Cinderford Schools... (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Monday, November 03, 2008, 08:01 (5936 days ago) @ Capener

Schools In 1902

SCHOOLS under the Forest of Dean United District School Board:-

Board, Bilson Woodside (junior boys, girls & infants) built with master's residence, in 1877, & since enlarged for 775 children; average attendance, 217 boys, 216 dirls & 215 infants; John Hale, master; Miss Bailey, mistress; Mrs. Hale, infant's mistress.

Board, Steam Mills (boys, girls & infant), built in 1882, for 416 children; average attendance 103 boys, 98 girls & 96 infant's; Harry Darlington, master; Miss Elizabeth Clara Williams, mistress; Miss Mary Garner, infant's mistress.

Board, St. White's (junior, mixed & infant's), built in 1887, for 440 children; average attendance, 110 boys, 100 girls & 178 infant's; George Daniel Woodman, master; Mrs. Annie Marfell, infant's mistress.

Board, Soudley (Mixed and infant's), built with master's residence, in 1885. & enlarged in 1893, for 231 children; average attendance, 125 boys & girls & 32 infant's; Frederick Hull, master.

Board, Double View (senior boys & girls), built in 1895, for 600 children; average attendance, 205 boys & 210 girls; John Alfred Emery, master & 9 assistant masters & mistresses.

also

NEW REGARD OF THE FOREST OF DEAN

Bilson School (with illustrations and map) Vol12. Page 6

At Bilson industrial development included gasworks erected in 1860, (fn. 88)
and a large school was built north of the road to the town centre (later Station Street) in 1877

From: 'Forest of Dean: Settlement', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 300-325.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23266. Date accessed: 03 November 2008.

images

Bilson Woodside Infants (1904 class photo in the book "Forest to Severn")

Double View School -Seniors (1904 school hall exercise photo in the book "Forest of Dean Revisited")

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