Reference
SDLutonCSB
Title
Chapel Street Boys, formerly Park Street
Date free text
1877-1918
Production date
From: 1877 To: 1918
Admin/biog history
Opened as Park Street public elementary school on 20 August 1877 ‘understanding it to have been for four months under a PT from Waller Street of which school it was wished to consider it a portion…found room wanting everything essential to work, seats high, desks none, books few & ragged, blackboard broken, began to urge for materials.’
On 28 January 1880 ‘163 boys assembled at Park St …they were transferred to the new schools in Chapel St in the course of the morning.’
Level of description
sub-fonds