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Schools information for Tibshelf and places above it in the hierarchy
Tibshelf
The Staffa Street (mixed) school was built around 1820 and was later enlarged. Average attendance in 1911 was 188 boys and girls.
The Colliery Public Elementary School was built in 1873 for 151 boys, 151 girls and 173 infants.
An Infants' Public Elementary School was built here in 1893 for 173 children.
A "New Infants' School" was built in 1908 for 300 children.
David BEVIS also has a photograph of the Town End Junior School built in 1914 on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.
England
There are several Research Guides from The National Archives giving an excellent overview of the history of education in this country. Also look under keywords 'educational history' and 'schools'.
UK and Ireland
- UK Schools & Colleges Database: provides information on more than 31,000 UK state and independent Schools and Colleges, and over 29,000 UK School, College and University websites (as of June 2016).
- MissingAncestors.com (archived copy) - contains information on staff and students at Industrial/Reformatory Schools & the like during the 19th and early 20th century.
- Anguline Research Archives (archived copy) produce CDs of a number of major public school registers.
- Universities: Brief biographical details of graduates of Cambridge or Oxford Universities are provided in either Alumni Cantabrigienses by JA Venn or Alumni Oxonienses : the Members of the University of Oxford, by Joseph Foster, respectively, which are particularly useful for C of E ministers. They are available in various forms:
- Hard copies are held by many public libraries, including Reading Central Library.
- Cambridge Alumni Database free online from Cambridge University. See also their research guide.
- Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 and 1715-1886 free from Internet Archive.
- Online subscription access from Ancestry: Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 and Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900.