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in the development of Education in Ash) both
use the term ‘School-master’,2 and there is a
reference in 1818 to ‘a school in which twenty boys are
taught’.3 The theory of an original school
for both sexes is substantiated by the ‘Reports on Charities
– Kent’ printed in 1841, which states: ‘In the school
founded in pursuance of Mr. Attwood’s Will; twenty children of
both sexes, appointed according to the directions therein
specified, were taught together till the year 1814. At that
period the girls were formed into a separate school, which is
supported by voluntary contribution and twenty boys were taken
into the free school……..Both schools were now united with
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In 1814, according to the
references in the National Society files,4 a
school was built, presumably this is the present building, which
until 1874 was lower than the present building and was thatched
(see fig. 8). This school became a National School on January 10th
1816, though there is some confusion over this; by 1846 there
was a school at Ridley which was also a National School, and
there is recorded that on July 22nd 1860 there was a second
union with the National Society, but no mention of any school in
particular, though which ever one it
2 See appendix 2
3 National Society Education
Enquiry 1818.
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