;
• X1/31: "Mr.Vaughan's Academy" mentioned in the title of a map: before 1778;
• ABT2/3: burial of James Vaughan, schoolmaster: 1778;
• HW60: numbers "very good": 1782;
• OR2071/363: gift of a goose given to William Wright by the Orlebar family: 1786;
• OR2071/364: Robert Orlebar, at the school, recovered from measles: 1786;
• OR2071/390: manuscript list of boys: 1788;
• HW63: numbers: c.1790;
• HW87/457: "very flourishing state": 1792;
• ABF3/1 and HW77: application for a pew by William Wright: 18th century: 1794;
• HW87/500: "grand entertainment" given at school: 1798;
• ABF3/12: faculty of erection of gallery in church for the school: 1799;
• Fac56: picture of the school: c.1800;
• AD3276: circular: 1801;
• V401: will of William Wright: 1806;
• V402: deed describing premises: 1825;
• P118/8/1: William Gee applied to Woburn overseers for assistance to re-establish the school: 1833;
• Z210/137: mention of the school inThe Climate of Aspley Guise by James Williams: 1858;
• GA2150: sale catalogue: 1874

Quaker School

• R3/4662: William How, having just established the school, suggested the Duke of Bedford should contribute £2: 1843;
• R3/4710: comment that the school might be found useful as an example to other villages: 1843;
• R3/4711: suggestion that Duke of Bedford gives a subscription to the school: 1843