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Correspondence with Luton Modern Schools regarding general administration, also including such matters as non payments of fees, building maintenance, new premises for girls school including Caretakers house and playing fields as well as material on the following topics/issues/events:

1922 - 1946

From: 1922 To: 1946

- Luton Modern School for Boys annotated school regulations [1922]; - Estimates and particulars for provision of elementary physics laboratory and advanced chemistry laboratory at Boys School [1923]; - Luton Modern School for Girls annotated school regulations, including dress code, and prospectus sheet [1924]; - Memorandum to Mr Graham regarding agreements with parents of scholars at Luton Modern Schools and Cedars School, Leighton Buzzard, regarding breach of contract [1925]; - Acquisition of land in Church Street with plan [1927]; - Purchase of land in Dunstable Road for Boys School playing field [1930]; - Local Education Authority (LEA) opinion on fees, special places, and scales of aid [1932]; - Awards of special places to Hertfordshire pupils [1933]; - Provision of Library and handicraft centre [1934]; - Her Majesty's Inspectorate (HMI) Report on art department in Modern School Evening Institute and LEA concern at unsatisfactory performance given its importance to local industries such as hat making [1934]; - Composition of governing body of both schools [1934 - 1937]; - Resolution of Bedfordshire County Council to convert Modern School buildings in Park Square to Junior Technical School and Senior Evening Institute and acquire land for playing field, provision of a new secondary school for boys in Dunstable Road [1934]; - Stopping up of footpath at Eaton Green and of footpath across site for new Boys Modern School [1935]; - Increase in salary of millinery Instructress at Luton School of Arts and Crafts [1935]; - Provision of engineering workshops and laboratories for Luton Technical Institute in the grounds of Luton Modern School [1935]; - Very detailed report of inspection of Luton High School for Girls by HMI [1935]; - Use of schools for air raid precaution purposes [1938]; - Problem of finding accommodation for the students of the North Western Polytechnic evacuated to Luton [1943]; - Arrangements for using the Girls High School , Luton as an emergency hospital [1946]. [ex EV70]

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Graham,
Bedfordshire County Council

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