EDUCATION IN BARLICK. A BRIEF OVERVIEW.
Posted: 21 Apr 2012, 07:48
EDUCATION IN BARLICK. A BRIEF OVERVIEW.
[Culled from SCG index 11 February 2005]
The earliest sources of education were either private tutors for the very wealthy or the church who were mainly interested in educating candidates for the priesthood. Occasionally the churches role was taken over by another body, usually a wealthy Guild or Livery Company. I know of one example of this in Stockport where the ‘grammar’ school [literally that, it taught reading and writing in Latin] was in the parish church. Standards dropped and in 1487 a native of Stockport who had done well and become a member of the Goldsmith’s Company, Edmond Shaa, founded Stockport Grammar School, still functioning today. [They drummed the history into us when I was a pupil there] There are many other examples of this all over the country, some founded by the monarch.
In the mid 16th century when the monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII it was realised that by destroying the Roman Church, education had been destroyed as well. There was rush to found new schools, Earby Grammar School was one such.
By the 18th C. apart from the established grammar schools and some specialised institutions such as choir schools etc. there was virtually no education system. Small Dame schools operated in many towns as a private enterprise solution, scholars paying so much a week to be grounded in the three Rs. This was very poor quality. The very wealthy still relied mainly on private tutors.
One source of education that should be mentioned was the Sunday School Movement which started as a reaction by the churches and chapels to the non-existence of any public provision. These started c.1780 and the first is generally thought to be in Gloucester. However the movement spread quickly. By 1805 the Wesleyans had a Sunday school in Earby at the foot of Stoneybank which developed into a day school and in 1872, after the passing of the 1870 Education Act a new school was built. The Earby Board school was opened on New Road in 1897.
In Barlick there is a mention of a private school run by Ann and Richard Waite in Pigot’s directory for 1834. Children would go to these schools as young as two years old [see Horace Thornton evidence in LTP] as they were also a form of child care for working mothers. By 1850 there were two Dame schools in Barlick, these were infant schools. Martha Moore had one in Church Street and Martha Holgate one in Walmsgate. There was a Baptist School in the Old Chapel on Walmsgate and the National School in Butts [now the Pigeon club]. The headmaster at Butts in 1850 was Henry Dugdale who charged pupils three pence a week and also repaired clocks and watches. There is a record that ‘Old Tom Jolly’ [Tom Hewittson] the blacksmith at Butts Top was a reformed man and an Evangelic connected to the Benevolents. When he gave up his trade he had a day school in the cellar of the chapel at Townhead and charged one penny per week.
In 1875 the National School in Butts was condemned. William Bracewell [Billycock] built the school in Fountain Street as a boys school to take the pupils from the National School. The girls and infants went to Rainhall Road School. Known locally as the Brick School its proper title was The Barnoldswick and Coates unity School. At the same time the Wesleyan Sunday School transferred to the old national School in Butts from Jepp Hill and stayed there until a new Sunday School was opened in Mosley Street in 1905.
The opening of York Street CofE school in 1883 and the Gisburn Road Board School in 1907 made the Brick School redundant. It later became the Liberal Club but when the new club was opened in station road it had a variety of uses. In later years it was a working man’s club connected with Ouzledale Foundry but closed in 2002 and reverted to being a nursery school.
School leaving age
1880 Education act set leaving age at 10 years.
1893 EA;11
1899 EA; 12
1902 EA; 13.
1918 EA; 14 years and abolished half timing.
1944 EA; 15 years.
Half time work.
There is some confusion as to when half-timing actually stopped as I have testimony of people going half time after the 1918 Education Act. I dug further into this and found that there was provision in the 1918 Act for half timing to be allowed in agricultural districts until 1922 for specified work on the land. I can only assume that the mill-owners found some way to use this provision to allow half-time working in the mill.
SCG/11 February 2005
[Culled from SCG index 11 February 2005]
The earliest sources of education were either private tutors for the very wealthy or the church who were mainly interested in educating candidates for the priesthood. Occasionally the churches role was taken over by another body, usually a wealthy Guild or Livery Company. I know of one example of this in Stockport where the ‘grammar’ school [literally that, it taught reading and writing in Latin] was in the parish church. Standards dropped and in 1487 a native of Stockport who had done well and become a member of the Goldsmith’s Company, Edmond Shaa, founded Stockport Grammar School, still functioning today. [They drummed the history into us when I was a pupil there] There are many other examples of this all over the country, some founded by the monarch.
In the mid 16th century when the monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII it was realised that by destroying the Roman Church, education had been destroyed as well. There was rush to found new schools, Earby Grammar School was one such.
By the 18th C. apart from the established grammar schools and some specialised institutions such as choir schools etc. there was virtually no education system. Small Dame schools operated in many towns as a private enterprise solution, scholars paying so much a week to be grounded in the three Rs. This was very poor quality. The very wealthy still relied mainly on private tutors.
One source of education that should be mentioned was the Sunday School Movement which started as a reaction by the churches and chapels to the non-existence of any public provision. These started c.1780 and the first is generally thought to be in Gloucester. However the movement spread quickly. By 1805 the Wesleyans had a Sunday school in Earby at the foot of Stoneybank which developed into a day school and in 1872, after the passing of the 1870 Education Act a new school was built. The Earby Board school was opened on New Road in 1897.
In Barlick there is a mention of a private school run by Ann and Richard Waite in Pigot’s directory for 1834. Children would go to these schools as young as two years old [see Horace Thornton evidence in LTP] as they were also a form of child care for working mothers. By 1850 there were two Dame schools in Barlick, these were infant schools. Martha Moore had one in Church Street and Martha Holgate one in Walmsgate. There was a Baptist School in the Old Chapel on Walmsgate and the National School in Butts [now the Pigeon club]. The headmaster at Butts in 1850 was Henry Dugdale who charged pupils three pence a week and also repaired clocks and watches. There is a record that ‘Old Tom Jolly’ [Tom Hewittson] the blacksmith at Butts Top was a reformed man and an Evangelic connected to the Benevolents. When he gave up his trade he had a day school in the cellar of the chapel at Townhead and charged one penny per week.
In 1875 the National School in Butts was condemned. William Bracewell [Billycock] built the school in Fountain Street as a boys school to take the pupils from the National School. The girls and infants went to Rainhall Road School. Known locally as the Brick School its proper title was The Barnoldswick and Coates unity School. At the same time the Wesleyan Sunday School transferred to the old national School in Butts from Jepp Hill and stayed there until a new Sunday School was opened in Mosley Street in 1905.
The opening of York Street CofE school in 1883 and the Gisburn Road Board School in 1907 made the Brick School redundant. It later became the Liberal Club but when the new club was opened in station road it had a variety of uses. In later years it was a working man’s club connected with Ouzledale Foundry but closed in 2002 and reverted to being a nursery school.
School leaving age
1880 Education act set leaving age at 10 years.
1893 EA;11
1899 EA; 12
1902 EA; 13.
1918 EA; 14 years and abolished half timing.
1944 EA; 15 years.
Half time work.
There is some confusion as to when half-timing actually stopped as I have testimony of people going half time after the 1918 Education Act. I dug further into this and found that there was provision in the 1918 Act for half timing to be allowed in agricultural districts until 1922 for specified work on the land. I can only assume that the mill-owners found some way to use this provision to allow half-time working in the mill.
SCG/11 February 2005