Sources for Education in Eggington

The former Eggington School January 2013

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.

Eggington British School

• X270/27: British School fees paid by scholars: 1848-1854;
• X270/8: British School committee minute book: 1848-1864;
• X270/26: British School cash book: 1848-184;
• X270/7: Congregational Sunday School library borrowers’ register: c. 1850s;
• X270/9: British School timetables and annual lecture notices: 1850s;
• X270/6: Congregational Sunday School library list and rules: 1855;
• X270/10: British School correspondence: 1855-1857;
• X270/5: Congregational Sunday School attendance register: 1862-1880;
• X270/11: British Continuation School class register: 1899-1900.

Eggington Board/Council/County Primary/Lower School

• SB39/11: School Board minute book: 1875-1885;
• CCE/SB39/1: conveyance: 1879;
• CCE/SB39/4: mortgage: 1879;
• SDEggington2/1: admission register: 1880-1913;
• SDEggington3/1: duplicate examination schedules: 1880-1900;
• CCE/SB39/5: mortgage: 1881;
• SDEggington3/2: inspectors’ reports: 1881-1892;
• Z849/7/1: list of school teachers and monitresses: 1881-1983;
• BML10/23/3: sale catalogue for the cottage at the rear of the school: 1882;
• CCE/SB39/3: conveyance of the cottage at the rear of the school: 1882;
• SDEggington3/4: managers’ returns: 1882-1883;
• SDEggington3/3: examination schedules: 1892-1897;
• SB39/1: School Board financial statements: 1892-1903;
• SB39/12: School Board minute book: 1894-1903;
• SB39/5: report of the School Board clerk to Bedfordshire County Council: 1903;
• SDEggington1/1: log book: 1903-1973;
• SDEggington2/2: admissions register: 1903-1983;
• SDEggington3/5: financial returns and claims: 1904-1917;
• E/TE5/1: details of teachers: 1904-1908;
• E/TE5/2: details of teachers: 1908-1912;
• E/IN1/1: inspector’s reports: 1912-1935;
• E/PM54/2/2: school inquiry: 1923;
• E/PM4/2/2: reorganisation into a junior school: 1923-1924;
• SMM12: school managers’ minutes: 1925-1974;
• CA8/1012: school maintenance file: 1947-1984;
• E/IN1/2: inspector’s reports: 1952-1960;
• SDEggington1/2: log book: 1974-1983;
• SMM32/1: School managers’ minutes: 1976-1983;
• X394/3/2: National Union of Teachers correspondence regarding possible school closure: 1978;
• E/SC1/Gen5-6: details of school and proposals to transfer the pupils on closure: 1981;
• E/SC1/Egg1-4: closure of the school: 1982;
• CCE/SB39/6: lease to Eggington Village Hall Management Committee: 1985;
• CCE/SB39/7: lease to Eggington Village Hall Management Committee: 1991.