AU10/83/3

Letter from G.H.Ashman in Bedford to Andrew Underwood: - his sister could only identify one girl on a photograph as sister of Israel Stanbridge, their father was a coachman and both children died quite young; - he might be able to identify Mrs.Ferraby on one photograph, headmistress of the Girls School at the time was Miss [Martha] Brightman assisted by a Miss Dickens whose father, a small farmer, lived on Woburn Road just beyond the Westminster Pond; - the British School was on The Sands, at the top of the Alameda on Woburn Road, his earliest recollection was when the headmistress was Miss [Ellen] Cowper, it was a school at which Anglican and Nonconformist scholars mixed though later definitely Nonconformist in character; - the Osborne School in Dunstable Street was a private school run by Mrs Wildman, at first a boarding school for the children of missionaries, but later used by children of any parents wishing them "to have a better start in life", two pupil teachers were a Miss New and Miss Eva Swaffield and three scholars were Charles Handscomb, Bobby Vale, who was made to play his mouthorgan in front of the whole class after being caught playing it during lessons and Arthur Peer, who may have been one of the school's first scholars

28 Jun 1956

From: 1870 To: 1956

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Ashman, G.Henry,
Underwood, Andrew Grimmer,
Ferraby,
Stanbridge, Israel,
Dickens,
Brightman, Martha,
Wildman,
Cowper, Ellen,
Swaffield, Eva,
Handscomb, Charles,
Vale, Bobby,
Peer, Arthur Henry

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