I would like to find the school in Coleford that my great uncle taught at around 1911. Reginald Theodore Dunn would have been about 21 years of age in 1911. In that census he was lodging with Leslie and Emma Martin (he a postman) at Bute House, Lords Hill in Coalway Road. Any ideas as to the school where he was a teacher? Added bonus would be that he could have taught one of my Pullen relations who lived in the same area. Although he later taught at St Marks in Cheltenham and had a post at a school in India, he was killed in 1916 in the battle of the Somme near Thiepval.

DJJ

To mark the Golden Jubilee of P. M. Procter's school and chapel at Berry Hill (fn. 4) W. H. Taylor, minister of Christ Church, (fn. 5) built a National school for the Lane End district, east of Coleford. The district had a day school in a Baptist chapel at Mitcheldean Lane End in 1851 (fn. 6) and one or two small dame schools in 1862. Known as the Forest Church Jubilee school, the National school with its adjacent schoolhouse was at Broadwell Lane End and was paid for by subscriptions and grants. It opened in 1864 with 70 pupils, including infants, and was enlarged by Taylor several times. (fn. 7) In 1889 it had 270 places and an average attendance of 230 in junior mixed and infants' departments or schools, (fn. 8) which in 1890, when the Lane End district became part of Coleford for ecclesiastical purposes, were renamed Coleford Lane End National schools. (fn. 9) The building was enlarged further in 1893 and 1904 (fn. 10) but was overcrowded in 1910, when the schools' average attendance was 340. (fn. 11) In 1914 the older children were transferred to a new school at Five Acres. (fn. 12) Coleford Lane End schools, which the local education authority took over in 1926, (fn. 13) had a total average attendance of 261 in 1938. (fn. 14) Renamed Broadwell Lane End schools in 1954, (fn. 15) they later moved to new buildings at Coalway Lane End, just within Coleford, the infants being transferred in 1966 (fn. 16) and the juniors in 1977, (fn. 17) to become Coalway Infants' and Coalway Junior schools. In 1992 they had 148 and 218 children on their respective rolls. (fn. 18)

In 1813 P. M. Procter opened a day school on the National plan at Berry hill. For a year or so it used his school-chapel, (fn. 19) for the building of which the Treasury and the National Society made grants, and then it moved to a new room to the north, the original building being enlarged to form the chapel consecrated under the name of Christ Church in 1816. The new school had boys' and girls' departments. It received an annual grant from the Crown and depended principally on voluntary contributions. (fn. 20) The school, under the control of successive ministers of Christ Church, (fn. 21) taught 115 children in 1847. (fn. 22) It admitted infants by 1852 when, known as Christ Church C. of E. Mixed school, it received little financial support locally. Over half of its income came from a grant of the Commissioners of Woods, acting for the Crown, and the rest from pence, a few subscriptions, and the minister's share of a trust fund intended for repairing his church. (fn. 23) W. H. Taylor, perpetual curate 1852-83, (fn. 24) made several additions to the school and in 1856 built a schoolhouse some way to the south-west. (fn. 25) There was a separate infants' school at Berry Hill in 1870. (fn. 26) In 1889 the National school had 260 places and an average attendance of 195 in junior mixed and infants' departments. (fn. 27) To meet the requirements of the Board of Education the Revd. Christopher Barnes in 1897 added more rooms and converted some outbuildings of his adjacent parsonage for school use. (fn. 28) The school was overcrowded in 1910 when the average attendance was 303, (fn. 29) and in 1914 the older children were transferred to a new school at Five Acres. (fn. 30) Christ Church school, which became so neglected that the local education authority condemned its buildings, was handed over to the authority in 1936 (fn. 31) and had an average attendance of 195 in 1938. (fn. 32) In 1954 it moved to a new building in Nine Wells Road and was renamed Berry Hill County Primary school. (fn. 33) In 1992 it had 261 children on its roll (fn. 34) and the original schoolrooms north of Christ Church were used for church purposes and a nursery school.

Berry Hill Secondary school was originally Five Acres Council school, opened in 1914 to take older children from local elementary schools. It had new buildings at Five Acres with places for 260 pupils (fn. 63) and average attendances of 215 in 1922 and 146 in 1938. (fn. 64) It became a secondary modern school under the 1944 Act (fn. 65) and, having been renamed in 1946, (fn. 66) its catchment area was widened in 1966 on the closure of Coleford secondary modern school. (fn. 67) The group of school buildings was enlarged by the construction, on the east side of the site, of the Royal Forest of Dean Grammar school, opened in 1968 to replace grammar schools at Cinderford and Coleford. (fn. 68) In 1980 the secondary modern school had 933 pupils on its roll and the grammar school, which admitted children from the secondary modern school and from Double View school to its sixth form, had 770. (fn. 69) The secondary modem and grammar schools at Five Acres were amalgamated in 1985 to form a comprehensive school for children up to 16 years (fn. 70) and older children subsequently attended the Royal Forest of Dean College. (fn. 71) The comprehensive school, named Lakers school, had 794 pupils on its roll in 1992. (fn. 72)
From: 'Forest of Dean: Education', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 405-413. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23274 Date accessed: 12 August 2010.

Higher up at Cinder Hill, on the road to High Nash, Forest (formerly Tump) House was acquired by the metallurgist David Mushet in 1810 and became a hotel in the mid 20th century. (fn. 4) East of the town there were a few cottages on the Coalway road at Lord's Hill by 1777 (fn. 5) and a school and a parsonage house were built there in the late 1830s. (fn. 6) Further along the road a large building was erected in 1875 for Bell's Grammar school. (fn. 7)

In the early 1970s the former Bell's Grammar school at Lord's Hill was converted as a country club and, in 1973, the adjoining farmland at Edenwall was laid out as a golf course. (fn. 65) In 1994 another golf club had a new course in the north-east of Coleford, extending from the Mitcheldean road to Five Acres.

From: 'Coleford', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 117-138. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23255 Date accessed: 12 August 2010.

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

{you have this already - just in case it alerts someone else}

Name: Reginald Theodore Dunn
Year of Registration: 1890
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Chepstow
County: Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire
Volume: 11a
Page: 8

Year: 1890
Month: May
Day: 15
Parents_Surname: DUNN
Child_Forenames: Reginald Theodore
Fathers_Forenames: Edwin Alfred
Mothers_Forenames: Eliz[abe]th
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Wyecliffe House Welsh S[tree]t [Wycliffe]
Occupation: Draper
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: S[on] o[f]
Notes:
Register_Reference: 1882-1895
Page_Number:
Parish_Chapel: Chepstow Monmouth

1891
Ann Dunn abt 1825 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England Mother Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Edwin A Dunn abt 1849 Nottinghamshire, England Head Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Elizabeth Dunn abt 1851 Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England Wife Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Marion Dunn abt 1882 Cheltnham, Gloucestershire, England Daughter Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Edith M Dunn abt 1884 Cheltnham, Gloucestershire, England Daughter Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Ada A Dunn abt 1886 Cheltnham, Gloucestershire, England Daughter Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Arthur C Dunn abt 1887 Cheltnham, Gloucestershire, England Son Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Reginald T Dunn abt 1890 Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales Son Chepstow, Monmouthshire

1901
Alfred E Dunn abt 1849 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England Head Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Elizabeth Dunn abt 1851 Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England Wife Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Edith M Dunn abt 1884 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England Daughter Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Arthur C Dunn abt 1887 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England Son Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Reginald T Dunn abt 1890 Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales Son Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Eleanor A Dunn abt 1893 Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales Daughter Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

1911
DUNN REGINALD M 1890 21 Monmouth Monmouthshire
MARTIN LESLIE M 1863 48 Monmouth Monmouthshire
MARTIN EMMA F 1858 53 Monmouth Monmouthshire
MARTIN ADA ISABEL F 1890 21 Monmouth Monmouthshire
MARTIN LUCY M F 1896 15 Monmouth Monmouthshire
MARTIN MILLICENT F 1897 14 Monmouth Monmouthshire
MARTIN WINIFRED C F 1893 18 Monmouth Monmouthshire

Name: Reginald Theodore Dunn
Birth Place: Chepstow, Mon.
Residence: Pittville, Gloucester [Cheltenham ?]
Death Date: 18 Aug 1916
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Cheltenham, Gloucester
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Army Cyclist Corps
Battalion: South Midland Divisional Cyclist Company
Number: 1485
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 1485, Glos. Regt.

Name: DUNN, REGINALD THEODORE
Initials: R T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Army Cyclist Corps
Unit Text: South Midland Div.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 18/08/1916
Service No: 1485
Additional information: Brother of Miss Edith M. Dunn, of "Bangalore " Kensington Avenue, Cheltenham, Glos. [ very close to todays Cheltenham Spa rail station]
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 12 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

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http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=110764

I would like to find the final resting place of my great-uncle, Reginald Theodore Dunn. Regimental No; 1485, he enlisted in the 5th Gloucestershire Regt, TA on 03/06/1911 having served in the 4th Oxford and Bucks LI. As a Lance Sergeant he disembarked at le Havre with 1/1 South Midland Div. Cyclist Cy. Promoted Sgt on 06/12/1915, he joined Base Depot 28/05/1916 and was attached to VIII Corps Cyclist Battalion on 16/05/1916.
He was then attached to 48th Division 143 Brigade 1/6th Royal Warwickshire Regt. on 12/07/1916. He was killed in action 18/08/1916.
Where is the question? He has no known grave but I would like to know roughly whereabouts he fell. The date suggests he survived the Battle of Pozieres and he seems to have fallen in some minor skirmish or a counter-attack. I have details of certain commemorative inscriptions in Cheltenham and Thiepval.. I have looked up War Diaries WO95/2756 and WO95/4248. The first does not cover 1/6th RWR and the second covers 1918. Where now?

You need to find where Hindenburg Trench and Nab Alley were on the 18th August 1916. On that day:

"II Corps.48 Division. The 1/5 and 1/6 Royal Warwicks attacked at 5 p.m. with the bombers of 1/7th Royal Warwicks (also 143 Brigade) on the left,and,after some resistence,made good headway,taking Hindenburg Trench and Nab Valley. On the right,aroud the slopes of Skyline trench Spur,1/4th Berks (145 Brigade) gave effective support and,at dawn on the 19th,took more ground. The line then consisted of the area due west from Skyline Trench to the original German Front line to the east of the Nab"

This is from "The Somme - a Day-by-Day Account" by Chris McCarthy.[/[/color]i]

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Bells Grammar School was in Lords Hill Coleford at this time.
I was once told that some of the old school records for Bells School are still kept at the hotel which now occupies the old school buildings, if your relative was a teacher there they may be able to help.

I believe there was also a National School in Lords Hill Coleford, and also at that time there were the St. John's C of E infant and junior schools in Boxbush Road.

EDUCATION.

A National school recorded in Coleford in 1830 (fn. 75) was presumably the infant school run by Anglicans in the former Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Newland Street at that time. (fn. 76) A National school possibly started in 1835 as a Sunday school (fn. 77) occupied a new building at Lord's Hill from 1838. (fn. 78) Supported by subscriptions and pence, it received an annual grant from the Crown from 1841 (fn. 79) and taught 65 boys and 78 girls separately in 1846. (fn. 80) The average attendance had dropped to 15 by 1867, but following the appointment of a trained master that year it began to grow (fn. 81) and from 1869 the school had junior mixed and infant departments under separate management. (fn. 82) The school was enlarged in 1877 when, as St. John's C. of E. school, it had an average attendance of 136. In 1882, following an influx of children previously taught at a British school, (fn. 83) the junior department was reorganized with the boys in a new building next to St. John's church in Boxbush Road. (fn. 84) The infant school moved to a new building next to the church in 1896 (fn. 85) and the three departments of St. John's school had a combined average attendance of 306 in 1904. (fn. 86) The boys' school was enlarged in 1910. (fn. 87) In 1930, when the older boys and girls were transferred to a new secondary school in Bowens Hill Road, (fn. 88) the school at Lord's Hill was closed and the younger children were taught together in the buildings by the church. (fn. 89) The average attendance at St. John's school was 151 in 1932 and 196 in 1938. (fn. 90) Between 1966 and 1974 the school moved in stages to the site of the school in Bowens Hill Road, which had been vacated, (fn. 91) and in 1994 it had 234 children on its roll. (fn. 92) The buildings in Boxbush Road were converted for use as a day hospital and a clinic. (fn. 93) The former school building at Lord's Hill was used as a parish room and church hall in 1959 (fn. 94) and was converted for use as a holiday and youth centre by the diocese in 1979. (fn. 95)

The Coleford Baptists had a Sunday school with 260 pupils in 1824. (fn. 96) Baptists also started another Sunday school in Newland parish in 1828 (fn. 97) and ran a free school, presumably at their Newland Street chapel, in 1830. (fn. 98) In 1851 the former Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Newland Street, then occupied by Wesleyan Reformers, was temporarily a British school. (fn. 99) In 1863 a new British school opened in the former Baptist chapel in Newland Street. Teaching boys and girls, it was financed by subscriptions and pence. (fn. 1) It also received a grant from the Crown and it had 185 children on its roll when it closed in 1880. (fn. 2)
Coleford had several small day and boarding schools in the mid 19th century, (fn. 3) including in 1858 a boarding school run by a former minister of the town's Independent chapel. (fn. 4) In 1862 a Roman Catholic convert took lodgings in the town and started a day school in Gloucester Road. The school soon had 40 pupils, most of them protestants. Some children moved to the British school opened the following year. (fn. 5) In 1867 the Catholic school taught 30 children and the Independents had a school with 170 pupils. (fn. 6) Neither school is recorded later. In the late 19th century there were several private girls' schools in Coleford. (fn. 7)

A schoolroom built at Scowles in 1849 by C. W. Grove, curate of Newland, was paid for by voluntary contributions (fn. 8) and from 1850 was also used for church services. (fn. 9) In 1858 J. F. Brickdale (later Fortescue-Brickdale) of Newland built a new school there on the suggestion of his daughter Mary and at his death in 1867 he left her the building and an annuity of £50 for its maintenance. (fn. 10) In 1877 it was a mixed school teaching juniors and infants and it had an average attendance of 72. (fn. 11) In 1879 Mary Brickdale, who ran it as a church school largely at her own expense, increased the accommodation and built a house for its teachers, who were to be a married couple. On the closure of Coleford British school in 1880 attendance rose and from 1883 the junior and infant departments were run separately. Not long before her death in 1895 Mary Brickdale appointed managers for the school, and in 1897 the Revd. H. A. G. Graham gave £1,000 stock as an endowment and the two departments were merged to form the Brickdale Memorial school. It was managed with other church schools in Coleford from 1903. (fn. 12) The average attendance was 69 in 1904 (fn. 13) and 48 in 1938. (fn. 14) The school closed in 1969 (fn. 15) and the buildings, which had remained in the ownership of the FortescueBrickdale family until 1922, (fn. 16) were converted for domestic use.
Coleford Senior Council school was opened by the county council in 1930 to take children aged nine years and over from St. John's school. Occupying a new building in Bowens Hill Road, it also took children from other local elementary schools (fn. 17) and had an average attendance of 161 in 1932 and 87 in 1938. (fn. 18) It became a secondary modern school under the 1944 Education Act and closed in 1966. The children were transferred to Berry Hill Secondary school at Five Acres. (fn. 19)
In 1876 Bell's Grammar school, part of an early 17th-century charitable foundation, moved from Newland to a new building at Lord's Hill in Coleford. (fn. 20) At Lord's Hill the number of pupils rose to over 30 before dropping sharply to 5 in the late 1890s.

An art school was established in 1872 and had premises in Newland Street. It apparently closed soon after 1876. (fn. 29) In the 1890s evening classes on mining, science, and art started in Coleford with support from the county council. The science and art classes, organized from the Lydney Institute, continued until 1905 or later. (fn. 30)

From: 'Coleford', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 117-138. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23255 Date accessed: 13 August 2010.

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Thanks for that Pam I will follow up yr suggestion.

Rgds
DJJ

Thanks for that slowhands. I will digest that at some leisure and book a slot at Glos Archives to start digging. As you can see from my ventures into the National Archives with the War Diary, Great War Forum and Service Records, the 'official' records of RT Dunn are incorrect in part; but that is for another forum.

Thanks again, DJJ