Allastone Lydney schools (General)

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EDUCATION.
Dame schools and other small private schools were teaching 142 children in the parish in 1833. Lydney had a church Sunday school by 1818 (fn. 45) and one was being held in part of Aylburton chapel in 1847. A National school, probably supported by Charles Bathurst, (fn. 46) was opened before 1839 in a building at the site of the old furnace at the south-west end of Lydney town. (fn. 47) Bathurst was wholly supporting the school in 1856 when c. 200 children were said to attend. (fn. 48) About 1865, when it was for girls and infants, it had an average attendance of 126 and an income from voluntary contributions and school pence, the Revd. W. H. Bathurst making up a deficiency. (fn. 49)

In 1866 the Revd. W. H. Bathurst gave a site on the north-east side of Church Road and a new church school was built, funded by subscription and a government grant. (fn. 50) In 1885 it had accommodation for 300 and an average attendance of 228, organized in boys', girls', and infants' departments. (fn. 51) The school was enlarged in 1892 and 1899, bringing the accommodation up to 530. (fn. 52) In 1910, called Lydney C. of E. school, it had an average attendance of 263. (fn. 53) From 1919 the older children attended the new senior council school in the town, (fn. 54) and in 1922 Lydney C. of E. school, organized as junior mixed and infants, had an average attendance of 112, falling to 41 by 1938. (fn. 55) It accepted controlled status in 1950. (fn. 56) In 1973 it moved into the former secondary school buildings in Bream Road, (fn. 57) and it had 127 children on its roll in 1990. (fn. 58)
Primrose Hill C. of E. school opened in 1876 in a new building (fn. 59) on the west side of the road at Primrose Hill. In 1885 it had accommodation for 100 children and an average attendance of 80, in mixed and infants' departments. (fn. 60) It was enlarged in 1886, increasing the accommodation to 160. (fn. 61) Average attendance was 129 in 1910, falling to 50 by 1932, when the school was organized as junior mixed and infants. (fn. 62) It accepted controlled status in 1950. (fn. 63) It moved to a new building on the housing estate east of Primrose Hill, opened in 1976, (fn. 64) and had 174 children of primary school age on the roll in 1990. (fn. 65)
Lydney Council school opened in 1906 (fn. 66) in a new building near the entrance of Nass Lane and in 1909 a second building was opened on an adjoining site for its infants' department. (fn. 67) In 1910 the school had accommodation for 328 and an average attendance of 257. After the opening of a senior school at Lydney in 1919 it had junior mixed and infants' departments and the name was changed to Lydney Junior Council school. In 1938 it had an average attendance of 271. (fn. 68)

In 1915 plans for a senior school at Lydney resulted in a new building being put up in Bream Road, but it was used as a hospital for the remainder of the First World War. (fn. 78) In 1919 the building was opened as Lydney Senior Council school and took the older children from the local elementary schools. (fn. 79) In 1922 it had mixed accommodation for 240 and an average attendance of 146. In 1938 the average attendance was 126. (fn. 80) Under the Act of 1944 the school became the Lydney Secondary Modern school (fn. 81) and in 1961 it was divided into separate boys' and girls' secondary schools, the latter in new buildings in Nass Lane. (fn. 82) The schools were closed in 1973 when the boys' school had an attendance of c. 370 and the girls' school c. 350. (fn. 83)

In 1902 a committee was formed to promote secondary education in the Lydney area, and in 1903 it opened a secondary school for boys and girls, supported by fees, in the Lydney Institute building. By 1905 the school had over 100 pupils. The Board of Education granted recognition only on condition that better accommodation was provided, and extensions to the Institute building were completed in 1907, half the cost being provided by the county council and half raised locally. (fn. 84) In 1908 a Board of Education Scheme created a governing body, including six representatives of the county council, to administer the school together with the Lydney Institute and School of Art. The secondary school was to take children aged from 8 to 19; no limit was set on the catchment area but children from Lydney, Aylburton, and Alvington were to have preference if space became limited. (fn. 85) The buildings were extended in the 1930s, and in 1936 the school had 500 pupils, including some who came from places on the other side of the Severn by railway. In 1932 the name was changed from Lydney Secondary school to Lydney Grammar school, (fn. 86) and it remained an assisted grammar school under the Act of 1944. (fn. 87) Attendance was over 500 when the school closed in 1973. (fn. 88)

The Lydney Institute, providing science and art classes, was opened in 1889 in the new town hall at the market place. (fn. 94) Later known as the Lydney Institute and School of Art and Science, it was by 1894 a recognized centre for training elementary school teachers for the district. (fn. 95) A new building for the Institute was opened adjoining the town hall in 1897 and a new science wing was added (fn. 96) in 1902. Under the Scheme of 1908, mentioned above, the Institute was to provide instruction in art, science, commercial subjects, and domestic science for day and evening students. (fn. 97) Art tuition appears to have predominated later. (fn. 98) In the early 1960s, known as the Lydney School of Art and Evening Technical Institute, it prepared students for art examinations and ran evening classes in commercial and domestic subjects. (fn. 99) In 1966 it was amalgamated with the technical college at Cinderford to form the West Gloucestershire College of Further Education; the art department of the new college remained at Lydney for a few years. (fn. 1)

From: 'Lydney', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 46-84. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23251 Date accessed: 19 October 2012.

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