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was a National School and is the forerunner
of the present school in Ash. There is mention of two other
schools each with about fifteen children of each sex.5
These last three schools are reported as being ‘supported by
subscription.’ It is impossible to distinguish or place the
latter two schools. One is probably the Dame School mentioned
above, but changed to take boys as well as girls, while the
other could be the school at Berry’s Maple (see Fig
2) which
is known to have been in existence by 1862 under a Mr George
Field, who was a one legged sailor who can be remembered by Mr
Fred Goodwin.6 This school was by 1862 a
boy’s school.
In 1846 Ash was blessed with a large teaching staff
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altogether, consisting of; two paid masters
and one paid mistress, one unpaid master and three unpaid
mistresses. It is not possible to say to which schools they were
attached, except that the school at Ridley had it’s own Master
so presumably these seven teachers were divided between the
three schools in Ash. The only other fact in 1846 is a record of
three schoolrooms and the cost of maintaining the school was
estimated at £74 10s 0d, which was raised by endowment,
subscription and children’s pence.
5 Education Enquiry;
Abstract of the Answers and Returns 24th May 1833 – Printed in
the ‘Minutes of Committee of Council Of Education. 1846.’
Vol. II.
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