Reference
AU10/82/1
Title
Letter from Effie Dibb in Stony Stratford [Buckinghamshire] to Andrew Underwood:
- pleased to see a picture of the school house in Ampthill News of 31 Jul 1956 and was interested to read his account of earlier teachers;
- she was born in the School House in 1870, Walter Henry Anstead being a friend of her mother's brother asked her parents to live with him when he was appointed Headmaster of the National School in 1867;
- Anstead moved from Ampthill to Wisbech [Cambridgeshire] becoming a School Inspector;
- noting the following as schoolmasters in Ampthill: [George Andrew] Ferraby; Clarke; Willets; [Charles] Searle; [Charles Frederick] Golding;
- she remembered the Girls School being built and was a pupil there under Miss Crick who left to become headmistress at Sir Robert Hitcham School in Debenham [Suffolk], the writer going with her and teaching under her, living in the School House with her;
- on gaining her teaching certificate she returned to Ampthill as headmistress of the Infants School, by which time the senior school was mixed; the Infants School occupied its original room, the Girls School being turned into a Parish Room;
- after marriage she lived in Wolverton [Buckinghamshire] but frequently visited her parents who kept a china shop in Dunstable Street [William Stanbridge];
- two of her brothers, Richard and Henry and two sisters Elsie and Bessie began their teaching careers as pupil teachers at Ampthill; Richard later became headmaster of St.Paul's School, Canterbury [Kent] whilst Henry and Elsie taught in London and Elsie went to live in USA; her brother Archie lived in Rochester, New York [USA];
- she now lived with her daughter Mrs.R.J.Fleming
Date free text
20 Aug 1956
Production date
From: 1870 To: 1956
Level of description
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