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of Ash might give sufficient
accommodation’.5 There is a second report in 1872
on the accommodation for children within the school. Again Ash
school is inefficient, but if it was placed under inspection and
enlarged, if Ridley School is made efficient by the provision
for separate offices for boys and girls, the appointment of a
certified teacher and if the school was placed under inspection
then no further accommodation will be required.
In the same year, 1872, as a direct result of the
Act, an education office is set up in Dartford and it becomes
expedient to unite Ash and Ridley. Fawkham and Culverstone
taking ten children each, leaving Ash and Ridley only 73 to
accommodate. Ash is not slow to retaliate to these
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Still in 1872 the following letter dated 12th
June is sent to the Board of Education from Rev. R. Salway,
Rector of Ash:
My Lords,
At a meeting of the Ash School Committee held this
day, the notice issued by your Lordships was taken into their
consideration, and I am directed to inform your Lordships that
the existing school accommodation in Ash and Ridley schools
exceeds the number 73 required by that notice.
That a school is now being built at Fawkham and one
is about to be built at Culverstone Green, and that when these
are opened the number at Ash and Ridley school will be reduced.
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