AU10/83/4

Draft of Andrew Underwood's history of Ampthill National School with accompanying letter from G.H.Ashman written on the rear of a circular letter from AU about the draft asking for comments, comments include: - the first Sunday School master he could remember was [Alexander] Pym, all the school masters were also Sunday School masters; - Miss [Martha] Brightman followed Miss Crick as headmistress of the Girls School c.1883, Miss Dickens may have been an assistant teacher or pupil teacher; - Herbert Studman was a keen teetotaller and ran a mission in the old Quaker rooms called Boys Own as well as the Band of Hope; he was also a musician of note; - Charles Searle's housekeeper was a Miss Primmat; - cucumbers mentioned in the text were probably squirting cucumbers from which a medicine was obtained; remuneration of 5/- a day for a boy cutting the cucumbers the writer regarded as far too high, even 5/- a week being generous; - Herbert Studman used the old harmonium to give singing lessons

1956

From: 1880 To: 1956

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Underwood, Andrew Grimmer,
Ashman, G.Henry,
Studman, Herbert,
Pym, Alexander,
Brightman, Martha,
Dickens,
Crick,
Primmat,
Searle, Charles

cucumbers, Ampthill National School, teachers, wages/conditions, Band of Hope, TEMPERANCE, other children's groups, housekeeper, singing, harmonium, AMPTHILL