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was, was enrolled on March 22nd 1867.
According to the Education Report of 1818; Ash had a population
of 500 with a school in which twenty boys were taught. The funds
of this school amounted to £271 10s 0d of which £251 was paid
to the School Master, and the remainder applied for necessary
expenses according to the will of the founder, (Samuel Attwood).
The report goes on to say that there was a school for girls
supported by Voluntary Contributions. This was probably the Dame
School at Mann’s Farm (see Fig
1) about which nothing could be
traced except that there was such a school, where some twelve
girls received instruction in the ‘three R’s’, cooking and
sewing. There was also another day school, which contained |
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47 children (the school at Ridley?). The
report observed "The poor classes have abundant means
of educating their children free of expense".
The next mention of Ash appears in the Education
Enquiry of 1835. By this time the population had increased to
628; there are now four schools ‘one whereof contains 40 males
and is supported by an endowment." This could be the school
at Ridley which later became a National School, (in 1872 there
is specific reference to a National School at Ridley in an
inspector’s report at the Ministry of Education, see Chapter
two), though nothing has been heard of any endowments specific
to Ridley. According to the report ‘there was another school
with 55 females which |