Reference
AU10/99/4
Title
Letter from E.A.Yorke in Ampthill to Andrew Underwood:
- all he knew of his old school's history was from hearsay;
- the school was on land belonging to the Dukes of Bedford which reverted to the Duke if the building was not used for educational purposes;
- it was opened by the British & Foreign Bible Society before closure and transfer of pupils to the National School;
- it was then run as a private school by a woman who lived at the corner of Chandos and Crayton Roads until it reopened as a Wesleyan School with Wesleyans and Baptists as Managers, R.Goodman of Flitwick being the last surviving original Manager;
- the Infants Room used to have galleries but these were removed before the writer arrived at the school;
- an ex pupil was Roland Hart, House Surgeon at Bristol Hospital and Gerald King, a local architect; he assumed the logbooks were at Shire Hall [SDAmpthill6-8]
Date free text
17 Jun 1956
Production date
From: 1956 To: 1956
Level of description
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