Reference
E/PS1/2/1
Title
Correspondence file [ex EV17], including the following:
Date free text
1920 - 1930
Production date
From: 1920 To: 1930
Scope and Content
- report of Special Committee on Harpur Trust (HT) regarding salaries and HT deficit;
- Education Committee report on grants to HT secondary schools;
- estimates of income and expenditure of the four HT schools, 1920/21;
- comparative statements showing receipts and payments (per capita) at secondary schools, including HT schools, Luton Boys’ & Girls’ Modern and Dunstable Ashton Grammar School;
- detailed breakdown of payments and receipts for each HT school, 1920/21;
- estimates of income and expenditure for each HT school, 1922/23;
- report on question as to whether Borough of Bedford should help Bedfordshire County Council (BCC) pay towards maintenance of HT schools and on desire of Borough and BCC to avoid the need to go to arbitration [see also E/PS1/3/1];
- report of BCC Special Committee on the Harpur Trust regarding formula for BCC contributions to HT;
- Harpur Trust “Year Card” 1922, giving names and addresses of governors, membership of HT committees and managers of the Harpur Elementary Schools;
- memo of points for consideration regarding BCC contribution to HT;
- notes and memos regarding BCC contribution to HT generally;
- estimated details of tuition fees and free places at each HT school 1923/24;
- copy letter of authority of 1906 from Board of Education to BCC regarding approval of HT borrowing up to £8,250 for the purchase of: a) 4 acres 0 rood 39 peck in Bedford, with messuage, outbuildings and stabling, but excluding part formerly used as a fruit and kitchen garden, and known as Pemberley; b) 0a 2r 25p adjoining a) to the south; c) 2a 2r 11p adjoining a) to the east including part formerly used as a fruit and kitchen garden by owner of a) with the roadway or tradesman’s entrance to a); d) private footpath from the junction of Pemberley Avenue and Pemberley Crescent to Glebe Road, in trust for Bedford School (BS) [see EBE 1-10] with variation orders of 1916 and 1919 regarding payment of loan;
- copy letter of authority of 1914 from Board of Education to BCC regarding approval of HT borrowing up to £1,112 to finance enlargement and improvement of BS workshops;
- copy letter of authority of 1919 from Board of Education to BCC regarding approval of HT borrowing up to £3,000 for the purchase of 34 St.Peter’s Street, Bedford [called by HT “The Moravian Buildings”, see E/PS 1/1/1];
- report of Special Committee on BCC grant aid to HT in 1922/23;
- notes of Harpur Trust Conference with BCC;
- report of chairmen of Beds Education Committee, Higher Education Sub-Committee and County Finance Committee regarding HT;
- memo regarding BCC grants to HT;
- notes of conference between Board of Education and BCC regarding HT grant to pay for free place pupils;
- note that negotiations between BCC and HT on basis of need for annual grant of £10,000 to reduce deficit of £25,000 have changed as the deficit has been reduced;
- notes on free place scheme operated by HT;
- HT resolution approving basis on which BCC grant for 1922/23 was decided but protesting at the formula, with justification of their position;
- detailed notes regarding makeup of HT deficit of £10,362;
- notes dictated by Clerk to the Council that BCC cannot pay free-place pupils’ fees but could make a grant to cover the amount;
- draft joint memorandum of County Accountant and Director of Education regarding BCC grant to HT, 1924/25;
- minutes of HT Estate & Finance Committee;
- article in Bedford Record (18 Mar 1924) - “Save Our Schools! The Harpur Trust in the Crucible”;
- letter from HT illuminating income and expenditure estimates for 1924/25;
- report to Education Committee by chairman of Education Committee and County Finance Committee regarding HT grant aid application 1924/25;
- memos and notes regarding BCC grant to HT for 1925/26;
- notes and correspondence regarding HT opposition to conditions imposed by BCC proposals for future grant aid;
- notes of conference between Mayor of Bedford and BCC Clerk regarding Bedford Borough grants to HT [see also E/PS1/3/1];
- notes for discussion of grant to HT and HT deficit;
- notes of conference between BCC and HT over BCC proposals for grant aid and HT opposition to conditions imposed;
- BCC resolution to accept HT governors’ offer made to allow grant aid to proceed;
- Harpur’s Charity abstract of accounts 1924/25;
- notes of conference between Education Committee and HT in 1928 regarding BCC notice terminating agreement reached in 1925 regarding grant aid;
- HT “Year Card” 1930 including names of governors, membership of committees and provisional dates of committee meetings;
- booklet “Those Conditions! and That Freedom!” written in defence of HT opposition to conditions proposed by BCC in agreement for future grant aid.
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